Interesting…what kind of paint could be used on a down jacket that won’t flake off or cause issue?
The first wolverine that I saw in the wild was one year when a friend an I were hunting sheep in one of Montana's Unlimited tag units. We were glassing form a ridge above timberline and there were 3 mule deer bucks bedded on a knob about 100 yds below us. They all were staring at something below them. As we watched them, a wolverine was working his way up to them. When the wolverine got about 30 yards from them, a forkhorn buck stood up and chased the wolverine away.
Ultimately, THIS! Camo gives you some ability to blend in but you can't fix dumb. If you are sheep hunting and want to close the distance, blending in matters especially when you have little cover. Most of the times we closed distance, we weren't in the sheep's view so its not like what you wear matters but there has also been times where to get just ten yards closer for a better set up mattered and you could be noticed because they could see you. I rather reduce the number of factors that blow a hunt than be limited.
i was told that too but it is really depending the experiences they had like hunting pressure, predator attacks or just hikers with dogs. the return of wolf like in europe have put moufflons (they are sheep too) and chamois more nervous than ever. here in the yukon older hunters were telling me that consider a sheep fitted with a 8x binoculars i will say that in some aeras in the yukon it is more a 16x while in some others with less human presence like in the richardsons where i climbed they were more curious than nervous even during hunting season as there is 2 tags issued and most of the time no harvest. another good example sheep mountain in kluane lake area (not open except by poachers) except during lambing season you can go close to them and they will not run away from you but will run from wolf or grizzly very fast and it is not the color that make run away but the body shape.
Years ago on one of my Montana Unlimited Unit sheep hunts, as I was climbing up a mountain, just inside the timber on one side of an avalanche chute, and with my Golden Retriever next to me, I came upon two legal rams. I had killed a full curl ram in that unit the previous year (that was before the 7 year wait rule) so I didn't really want to shoot one of those rams.
The ram that I had passed on the year before.
I guess I could be called a veteran as I have killed 7 of them. I would wear black over white for dang sure. Some of those rocks in Alaska are pretty dark and black would fade into them if you were at the bottom of a drainage. You could have the most adaptive camo for the terrain and if I sheep sees you move it’s over . Hell my first sheep was 37 years ago and I had on jeans and a green Remington fleece jacket. Point is if you have good gear then wear it….just keep out of sight as much as possible
Just about any color, including many of the camouflages will stick out if your are skylined. Black is almost completely hidden in shadows, which, depending on the terrain, can be very common.
i had my first chamois with dark black wool pants (bonneval one) and yellow bellay jacket but luckily for me they saw me after the shot ...
If you ain't huntin' with a dog, cowboy hat and a flannel are you even alive?Years ago on one of my Montana Unlimited Unit sheep hunts, as I was climbing up a mountain, just inside the timber on one side of an avalanche chute, and with my Golden Retriever next to me, I came upon two legal rams. I had killed a full curl ram in that unit the previous year (that was before the 7 year wait rule) so I didn't really want to shoot one of those rams.
They just stood there looking at me and were close enough that I picked up a ping pong size rock and threw it underhand and hit one of the rams, and they ran up the hill.
There was an outfitter with a guided hunter also hunting that mountain, and a few minutes after the rams ran up the avalanche chute I heard a shot, and a couple of minutes later both rams ran back down the hill, stopping about 30 yards above me.
I could see that one of the rams had been gut shot and it's small intestines were dragging on the ground. I didn't want to see it suffer, so I gave it a killing shot. I then went up the mountain and found the outfitter and his guide and hunter and took them down to the dead ram.
The next year I went back to that mountain and killed the other ram. That was the last year that that unit was Unlimited.
The ram that I had passed on the year before.
