Hunting expert Ken Nordberg recommends a ghillie suit along with your blaze orange clothing to best conceal yourself from deer this season.

This year I’m testing an additional method of concealing myself. I’m going to wear a blind. Think about this. What is a blind? When hunting older bucks today, it’s something that makes it very difficult for approaching, much-experienced older bucks to identify you and spot your necessary movements, such as slowly scanning the area in front of you or easing up your rifle or bow to take aim and fire.

Today, there’s no end to kinds of deer hunting blinds now available in sporting goods stores. The trouble is, either they can’t be silently moved about the woods and set up for use during a hunting season (forcing you to be a one-stand hunter which is bad for hunting older bucks), or they in no way resemble (or smell like) natural cover where I hunt, making them easy for smart old bucks to spot safe distances away and avoid.

Today, I much prefer natural, unaltered, naturally smelling cover as a blind, but I must admit, it isn’t always available at just the right spots. For this reason, under my camo-blaze-orange cap and vest and over my pants, I plan to wear my new blind, or carry it in my pack to pull on before approaching a stand site. It’s called “a ghillie suit.” It’s a dark, loose fitting, net-like jacket with a hood and pants covered with loosely-sewed-on, natural-appearing leaves that break up or make fuzzy the outlines of my otherwise readily recognized (by older bucks) human silhouette.

More than anything I have ever worn while hunting deer, the suit I selected will make me blend well with surrounding natural forest cover where I hunt. While seated on my stool, I’ll appear more like a squirrel nest with a splash of camo-blaze orange in front than a human. And to a deer in front of me, that splash will not be unlike red leaves of a young sugar maple or red oak in fall where I hunt. I can’t wait to try it.

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