First of all, let me congratulate you, Herb, on that very tasty freezer filler. There is nothing like a young doe for good eating.
Some comments regarding the use of camo and blaze orange for deer hunting:
The whole purpose of wearing camo while hunting
is precisely to break up your profile when you are surrounded with foliage or brush. Obviously, standing in the middle of an empty field wearing camo won't do much to break up your profile. Most hunters in this neck of the woods wear camo while deer hunting. Some people wear camo with "blaze orange" as the predominant color and that seems to work for deer hunting too (but makes you highly conspicuous to humans). Most irregular patterns will break up your profile when you are surrounded by similar irregular patterns.
A quote from a study conducted by the University of Georgia:
The research also verified that "Deer are much less sensitive to longer wavelengths than humans". This means that if a blaze orange vest had no brightener dyes and was purely 605 nm blaze orange, the deer would not see it nearly as well as we do. They lack our red cone completely. Their green cone peaks at 537 nm, almost 70 nm away and pigment sensitivity curves drop steeply on the long side. Dramatic as this difference in sensitivity is it is only part of the story. Remember the third finding of this study.
"White-tailed deer would be expected to have dichromatic color vision". Human dichromats called protanopes also lack the red cone function. A human with one dichromatic eye (blue/green cones) and one trichromatic eye (blue/green/red cones) can tell us the difference in color perception. They see blue as blue and the rest of the spectrum from green to red as the color yellow, with their dichromatic eye. Therefore, if blaze orange or most green/brown camouflage is without brightener effect, it is all yellow. It will all blend in well in a world of green leaves, yellow grass, and brown trees, because they too are all yellow.
http://home.comcast.net/~gefferts/deervis.htm
Camo patterns are not the whole answer but they do help. Since deer can detect movement easily and have a sharp sense of smell and good hearing, kudos to Herb for doing many things right to be able to bag that deer. However, Naga, wearing purple tights might not be a good idea:
However, for these animals, blue, violet and near ultraviolet (which is invisible to us because it is blocked by the lens) stand out from the other colors. The colors of earthly objects are mostly browns, tans, greens and yellows. To an animal with dichromatic color vision, a sportsman wearing garments that strongly reflect short wavelength light would stand out against these backgrounds like a ripe red tomato on a green vine.
http://home.comcast.net/~gefferts/deervis.htm
More reading: Basically a reiteration of the same study but explained in laymans terms.
http://www.qdma.com/what-we-do/articles ... -deer-see/
I have no idea what Canada's game laws are like but as far as deer hunting in the US goes, most states mandate the wearing of a blaze orange garment that covers at least 50% of your upper body. You don't have a choice, you have wear some percentage of Blaze Orange if you want to hunt legally.
“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” — Winston Churchill, Oct 29, 1941
