# Oh no! Day-Glo Cammo!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-day-glo-cammo/46870>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 22, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-day-glo-cammo/46870 "2000-12-22T16:52:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-day-glo-cammo/46870/1 "2000-12-22T16:52:27Z")

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I gotta ask. I’m not trolling here. No mention of Braille on drive-thru ATM’s or anything like that. I just cannot believe that Day-Glo camouflage hunting outfits are a simple product of inertia. (I.e. hunting outfits traditionally being cammo, combined with new safety laws/rules on visibility while blasting Bambi) Are deer colorblind enough so that they’re still less likely to spot the fearless hunter in bright orange cammo than in more fashionable solids?

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-day-glo-cammo/46870/2 "2000-12-22T17:08:57Z")

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Short answer, yes, deer are that color blind.

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**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-day-glo-cammo/46870/3 "2000-12-22T17:18:35Z")

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and it makes it ever so much safer for those of use who can detect “hunter flame orange.”

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**Author:** ![john\_e\_wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@john\_e\_wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_e_wagner)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-day-glo-cammo/46870/4 "2000-12-22T18:44:09Z")

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espcially when you consider the average hunting behavior…Hey that bush moved, BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM. “Damn gubiment only letting me have four shots!” And yes I do hunt, but only with a bow.

The orange is to let other hunters know that you are there.

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**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-day-glo-cammo/46870/5 "2000-12-22T18:50:44Z")

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I get the orange. It’s the orange-cammo combo I found puzzling. But Telemark’s answer seems to indicate that it is a rational combination: Day-Glo for us to see, cammo for deer to miss.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-day-glo-cammo/46870/6 "2000-12-23T04:42:28Z")

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Most animals, deer and humans included, use pattern recognition to identify what they’re seeing. Tests done with humans have shown that disguising an object’s shape by painting it with multiple colors is more effective than a single color camouflage that leaves the basic shape of the object intact.