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larcher
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blue clothing and African hunting
02/05/09 04:40 AM

Evoked in the Britanny's thread, is the blue colour adapted for African hunting.

I remember reading something about that in African hunter magazine, I had a go and found it, an article of Dr Don Heath in the number 3 of 2005.

I hope Dr Don Heath won't frown at my quoting him.

"I learned very quickly that most of my parks game scouts struggled to see blue. A man wearing green or even government issue camo they could spot hiding in the thickest bush, but a man wearing blue overalls was far likely to be spotted by me before any of my men. Most of the local poachers knew this and blue denim overalls was the preferred camo. Time and again this happened, and when there was heavy poaching activity and my men wanted to move unseen thy ditched the new army unifroms I had scrounged for them, tossed aside their dark green parks shirts and put on the blue overalls pinched from the mechanical section. In discussing this with many ex soldiers, from both sides in our bush war, it became apparent that plain matt blue was regarded as more difficult to see by african troops that any of the European designed camo. For white soldiers though, it was the exact opposite. If there is such variation in men......what about animals."

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blue clothing and African hunting	larcher	02/05/09 04:40 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	rscott	02/05/09 06:33 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	gryphon	02/05/09 07:08 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	tophet1	02/05/09 07:36 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	EricD	02/05/09 08:18 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	9.3x57	02/05/09 11:50 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	Ripp	02/05/09 12:09 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	NitroX	03/05/09 04:03 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	9.3x57	03/05/09 11:47 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	NitroX	04/05/09 02:53 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	9.3x57	04/05/09 05:46 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	EricD	04/05/09 06:58 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	9.3x57	04/05/09 07:38 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	tophet1	04/05/09 08:07 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	NitroX	04/05/09 01:48 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	9.3x57	04/05/09 01:55 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	NitroX	04/05/09 01:59 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	Bonde	08/05/09 03:37 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	Anonymous	10/05/09 05:32 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	450_EXPRESS	04/05/09 12:53 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	9.3x57	02/05/09 12:16 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	Ripp	02/05/09 11:20 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	beleg2	02/05/09 12:37 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	JohnWilkes	10/05/09 06:16 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	9.3x57	10/05/09 11:21 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	grandveneur	11/05/09 12:04 AM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	ozhunter	10/05/09 09:18 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	NitroX	10/05/09 10:41 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	9.3x57	02/05/09 01:51 PM
Re: blue clothing and African hunting	JPK	02/05/09 01:28 PM
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