Deer blind camo paint color

[don1911]

I am building wooden deer blind and want to paint it camo. Paint it a basic lighter colored green maybe? Then rattle can darker green, brown, gray,and black over leaves I pick up off the ground. That sound about right? I'm wondering what colors would work best, especially the base color of what I think should be a lighter green?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Tycer]

You can go just black and white. Or pink and black. Anything but yellow and blue or UV. http://www.huntingnet.com/articles/arti ... les_id=579

[Pete44ru]

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While the wooden deer stands I've built were usually actually tree stands, I always made them of non-pressure-treated lumber waaaayy ahead of deer seson, to allow the wood to weather/age/color naturally.

In the end, the wood looked pretty much like tree trunks.

I usually cut a few leafy or piney branches just prior to the hunt, for weaving/tying to any straight parts/sides extant, to camo the un-natural lines.

I suppose a semi-solid deck stain (like Cabot's) could be used to accellerate the process - but don't forget to do the bottom if you're doing an aerial blind (in a tree, etc).




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[Rusty]

Krylon makes a line of camo paints for just such an application. I think the main difference is that they are flat finish paints instead of gloss finish. They have them in green, black brown, sand, and may be something else. IIRC I saw Lowes has a store brand of the same thing for about a buck and a half less per can.

[vancelw]

On private land I'd paint it any color I wanted (except blue as mentioned before) as long as it was a broken pattern.
On public land or in a congested area I'd paint it blaze orange and break it up.

Deer don't care what color it is mostly. Just break up it's outline and keep the chemical smells to a minimum. Secure anything that will make noise in the wind.

[Pisgah]

Doesn't matter if it's solid blaze orange. Once they are accustomed to it being there -- and they will know it is there even if you Realtree it -- they will ignore it.

[don1911]

Not painting it for the deer. Painting it for me on my property. But would like to hide it from tresspassing vandalizing area children. With paint.

[Mescalero]

It is a shame you have to resort to that.

[Gobblerforge]

Brown with a few black, vertical stripes. Gone.
Just me.
Gobbler

[RIHMFIRE]

down here in florida i have painted feeders and blinds a palmetto green and then
taken the actual palmetto frawn...put it up against the feeder and painted between
the frawns black, and other green colors , for depth....