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View Poll Results: Best way to conceal your face while bow hunting?
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Face paint?
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Balaclava?
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Pull up mesh or handerkerchief?
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35.53% |
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08-19-2014, 07:54 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Beaumont
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Hiding your face while hunting?
Hi everyone. I was just wondering what methods everyone else uses to conceal their face while hunting? I have tried face paint and found it messy and covering my face with a balaclava or a handkerchief would seem to interfere with my anchor points. So I was wondering what if anything other people were using to conceal their face while bow hunting?
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The kill is the satisfying, indeed essential, conclusion to a successful hunt. But, I take no pleasure in the act itself. One does not hunt in order to kill, but kills in order to have hunted. Then why do I hunt? I hunt for the same reason my well-fed cat hunts...because I must, because it is in the blood, because I am the decendent of a thousand generations of hunters. I hunt because I am a hunter.- Finn Aagard
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08-19-2014, 08:20 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Calgary
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I grow facial hair.
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08-19-2014, 08:25 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Abbotsford BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lr1000
I grow facial hair.
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08-19-2014, 08:32 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lr1000
I grow facial hair.
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Yup,'that's the way to go!
I also wear a Balaclava when it's -30
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08-19-2014, 08:36 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: In the 400's
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lr1000
I grow facial hair.
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and I squint, eye movement I find gives you away up close.
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08-19-2014, 08:57 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Look behind you :)
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Originally Posted by pottymouth
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and I squint, eye movement I find gives you away up close.
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A beard a face mask and don't make eye contact are all key things to think about.
LC
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08-19-2014, 08:57 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Edmonton, AB
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I tan so dark during the summer...and grow a beard.. that i have no need.. lol
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08-19-2014, 09:25 PM
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Location: Beaumont
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Originally Posted by Alberta Bigbore
I tan so dark during the summer...and grow a beard.. that i have no need.. lol
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I wish. My complexion would be more suited to coyote hunting in January. Lol
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The kill is the satisfying, indeed essential, conclusion to a successful hunt. But, I take no pleasure in the act itself. One does not hunt in order to kill, but kills in order to have hunted. Then why do I hunt? I hunt for the same reason my well-fed cat hunts...because I must, because it is in the blood, because I am the decendent of a thousand generations of hunters. I hunt because I am a hunter.- Finn Aagard
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08-19-2014, 09:25 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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I only wish I could go grow a beard good enough for concealment. Ha! Ha! not really, easier to deal with messy face paint 2 months out of the year then shave every day 12 months a year. I could go the entire hunting season without shaving to have a ressemblance of a goattie. And no, Iam not a teenager, more like 40.
Beard would help me stay warm in the winter.
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08-19-2014, 09:38 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Edmonton
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I normally wear a bug net and never see animals haha
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08-19-2014, 09:56 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Stony Plain
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I'm not one of those guys that grow facial hair on my cheeks lol.
So even with some facial hair I still use either tight fitting face mask or face paint.
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08-20-2014, 07:14 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Usually the office, but the bush when I can
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Can't grow facial hair for work reasons (client facing) and have tried the face mask too many times....
This year, I found some easily applied face camo, so that's what I'm going with (not sure how easy to come off - will have to try it on/off tonight)
Besides, face camo for us guys is the man's equivalent of blush for girls... Why should they get all the fun? Where's the equality? (Joking)
J.
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08-20-2014, 08:06 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Wainwright
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 Over the years I have tried them all...hated the paint the most..most masks interfere with my anchors..beard drives me nuts..
Found a very breatable form fitting head sock called Camo Spandoflage-Headnet...made by Great Day Inc
and instead of cutting custom eyeholes, I cut a slit across the eyes...this allows me to pull the mask down under my chin when action is slow...and when its hot I simply ull up and only eyes are exposed...doesnt interfer with my shooting at all...
It is air conditioned, breathable and it keeps bugs off...
http://www.vendio.com/stores/SgtReed...-/lid=10435571
Neil
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08-21-2014, 10:46 PM
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Paint is the way to go. On more than one occasion I have had a mask louse up my anchor point or worse, partially block my dominant eye.
New stuff is easier to wash off.
It would take me about 10 years to even grow a beard that would be visible...
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08-21-2014, 10:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Cold Lake
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Use your bow.
Merely hold your bow in front of your face, cams/limbs/wheels/strings provide great face cover...and nothing to alter your shooting form or anchor point.
Try it. Its free too...comes with the bow purchase price.
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08-21-2014, 11:13 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Alberta
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I stock up on tubes of paint after Halloween at Wallmart every year. It's a buck a tube, goes on easy, stays on ,washes off easy and NO SMELL to it. Much cheaper and better than the official Hunting face paint.
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08-22-2014, 09:39 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Edmonton, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ThreeD
Use your bow.
Merely hold your bow in front of your face, cams/limbs/wheels/strings provide great face cover...and nothing to alter your shooting form or anchor point.
Try it. Its free too...comes with the bow purchase price.
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Lol!
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08-22-2014, 11:30 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Wainwright
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ThreeD
Use your bow.
Merely hold your bow in front of your face, cams/limbs/wheels/strings provide great face cover...and nothing to alter your shooting form or anchor point.
Try it. Its free too...comes with the bow purchase price.
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HAVE you not seen some of the PIMPED OUT bows here.... lol
More colors and brighter than any commerial DANGER signs you can buy...lol
Neil
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