Face coverings...do you use one pesting?

[Blackpaw]

Well, I am always one looking for new tips and tricks. For a few more weeks I live vicariously through YouTube for my pesting outlet. I see many Brits using face covering while pesting on farms. So this got me thinking....Is this a practice used in USA while out pesting on a farm / dairy to reduce your silhouette? 

If you do use a face covering, why and why do you see value in it?

 

[airgunmike56]

I do not shoot crows myself, But I read a study done where wild crows could recognize a face after a few years and pass it on to its off spring, I can find it if you want to read it,,, 

I do not wear any kind of camouflage or face covering. I do hide behind a camouflage cover.

Mike

 

[Gerry52]

Always have, still do! I've had ground squirrels pop up 10 yds away & still not recognize a human with a gun is there. Works for me. Also have a camo poncho that works GREAT if I'm not wearing camo clothes. About $26 on Ebay. Really light weight & effective. 

 

[L.Leon]

Don't use one as its too stifling for me. While pesting in the winter a generic balaclava. Otherwise no face cover.

 

[crazyhorse]

Naw... I'm to far away when I shoot them.

 

[thumper]

I don't understand the fascination the Brits have with camo. They put it on everything, and dress up like snipers and cover their gun in camo to shoot rats and birds in a barnyard. Oftentimes, when they aren't even around foliage. 

I've hunted all my life, and have never found going to those extremes necessary, even when in the woods actually hunting. I wear a face mask when bow hunting deer or turkey on the ground, and that's about it. 

For pesting? In a place where there are normally people anyway? No way. 

 

[AncientSword]

I wear a mesh camo head and face cover. It’s as much to keep mosquitoes away as anything else, but I try to always wear it. It’s not really hot since it’s mesh, but the mosquitoes can be really bad here. I wear a camo fleece style balaclava in the winter.

 

[davelarson]

My friend was in a deer blind bow hunting and in full camo including the face mask when a small hawk flew up and landed right in front of her, then suddenly flew at her face because it saw eye movement and thought it was prey! Never saw her at all even after it landed. Scared the hell out of both of them lol! 

 

[MACTEN]

I wear a Frankenstein's monster mask. It gets hot in summer months but does the trick.

 

[SHOMER]

Aye those Brits are an odd sort and they do march funny, nix on the Frito Bandio dress up.

 

[Bob-in-WV]

Years ago I was sitting in a tree stand in full camo and a big red tailed hawk dived at me too. I jumped up and that hawk put the brakes on in mid air. Scared me too. He was after my eyes, I was sure.

 

[JohnnyPDX]

Never anything, camo spooks them

 

[AirShot]

I bought a camo "bug suit" many years back, it is a mesh light weight jacket with a head cover and is made to fluf out away from your skin. By having the mesh away from the skin, the mosqitoes and flies cant bite. Very airy for summer wear but can be worn over a sweat shirt or coat for colder weather. Breaks up the human form and keeps me from bug bites. Wore it thru many field target matches when bugs were present. I would be busy hitting targets while others were swatting bugs!

Use it in my north forty when pursuing pests, often the critters never see me until it is to late.

 

[GBGUNNER]

I use a wide brim straw hat with camo mesh scarf draped over the entire thing covering my head and over my shoulders( I can see through it). I have observed that the more my head and body look like a shapeless blob the more squirrels I had a chance at. I once stood dead still 2 ft from a squirrel on a limb. I got tired after watching it chew buds of my tree and moved. It left after I swung a stick at it. Camo is for hiding from people and animal that can see some color. Being the approximate shape of a log or boulder and covering my movements like a mini blind has been effective for pesting for me.

 

[beeza12]

We Brits may be odd bur we shoot loads of pests, using 12ft lb rifles. I always use a camo face cover, full camo coat and gloves. Two hide poles, a length of camo netting with a scrim net and I'm enjoying myself.

 

[Kevin23]

If you are shooting pests in a farm yard, those birds are used to seeing people all day. Just dress like a farmer or worker and you will do better. Walk around casually, and dont stare at the birds. If you look like everyone else, they wont care about you at all. If you look different or threatening, they will spook... birds are far from stupid, and a dark moving camo blob in a farm yard is totally foreign to them, stands out like a sore thumb. When I was young I used to shoot pigeons all day long on my uncles farms, used to try and hide with camo and they would spot you every single time. Wear blue jeans and a red shirt and you can walk right under them. 

 

[beeza12]

Camo or not the secret is to stay still.

 

[JeffB1961]

some folks seem to just like dressing up to go play GI Joe sniper on critters . 

everything isn't for everybody .........

 

[N2 Shooter]

When I go to public hunting grounds, I always wear a face covering such as a camo scarf and skull cap. Today, I was at my rental property to keep the starlings population down, and I had on a black jacket, black face gaitor and a black skull cap. A cardinal almost landed on my shoulder, twice as I sat in a premanufactured treehouse with my AEA HPBP! That certainly has never happened before!

 

[Blackpaw]

Thanks everyone for the different points of views and how you approach camo. When I am back in USA and find some permissions for pesting / hunting. At the permissions I might see what works at each permission, aka with and without camo. Not a from truck shooter, I prefer the walk around exercise, and yes, I do use rubber boots