Have you ever lost anything because it had “camo color”?

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Blackpaw

Blackpaw

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Okay, I remember when the everything needs to be “camo-ed” trend happened. Suddenly everything from the binoculars to your lazy boy had to be some type of camouflage pattern.

However, I went against the trend for one simple reason....I was afraid I would lose whatever item I paid extra for because I wanted it in camouflage.

So has you lost or seriously misplaced anything in the wilds because of is camouflaged pattern?
 
It doesn't have to be camouflaged. Years ago a club head flew off a golf club after impact and several of us saw exactly where it went. Shiny silver. Went to the spot and 4 people looked for it for several minutes. Nothing to be seen. After the round I returned to the exact spot and it was lying right where we were walking. I guess it had been covered by a leaf. But camouflaged certainly seems like it would be easier for something to be lost.
 
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Left a camo shotgun in a field where we were cleaning birds. Not realizing it for a hour. We went back and it still took 20 mins to find it, even though the gut piles were right there.

I have heard of a guy doing the same thing but when they came back to find it drove over their gun by accident.

I mostly don’t buy camo items now for long term purchase because patterns and colors change to much over time. 
 
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Never understood camo flashlights. It's dark, you're in a woodsy area. If it falls or drops out of your pocket and isn't turned on and you don't realize it for a minute- how are you going to find it? I have a yellow or silver colored flashlight just for that reason. Buddy was gutting a deer and put his black flashlight down when I came by. Couldn't find it that night, he had to go back the next morning to get it.

Never understood camo underwear either.
 
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I guess you can lose anything regardless the color.

When all that camouflaged stuff came out I remember showing my mom camouflage covered furniture in Cabela’s for sale. My mother said nothing, which usually meant she didn’t approve. She was old school, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all.

Now to put my mother’s view in context. While she was alive and still working she was a fairly well known interior designer in the Idaho / Utah / Wyoming and Montana regions. My mom did work from small residential to large office buildings, and multi-million dollar homes. She was always known for her contemporary and long lasting style, which didn’t involve camouflaged pattern furniture (at least that I can remember).
 
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Early 80s, NE Texas, probably about 2:00 a.m. out coon hunting. One of the dogs didn't come back, so as usual you would take off your shirt, toss it by the truck, come back the next morning and the dog would often be camped on it. Steven tossed his camo t-shirt down. Dog came running. 3 Wheat Lights on our heads and spent close to 20 minutes looking for that shirt..
 
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I don't buy anything camo that I don't intend to wear for that very reason. I've lost too many things that WEREN'T camo including a blaze orange hunting hat and a chrome D cell Mag Light even when I knew about where I set it down. I can lose a white golf ball in the middle of a green fairway!

More important to me is a non-glare finish, preferably in black so I can spot it more easily. If it's metal and goes "clink" I like a rubber coating.
 
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