PowerHunter

[Matt Powers]

I just put out a thread on the "Ask the Avery Pro-Staff" Forum about what color to get my layout in. It sounds like Field Khaki is the way to go. Unfortunately, the store that I'm getting them at is backordered on their Field Khaki PowerHunters until the end of the season. Would Natural Gear work just as well for me? The price difference between Khaki and Nat Gear\Shadowgrass doesn't matter to me. I'm going to hunt alfalfa fields, beans, and picked and chopped corn. I will mostly be hunting cornfields.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks!!
Matt

[Nick James]

I dont think it truly matters once you mud, killerweed, and stubble your blind. I personaly have shadowgrass blinds and i hunt corn 95% of the time, and use the All Terrain killerweed kit.

Hope this helps!

Nick

[Rick Frisch]

I don't think you can go wrong with either. At this time, I would lean more towards Shadow Grass for the conditions you hunt in.

Thanks,

[Josh Brugmans]

Nat Gear blends into everything

[Jason Mears]

You would be ok with either, especially after you mud them.

[Chris Downs]

To me Natgear is the most versatile camo on the market. It blends with most everything and then add some mud and natural cover, and you'll be GONE.

[Dave Tackes]

Matt

I have Field Khaki blinds, Shadowgrass, and Max4 too. All my blinds have been mudded, and I have applied Killer Weed also. I hunt "no till" fields and "min till" fields with both colors, and once mudded properly and stubbled up, they blend equally.

If given the choice that you have, I would give heavy consideration to the Nat Gear. I heard something funny about Nat Gear from some vendor reps about camo patterns - they basically said Nat Gear is probably the best camo out there, but it doesn't have the sales appeal other patterns have. Basically, it doesn't look as cool on the hanger or shelf in the store!

Also, for cut corn and beans, I like the Golden Harvest Killer Weed. The colors blend in nice, and in our part of the midwest (IL and MN) it is not uncommon to see chaf and grass in the rows of corn, or piles of bean stalk chaf in the harvested fields.

My .02

[Jeff Kreit]

If you are going to hunt alot of corn and beans i would go with shadowgrass.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/1goose/30geese081.jpg

[Dave Tackes]

Not trying to steal the thread, but have a question...

Hey Jeff, is that corn field in your pic, a typical MD corn field? I'm not trying to be a wisearse, but ours look a bit different. Here is a pic that I posted before on this site which shows a typical no-till field here in the upper Midwest.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7866/nov406goosehunt005jl4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Sometimes the birds don't want to come into the corn if the stubble is too high! Also, the Ground Force dog blind in the pic had not yet been mudded and KW'd when the pic was taken.

[Jeff Kreit]

Dave for some reason here in the west part of the state the farmers disk the field and put in a cover crop. [ winter wheat ] I love a field like the one in your photo man can you hide!!!!

[Christian Curtis]

I like the NatGear or Field Khaki. To me, these two will blend anywhere with proper KillerWeed placement.

[Nathan Lopez]

It doesn't matter what color you get, once you mud up the blinds they all look the same. Nat gear is great by itself or dressed up to the fullest.

[TxHonker]

Any of the blind patterns will work. You might also find a flat or camo brand spray paint to match you your earth color & try to lightly paint the blinds. We began doing this & it works much better than mudding & it never falls off.

[Greg Owens]

Matt, go with the Shadowgrass or NatGear. The S/G will work well in the fields up here and the NatGear will be great in the sand and lighter soil down by where you live. The good thing is that any of the three colors will work great as long as you take the time to mud and grass the blinds to match the fields you are hunting in. I believe that Cabelas has these in stock for you.

Greg

[KevinSkalicky]

depending on where I'm hunting, If I can see the fabric of my blind it means I didnt brush it in well enough. However, I would recommend shadow grass for beans and disked corn. The dark colors seem to help. I just use khaki with mud and that works well too!

[Dirt_Bag]

our corn fields just have 5 inch stalks (cattle corn) they cut it short and leave nothing

[Erik Nilsson]

alot of the fields we hunt are very similar to jeffs, for that I like the shawdowgrass, our farmers will plant covercrops like winter wheat. In the early season we get in to alfalfa and clover fields alot.
honestly I cant see much of the camo pattern anymore not that Ive had problems with it but its well broke in or seasoned if you will. :D

[chad belding]

We hunt quite a few corn fields out here in the west and the NAtGear blinds have been performing for us day in and day out. With a little mudding and KillerWeed, they blend right in. Please keep us updated on which you go with and let us know how they work out for you guys.

Good Hunting!

Chad Belding
Avery Outdoors

[Mallardbreath]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but at Waterfowl Weekend at St. Cloud Sportsman's Warehouse, I thought I heard Fred say to spray paint your layout instead of using mud. He said something about mud washing off the new denier material??????