Huntech Camouflage Patterns

	Bushland Habitat™ New Zealand forests are dominated by small leaf shrubs, and small trees interspersed by larger trees, with small leaves, creating light open canopies. Our higher rainfall and milder climate makes our forests have a much more lush foliage dominated by evergreens. The effect is a much greener environment, with hundreds of shades of green. Bushland™ was very demanding to design because of the large variety of forest types which are hunted in New Zealand. We identified plant foliage which is found in most hunting areas as our foreground elements, and the same with the intermediate ground, to formulate a pattern which will work in most bush areas.
	High Country Habitat™ Huntechs first attempt at an alpine camouflage was our Tussock Camo which we released in 1992. Based on the old woodland type pattern we changed the colours to suit our alpine tussock areas. This proved to be very popular in the Central North Island, the South Island and Australia. Alpine hunting areas are dominated by snow tussocks often interspersed with alpine plants and lichen covered rocks. The overall appearance of High Country Habitat™ at a distance is yellow green interspersed by the darker rocky background. Up close it has the fine detail of an alpine rock garden.
	Waterfowl Habitat™ The waterfowl hunter is at the great disadvantage, because his prey is flying high above getting a birds eye view of the surroundings, plus they can see any colour variations. The most striking thing we found when studying our photo library of wet lands was that the overall effect is much greener than we thought. The overall effect was a layer of green new growth of flax, rushes and grasses laying over the yellow and brown dead and dry under growth. The fact we can use thousands of colours means we can produce a huge range of subtle shades, which gives much greater depth, detail and clarity to the pattern, to fool those wily mallards.
	Hi Viz Habitat™ In designing Hi Viz Habitat™ there are two important considerations; Firstly that it is highly visible to humans, but also it is not to the animals you are hunting. There is a strong view amongst some of the most successful hunters that animals are alerted by blaze orange garments. We all accept these animals only see in gray scale, but many people believe the stark difference between the orange and the natural surroundings some how make it stand out to the animals. We under took a testing program to produce Hi Viz Habitat™, by trialing various patterns on deer at a local deer farm. The final analysis was that a fine mottled pattern without a lot of solid colour was much more effective than a bold solid pattern. Our Hi Viz Habitat™ is quite different from most, the result of our trials, and features a range of black and greys giving a diffuse overall bush effect.
	Gumtree Habitat™ It wasn’t our intention to produce an Australian camouflage last year but with the weight of enthusiasm and encouragement by a large number of our Australian customers, we pulled out all the stops to make it happen! To produce Gumtree Habitat™ we relied a 100% on input from Australian hunters. They provided us with photographs, conceptual ideas and the usual sheep jokes, to create this camouflage, so any inaccuracies are their fault! LOL! Considering the limited material we used to produce this pattern it has incredible depth and perspective. Gumtree Habitat™ garments available only in Australia. We have recieved considerable feed back and suggestions, and have improved and altered the pattern and colours to reflect these.