Auric Camo Pattern Duck Hunter
Auric Camo Pattern Duck Hunter

在线玩老虎机 Launches New-For-2023 AURIC Waterfowl Pattern

在线玩老虎机 Launches New-For-2023 AURIC Waterfowl Pattern

By: Jace Bauserman听 听 August 3, 2023.

Camo gets a lot of love, and rightly so. After all, quality camo keeps us hidden from the eyes of our quarry and helps us fill the freezer. You have a winning combo when outdoor clothing manufacturers blend a top-tier camo pattern with excellent apparel, and听在线玩老虎机听has done just that with their popular Wicked Wing line of waterfowl apparel.听

在线玩老虎机 has been winning at the outdoor clothing/camo game for years. Like any forward-moving manufacturer, 在线玩老虎机 continues to move the deception needle further while providing hunters with garments that promise maneuverability, comfort, heat control, odor control, etc.听

AURIC - A Waterfowling Win

AURIC - A Waterfowling Win

在线玩老虎机鈥檚 latest camo was crafted specifically for the waterfowl crowd. Dubbed听AURIC, this pattern utilizes a combination of naturally occurring colors and abstract shapes that cause maximum eye disruption in waterfowl.

The brains behind 在线玩老虎机鈥檚 latest waterfowl concealment system, Russ Jones, took no shortcuts when creating the pattern. Jones and his team wanted to ensure the pattern did what it was designed to do 鈥 fool the beady eyes of waterfowl 鈥 before bringing it to market.听

Hunter in Auric walking through decoys
Hunter in Auric walking through decoys

鈥淚 think we have something with this pattern,鈥 said Jones. 鈥淥f course, it looks great, but for a camouflage pattern to work, it has to do more than look great. Animals don鈥檛 see things the same way we do. It鈥檚 nice when a camo pattern is racy and has excellent eye appeal that grabs people鈥檚 attention, but the pattern is worthless if it doesn't conceal."

According to Jones, you can鈥檛 create a waterfowl-specific pattern like a big-game one.听

Why?

鈥淲hen we created our OVIX pattern in 2022, which is a Western pattern, we wanted to choose colors that picked up on surrounding colors,鈥 Jones said. 鈥淲hen you're looking at a haze in the sky, like smoke, and the sky is kinda red, the lightest color in your clothes will pick up that same color. The colors in our OVIX pattern will pick up on other colors in the landscape and disrupt an animal鈥檚 view. However, we couldn鈥檛 take the same approach with waterfowl because the viewpoint of birds looking at the pattern is aerial.鈥澨

Hunter in Auric Camo carrying Mallard ducks
Hunter in Auric Camo carrying Mallard ducks

Jones and the 在线玩老虎机 team did a ton of research and spent a lot of time looking down on听,听, and various other environments waterfowl frequent.听

鈥淲e quickly realized there is no defined horizontal plane and no vertical plane when looking from above,鈥 Jones continued. 鈥淲e had to create shapes that would disrupt the eyesight of the birds horizontally and vertically.鈥

Jones went on to explain that with horizontal and vertical shapes within the pattern and natural color palates you see in phragmites, marshlands, and tall grasses, the pattern causes maximum disruption to the eyes of waterfowl.

鈥淭he result is a pattern that has proven to confuse the eyes of waterfowl and keep those eyes from pinpointing hunters,鈥 Jones added.

Another benefit of AURIC is that when you get one of those special waterfowl days we all dream of 鈥 fog rolling in, clouds hanging low, snow spitting 鈥 the pattern disappears among the frag.听

鈥淲hen you get the right optical lighting,鈥 Jones said, 鈥渢he pattern doesn鈥檛 disrupt the birds鈥 eyes; the design acts like a mirage and makes the hunter part of the environment. The hunter will virtually disappear when the right optical lighting conditions are present.鈥澨

Hunter in Auric hunting geese in the snow
Hunter in Auric hunting geese in the snow

Unlike other camo patterns, AURIC isn't identifiable as a micro or macro camo pattern, which is good. You can often look at a camo pattern and see the micro and larger macro shapes. AURIC has an excellent sense of flow, which helps with eye disruption and blending.听

鈥淎s mentioned, we looked at the AURIC pattern from above. We looked at a hunter in a duck blind in a marsh and then took those colors and the natural shapes we found and set them in horizontal and vertical patterns to ensure the birds couldn't pick up on a certain plane and their eyes would be bouncing around it. All the testing shows we created an ultra-effective waterfowl pattern that will serve hunters remarkably well.鈥澨

The ink used in the AURIC printing process is also a big part of the pattern鈥檚 effectiveness. According to Jones, waterfowl don鈥檛 see in the same gray tones as big-game animals. For this reason, the ink used in AURIC was tested under various lighting scenarios, with UV rays bouncing off it to ensure the ink produced no ultraviolet color outlines that would stand out to waterfowl.听

Less Stick & Leaf

Less Stick & Leaf

In recent years, we've seen a massive change in the look of camouflage patterns. For decades, stick-and-leaf patterns from听听补苍诲听听seemed to dominate. While both manufacturers still make remarkable patterns that work exceptionally well, there has been a paradigm shift in the camo world.听

Auric Camo Pattern Hunter brining back ducks
Auric Camo Pattern Hunter brining back ducks

In recent years, we've seen a massive change in the look of camouflage patterns. For decades, stick-and-leaf patterns from听听补苍诲听听seemed to dominate. While both manufacturers still make remarkable patterns that work exceptionally well, there has been a paradigm shift in the camo world.听

Today, digital patterns continue to gain traction, and more and more consumers are going the digital pattern route.

Jones believes this is due to the disruptive effect digital patterns create.听

鈥淲hen looking at a mimicry pattern like a stick-and-leaf, the goal is to make the pattern look exactly like what's behind it, and it's tough to do that because environments change all the time. These patterns look significant to us and have solid shelf appeal, but because it鈥檚 a mimicry pattern, it鈥檚 difficult for the pattern to be versatile.

鈥淲ith a digital or disruptive pattern, the eye sees a shape in nature that it could pinpoint as a shape it could see in a tree, in the marsh, etc. With a digital pattern, you are tricking the eyes. Big-game animals see in a gray color palette, so they don鈥檛 pick up on the sticks and limbs as much as humans. The disruptive patterns confuse their eyes and, in my opinion, keep the hunter concealed much better.听

鈥淲aterfowl will pick up on ultraviolets, and with the correct ink and horizontal and vertical shapes blended with natural color patterns, AURIC confuses the birds鈥 eyes.鈥

Waterfowl Hunter in Auric gloves holding ducks
Waterfowl Hunter in Auric gloves holding ducks

Final Thoughts

Final Thoughts

This season when you head to the field for ducks and geese, look for top-end clothing items like the听在线玩老虎机 Insulated Wader Jacket,Rain Shell Jacket,Insulated Bib, and other Wicked Wing gear cloaked in AURIC. Not only will they keep you warm and comfortable, they鈥檒l also help you finish more birds due to the disruption and disappearance the pattern creates.听