CAMOUFLAGE  COVER  Generally,  there  are  two  kinds of cover: primary and
secondary. Primary cover is anything that conceals your whole body, whereas
secondary cover just breaks up your outline. If you're stalking upright  in
thick  woods,  you  may  use  trees  as primary cover, occasionally peeking
through the secondary cover afforded by  leaves  and  branches.  If  you're
crawling  or  on  your  belly,  try to conceal most of your body behind the
primary cover offered by bushes and grasses, while keeping an  eye  on  the
animal  through  the  secondary  cover  near  the tops of the vegetation. A
general rule of thumb is to stay behind primary  cover  whenever  possible,
and to utilize secondary cpver mainly for observation. However, this is not
always necessary and in some cases not even possible. If you move carefully
(using  wind,  shadows, and other forms of camouflage), you can get by with
just enough cover to break up your outline. Before you even start to stalk,
scan the terrain and decide how you can best approach  the  animal  without
being  seen. Decide what trees or bushes will hide you or at least break up
your outline, and think about how much effort it will take to  get  through
them.  If  you're  stalking through an area with very thin cover, such as a
grassy meadow, you're probably going to have to be down on hands and  knees
most  of  the  time.  Thick brush affords good cover, but its often next to
impossible to work through it without getting tangled or causing a  lot  of
noise.  Try to find a middle ground between these two extremes. If you have
to stalk through thick brush, do so with the utmost  care.  Don't  jar  any
branches  or leaves. Step over small obstacles and go around large ones. If
you can't do either, look for holes in the vegetation and slide your  limbs
through  them.  If  you  have  to  stalk  upright  through an open area, go
carefully, paying particular attention  to  sound,  movement,  shadow,  and
sunlight.

