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Posted: 9/16/2014 6:18:37 PM EDT

Hi, I was thinking a bit about what is my favorite camouflage.

I want to know not only of effectiveness but also out of pure aesthetics, what looks the most badass?

Of course it is very hard to have a camouflage that is good everywhere and in every season. Therefore I’ll let you name different camouflages for spring, summer, fall, winter and desert. Fill in the list below and if you wan please motivate!

Effectiveness:

Spring:
Summer:
Fall:
Winter:
Desert:

Aesthetics:

Spring:
Summer:
Fall:
Winter:
Desert:

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:19:16 PM EDT

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OD green

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:19:40 PM EDT

[#2]

Tardflage...

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:19:58 PM EDT

[#3]

Depends on the basement decor.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:20:13 PM EDT

[#4]

OD green with local dirt on it.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:20:46 PM EDT

[#5]

Brown;unwashed,dirty brown.

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Posted: 9/16/2014 6:21:29 PM EDT

[#6]

I wear tiger stripe underwear when I surf arfcom.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:21:38 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2014 6:23:49 PM EDT

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granted OD green was way before my time but we shouldn't have gotten rid of it

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:23:52 PM EDT

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Earth tones with squirts of bleach solution for fade, patches and light spots

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:24:06 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2014 6:24:22 PM EDT

[#11]

Multi doge

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:24:58 PM EDT

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also skulls would be pretty effective if you are operating in a pile of bones.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:25:35 PM EDT

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The Deck War of 83.

Lost a lot of good men.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:25:53 PM EDT

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The ones I have in my closet......

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:26:36 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2014 6:26:58 PM EDT

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Which variant? John Wayne Sparse or John Wayne dense? Tadpole Sparse or Tadpole Dense? Advisor's Type 1 or 2 Dense or Advisor's Type Sparse? Late War Lightweight Sparse or Late War Lightweight Sparse "Sparse"? Zig-zag? Splotched? Or maybe one of the other Asian country produced Tiger Stripes produced during the war, or maybe the ones produced after? Or maybe one of the newer American variations?

Personally, I like Tadpole Sparse.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:32:24 PM EDT

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The ones stored in my moms basement.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:33:31 PM EDT

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You too?

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:34:17 PM EDT

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Back in the early 2000s, I compared roughly 25 commercially available camo patterns. I had the idea of doing an article that might be picked up by an outdoor magazine. The test was not "scientific", but it did compare the patterns in a wide variety of environments ranging from hardwoods, pines, switchgrass, marsh/cattails/buckbrush, desert, conifer forest, and the Pacific Northwest at various distances and in carrying light conditions.

Mossy Oak Shadowgrass destroyed everything else...it was not even close. So much so that I felt I could not write an article that would seem non-biased.

Lighter, more open patterns were far superior to darker, more "busy" patterns. Vertical patterns were far superior to anything with a horizontal pattern. This two statements can be taken as the gospel.

I did not test any "military" style patterns.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:37:53 PM EDT

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Aesthetics?

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:39:16 PM EDT

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Where does the person who needs it live OP?
The brighter green camos work best in wet places, more brown the drier it is.
Someone in Sweden would need a camo with some white/all white in it for 1/2 the year.
White camouflage would get you killed very quickly here in the Sonoran desert.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:40:08 PM EDT

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Big Pony's stock?

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:40:55 PM EDT

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I approve of this cammo pattern whole heartedly

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:41:36 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2014 6:41:37 PM EDT

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Arfcom camo

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:42:36 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2014 6:43:36 PM EDT

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I prefer suburban camo.

Shirts favoring Obama, and other liberals work good in my neighborhood.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:44:32 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2014 6:44:41 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/16/2014 6:45:27 PM EDT

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Where does the person who needs it live OP?
The brighter green camos work best in wet places, more brown the drier it is.
Someone in Sweden would need a camo with some white/all white in it for 1/2 the year.
White camouflage would get you killed very quickly here in the Sonoran desert.

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That is why I listed spring, summer, fall, winter and desert.. To narrow it down a little

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:46:57 PM EDT

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As a former sniper that was in on the experiment and testing, I believe the single pattern that works the best in most environments that is commonly available is multicam. AOR and USMC desert worked better than multi in desert, but multicam worked better in green jungle, for example. The ACU actually worked ok in areas in Wyoming in the fall and winter because the existing vegetation and color of the rocks complimented it. Also, a frequent mistake people make in assessing camo requirements is looking at "high" vegetation. Unless you are a monkey, what's going on 7" or higher in a tree is irrelevant. The area a human needs to be concerned with is the ground level to 6' high(ish), and of that area, the ground to 3' high (ish) because when you are in a situation where concealment is MOST critical (hiding from direct observation from someone in your area). Think about it.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:47:07 PM EDT

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For swampy land, Mossy Oak Greenleaf is actually some of the best ever made. I have a turkey blind made of it and if you walk off from it thirty or forty yards, it blends in almost perfectly.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:48:28 PM EDT

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If it must work in all seasons and all climates, I'd have to throw my vote to Multicam. It seems to do a better job at blending across such a wide spectrum of environments than anything else I've seen thus far.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:51:35 PM EDT

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Polish woodland is my current fave (for my AO)

Swede M90 is more cool than effective

Auscam is pretty cool, and effective in certian areas. Would be a good fall camo in my AO.

Austrian Peas and dots is also pretty versatile.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:52:30 PM EDT

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They share.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:55:37 PM EDT

[#37]

24/7

365

cheers

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:56:05 PM EDT

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That is why I listed spring, summer, fall, winter and desert.. To narrow it down a little

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Where does the person who needs it live OP?
The brighter green camos work best in wet places, more brown the drier it is.
Someone in Sweden would need a camo with some white/all white in it for 1/2 the year.
White camouflage would get you killed very quickly here in the Sonoran desert.

That is why I listed spring, summer, fall, winter and desert.. To narrow it down a little

Even The North East of America doesn't need white camo in winter.

They need only two patterns, green and brown.

How much green and how much brown changes towards green as you go south to Florida until you get to southern Florida, where you need just bright green for the wet season and dull green for the " dry" season.

As Blake pointed out above, Mossy Oak Shadowgrass works insanely well in the Appalachians and anywhere wooded or swampy throughout the Midwest.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:56:07 PM EDT

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In my area of operations Where I live the six color chocolate chip works best in the in the rocks and three color desert works best in scrub brush of the valley floors so I went with three color figuring that's where I'd be most often while operating camping. I haven't tried the tan MarPat because out of respect to my Marine Corps brothers I refuse to wear the EGA.

I actually did, ya know, test several patterns before investing in three color BDUs and coyote rifles.

Posted: 9/16/2014 6:59:54 PM EDT

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She looks Spanish with that black mustache.

Posted: 9/16/2014 7:00:00 PM EDT

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I like natgear for almost everything.

Posted: 9/16/2014 7:09:37 PM EDT

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As a former sniper that was in on the experiment and testing, I believe the single pattern that works the best in most environments that is commonly available is multicam. AOR and USMC desert worked better than multi in desert, but multicam worked better in green jungle, for example. The ACU actually worked ok in areas in Wyoming in the fall and winter because the existing vegetation and color of the rocks complimented it. Also, a frequent mistake people make in assessing camo requirements is looking at "high" vegetation. Unless you are a monkey, what's going on 7" or higher in a tree is irrelevant. The area a human needs to be concerned with is the ground level to 6' high(ish), and of that area, the ground to 3' high (ish) because when you are in a situation where concealment is MOST critical (hiding from direct observation from someone in your area). Think about it.

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What would a former sniper say about the Swedish M90 (summer and desert)?