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Posted: 3/15/2022 9:24:21 PM EDT
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Worst is almost all kryptek, especially blue for fishing types
![]() I'll call it "most adaptive" - Pencott Badlands. Not universal but works well in many places. ![]() |
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worst is mossy oak. I used to watch black blobs move through the woods when I was bow hunting. If you wore ASAT or Multicam you'd be invisible, but with mossy oak the pattern is too dark and too dense, turns to black at a distance.
Camo is like fishing lures, it's intended to catch people at the store, not in the field. |
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ACU isn't even close to being the worst.
I'm going to go with that blue digital sailor-drowning facilitator the USN cooked up. |
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I came here to shit on the acus. I was in the second company at ft. Benning to get them and the unit that replaced Mr on my last deployment while stop lossed showed up in the new pattern. I think the army finally got us all matching acu pattern shit about 9 months before they began fielding the new stuff...money wel.....money spent.
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M81 isn’t terrible.
Highlander and Mandrake Kryptek are both very good. Multicam is very good as well. Plain OD that’s been faded a bit is actually pretty darn amazing in both woodland and urban environments. |
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Worst:
![]() ETA: Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/512505/4967075A-4F83-4ACC-8065-408632763823_jpe-2314956.JPG View Quote Uh...well...shit. I take it back. |
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Quoted: worst is mossy oak. I used to watch black blobs move through the woods when I was bow hunting. If you wore ASAT or Multicam you'd be invisible, but with mossy oak the pattern is too dark and too dense, turns to black at a distance. Camo is like fishing lures, it's intended to catch people at the store, not in the field. View Quote That hasn’t been the case for many years now. Some of their older stuff was certainly dark, though. |
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Quoted: The worst is ACU https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0073/8816/8247/products/SRT1118-ACU-shirt-main_2cb8f38b-b657-4c26-be9e-3d4d59bc87f5_1024x1024.jpg?v=1571726765 The best is a toss up between, Marpat and Flecktarn https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0869/2552/products/SRT1011-USMC-MARPAT-Shirt-Main_a62345f4-f0b4-4d4a-8e18-a6c6b475a4f4_grande.JPG?v=1519095235 https://5dbssj1032-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/German-Flectarn-Parka-New-Overall-scaled.jpg What is your opinion? View Quote I agree with your "best" but, there are lots worse than ACU. ETA: ATACS is pretty good too. |
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The desert storm camo works amazingly well in the NM desert.
My favorite camo is Predator, which is difficult to find. Most camos appear as a single color blob at distance. At close range camo is less important since the slightest movement will give you away anyhow. I've bow hunted for years and have shot Elk within 10 feet twice. |
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Quoted: worst is mossy oak. I used to watch black blobs move through the woods when I was bow hunting. If you wore ASAT or Multicam you'd be invisible, but with mossy oak the pattern is too dark and too dense, turns to black at a distance. Camo is like fishing lures, it's intended to catch people at the store, not in the field. View Quote That’s because you have to buy the mossy oak for your environment. Most people just get the big box store mossy oak that doesn’t work. I have MO for the Louisiana swamps and different for east Texas and different for SE Oklahoma |
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Quoted: The worst is ACU https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0073/8816/8247/products/SRT1118-ACU-shirt-main_2cb8f38b-b657-4c26-be9e-3d4d59bc87f5_1024x1024.jpg?v=1571726765 The best is a toss up between, Marpat and Flecktarn https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0869/2552/products/SRT1011-USMC-MARPAT-Shirt-Main_a62345f4-f0b4-4d4a-8e18-a6c6b475a4f4_grande.JPG?v=1519095235 https://5dbssj1032-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/German-Flectarn-Parka-New-Overall-scaled.jpg What is your opinion? View Quote Depends on where you are dude.... In Michigan, it's definitely Flectarn. |
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Most recently, Multicam appears to work quite well in Ukrainian tree lines.
Someone once called Kryptek the Nickelback of camo LOL |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/512505/4967075A-4F83-4ACC-8065-408632763823_jpe-2314956.JPG View Quote I stand corrected, this is the worst. It could only work in a Chuck E Cheese…. ![]() |
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Worn in vegetato. This is a little too new. Maybe because there a few XXXXL Italian soldiers.
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For my ao I always liked ATACs AU. Worst for me is the ACU or the blue kryptec
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Quoted: Worst: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/2022-03-15_21-52-34_png-2314981.JPG Best (depending where you use it): https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/309598/27500772_816680381865634_902826401424223-2314978.JPG View Quote Kuiu verde master race checking in |
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Worst: that 90s SWAT black and grey urban camo.
![]() Best: multicam, especially the tropical one. ![]() |
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Always been a flecktarn fan. The bright and dark combo just really does a lot for it.
The comment above about Mossy Oak seems to ring true for a lot of these designs to me, and the staged photos in ideal surroundings, with ideal lighting, from an ideal distance just make me laugh. |
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I believe a compelling argument can be made for Olive Drab (especially mixed/covered in whatever local dust) is STILL one of the best “camo” patterns.
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Quoted: Always been a flecktarn fan. The bright and dark combo just really does a lot for it. The comment above about Mossy Oak seems to ring true for a lot of these designs to me, and the staged photos in ideal surroundings, with ideal lighting, from an ideal distance just make me laugh. View Quote The best staged photo is that guy on his grandma’s couch. ![]() |
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Not necessarily the best but I have a couple of unissued, new condition flecktarn parkas (still have the German flags on the shoulders) that work great in the hills around here. I'd like to find some pants to go with them.
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I think it depends on whether you are hiding from men or animals. Multicam works very well for people, but if I'm hunting animals, I think that a larger pattern like ASAT works better.
ATACS seems like a really good idea. Small pattern to blend color, inside a larger pattern to break up outline. There is a lot to be said for HEAT (hippy earth tones) as well. Regular clothes in earth tones blend in in the woods or at Starbucks. |
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Quoted: REBSCUMPAT Nothing else is even close. https://www.figurerealm.com/userimages/characterprofiles/1000/758-1-5eb44aa15925b.jpg View Quote I need a multicam trenchcoat. |
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