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Posted: 6/8/2010 10:06:50 PM EDT
[#1]
I think we have a thread...show off those greens?
That being said. I prefer OD green. Folliage is too light in color. |
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Posted: 6/8/2010 10:09:17 PM EDT
[#2]
OD GREEN!
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Posted: 6/8/2010 10:10:53 PM EDT
[#3]
Another for OD here, foliage is kinda greyish.
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Posted: 6/8/2010 10:15:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/8/2010 10:42:46 PM EDT
[#5]
Personally I prefer the contrast between black and OD green. Foliage and UDE is too ACUtastic.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 12:32:20 AM EDT
[#6]
I'd say OD. Also, I think its pretty hard to beat the deal that Palmetto State Armory has going on their MOE lower build kit. Comes with CMMG lpk, MOE pistol grip, trigger guard, and stock, and a milspec buffer tube, carbine buffer, and spring.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 1:42:12 AM EDT
[#7]
I am a foilage green kind of guy.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 2:34:45 AM EDT
[#8]
I just want to vote for OD. I live in KY and it just makes the most since.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 2:38:54 AM EDT
[#9]
It's not going to match unless you change the receiver colors as well (like the SCAR).
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Posted: 6/9/2010 2:49:05 AM EDT
[#10]
Another vote for OD, and recievers on real guns are not supposed to be colors!....<><....:)
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Posted: 6/9/2010 3:39:55 AM EDT
[#11]
That being said. I prefer OD green. Folliage is too light in color.
Agreed. |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 7:17:06 AM EDT
[#12]
I vote for FDE because brown fits in everywhere, year round.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 7:26:17 AM EDT
[#13]
I built this carbine in OD green for my wife. I'm putting together a midlength and I think I'm going to try Larue's Urban Dark Earth furniture. I can post picks when it's done.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 7:43:15 AM EDT
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As a blend in camo color, OD is too dark for me. Foliage is much better at blending in. At least around here.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 8:02:14 AM EDT
[#15]
OD
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Posted: 6/9/2010 10:27:07 AM EDT
[#16]
olive drab is the best.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 11:29:29 AM EDT
[#17]
Hey Big Fat Dog.
I have the same rear sight as you and had been wondering about an optic. Care to elaborate on yours? |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 12:11:06 PM EDT
[#18]
My vote is for OD...recently I have found myself scaling back on it, but I still like my coffee with a lil OD
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Posted: 6/9/2010 12:27:24 PM EDT
[#19]
The problem with OD is that it looks almost black at a distance and low light conditions. Foliage Green blends in much better at distance and at dawn/dusk.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 12:58:38 PM EDT
[#20]
I tend to find foliage too light to blend with much of anything here in the subtropics. OD all the way for me.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 1:12:24 PM EDT
[#21]
OD, baby. |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 1:31:37 PM EDT
[#22]
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Hey Big Fat Dog. I have the same rear sight as you and had been wondering about an optic. Care to elaborate on yours? I have 2 rifles set up like that, one OD and one Black. It's a Trijicon Reflex II using the Trijicon flat-top mount (I bought them as the RX01NSN package). It sets up a nice Lower 1/3 co-witness. When shooting from a dark area to a brighter area the dot can wash out (due to it being illuminated by ambient light or the internal tritium)... with a fixed BUIS this potential problem becomes a minor annoyance. I keep thinking about replacing the Trijicon mount with a GG&G Accucam mount. I have them on the rest of my optics, but I can't bring myself to spend the money. My Recommendation: Buy one used (the washout problem makes them cheap on the secondary market), but without the mount and buy the GG&G mount. Which is exactly what I wish I had done. |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 2:53:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/9/2010 2:58:13 PM EDT
[#24]
Dont have a pic and its tucked away at my cabin but i prefer the O.D. same color as my 1st Armalite SPR.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 4:21:37 PM EDT
[#25]
http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz170/3seven4/DSC04082.jpg
Here's mine done in duracoat magpul od green. Not a perfect match but definately better than their magpul FDE. Sorry, picture isn't that great either. |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 4:40:31 PM EDT
[#26]
Those new rails from Spike's look nice. 
How's it working out for you so far? |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 5:46:06 PM EDT
[#27]
Quoted:
http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz170/3seven4/DSC04082.jpg Here's mine done in duracoat magpul od green. Not a perfect match but definately better than their magpul FDE. Sorry, picture isn't that great either. I like spooky. Also like OD as a option to all black. If you want camo it will be a wide variety of colors and changed as needed. Fashion statement only, some like CAT yellow, some like pink, who cares. I do find it funny when I see images of weapons all painted up, less the scope or hunter. Or everything less hands, face or a combination of all these. It's even better when hunting from a truck 458 |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 5:51:49 PM EDT
[#28]
Another vote for OD.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 6:44:27 PM EDT
[#29]
I had a mix of both with this build..
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Posted: 6/9/2010 9:25:00 PM EDT
[#30]
I went with Foliage Green and after seeing all these pics of Olive Drag, I'm very comfortable with my choice. OD is too dark ... may as well stay black.
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Posted: 6/9/2010 9:30:02 PM EDT
[#31]
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OD is too dark ... may as well stay black. Yeah, I was just about to mention this. If you want looks, do whichever. If you want function, go foliage, or a mix. The functional purpose of the colored stocks, etc. is to break up the outline of the rifle. The foliage, being of a lighter color, helps break up the outline more so than OD. -Ed |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 10:02:45 PM EDT
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I had a mix of both with this build.. http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww359/jboy723/IMG_3487.jpg Hoochie MOMA.....i am beginning to notice that if its HOT and its SHORT, its yours 
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Posted: 6/10/2010 12:24:13 AM EDT
[#33]
That looks foliage on my monitor. Unless that is foliage and you're trying to say it's too light by putting it on the darker grass? But OD (or which there are a dozen shades) will stand out just as much (well, at least all the shades I've seen used on AR parts anyway) on that grass. Foliage is almost as dark as a lot of sage brush, it's a little darker than the underside of many leaves, It doesn't match anything perfectly. It still does a better job than most OD. I can't think of anything I've seen OD actually match up with. WA, TX, VA, MD, FL, Germany, England, NM, CA, AL... maybe in someplace like FL under heavy tree cover where you're in shadows the darkness of the color would help blend more. For anything but a rain forest or true jungle, FG is probably a better match. And even in those locales it would do a decent job. Or hell, get another rifle and do both! I have a Bushmaster with an OD grip, stock, and forearm. My 6920 has the grip, stock, and rail covers in FG. I might do my 6.8 in FDE when I get a lower for it, or I might get a brown lower receiver once we get those in and do a FDE and brown mix. |
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Posted: 6/10/2010 1:44:06 AM EDT
[#34]
Quoted:
That looks foliage on my monitor. Unless that is foliage and you're trying to say it's too light by putting it on the darker grass? But OD (or which there are a dozen shades) will stand out just as much (well, at least all the shades I've seen used on AR parts anyway) on that grass. Foliage is almost as dark as a lot of sage brush, it's a little darker than the underside of many leaves, It doesn't match anything perfectly. It still does a better job than most OD. I can't think of anything I've seen OD actually match up with. WA, TX, VA, MD, FL, Germany, England, NM, CA, AL... maybe in someplace like FL under heavy tree cover where you're in shadows the darkness of the color would help blend more. For anything but a rain forest or true jungle, FG is probably a better match. And even in those locales it would do a decent job. Or hell, get another rifle and do both! I have a Bushmaster with an OD grip, stock, and forearm. My 6920 has the grip, stock, and rail covers in FG. I might do my 6.8 in FDE when I get a lower for it, or I might get a brown lower receiver once we get those in and do a FDE and brown mix. OD on St. Augustine grass in high sun. Most of the foliage green plastic that I have seen is a bit minty to my eye. |
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Posted: 6/12/2010 12:28:52 PM EDT
[#35]
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Those new rails from Spike's look nice.
How's it working out for you so far? They are nice. The bigger dimension makes for a nice grip....IMHO. |
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Posted: 6/12/2010 12:57:11 PM EDT
[#36]
Foliage Greem is much better IMO and an urban feel to it, for me anyway.
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Posted: 6/12/2010 1:11:57 PM EDT
[#37]
Just snapped this. |
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Posted: 6/12/2010 1:48:26 PM EDT
[#38]
While I'm going the FDE route on mine, OD is the only green I'd allow.
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Posted: 6/13/2010 12:31:40 PM EDT
[#39]
Foliage. We have 4 seasons in NH. I think foliage will work best most of the time.
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Posted: 6/13/2010 1:02:06 PM EDT
[#40]
I like Foilage better, i looked at both before i went this route:
I'm happy with the result. I may do my second AR with an ACS rear stock and MOE front also in Foilage. Or maybe the CASV-EL-1 front. |
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Posted: 6/13/2010 1:06:51 PM EDT
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I like Foilage better, i looked at both before i went this route: http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/NIHILator/SmithandWessonMAGPUL1.jpg I'm happy with the result. I may do my second AR with an ACS rear stock and MOE front also in Foilage. That looks great and all, but the last thing on earth it looks like in the pic is foliage....to me it looks like FDE mixed w. OD or something. Prob. just the lighting or something
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Posted: 6/13/2010 1:12:31 PM EDT
[#42]
That looks great and all, but the last thing on earth it looks like in the pic is foliage....to me it looks like FDE mixed w. OD or something. Prob. just the lighting or something
Took it last night inside with a flourescent shop light and the flash on my camera. Looking at the other pics, i see what you mean. But its foilage for sure. |
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Posted: 6/13/2010 1:18:50 PM EDT
[#43]
 Here's my OD and Foliage furnitured rifles. ETA, the middy has a FH on it now (was a build in progress at the time). |
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Posted: 6/13/2010 1:26:46 PM EDT
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That looks great and all, but the last thing on earth it looks like in the pic is foliage....to me it looks like FDE mixed w. OD or something. Prob. just the lighting or something
Took it last night inside with a flourescent shop light and the flash on my camera. Looking at the other pics, i see what you mean. But its foilage for sure. OD and Foliage are very hard to capture the true color off...great looking rig what ever shade it is
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Posted: 6/13/2010 5:49:05 PM EDT
[#45]
Its all pure personal preference, but that being said, I have 2 AR's and 1 Ak wearing OD. 0 in Foliage Green.
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Posted: 6/13/2010 6:11:42 PM EDT
[#46]
I prefer foliage out here in West Texas. Most of the year Foliage Green is the right choice where I spend most of the time with my guns.
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