Favorite Camo Pattern(s)?

An earthy brown or tan color works very well for me, as well as earthy-colored plaid flannel shirts. If I'm wearing "real" camo it's usually some form of Mossy Oak just because most decent hunting clothes I find come with that brand of camo.

Being quiet, keeping movement to a minimum, and scent management are more important than camo, though, in my opinion.
 
earthy browns, olive drabs, grey (like the new forest greeny grey by Maxpedition), CADPAT, multicam digicam
 
A lot of it depends on your region. I'm a hunter... have been doing it all my life. The fact is, most of the critters I hunt are colorblind, thus, you really only need something that will break up your outline. Any camo will do. Birds are a notable exception, as they have excellent vision.

Honestly, I think we have all been marketed to death by the camo companies who desperately try to convince us that we need the newest...latest...greatest camo pattern. They all work. Most of the time I wear the old woodland camo BDU's or just khaki.

Fact is though, if you don't hold very still (no fast movements) you are gonna get busted no matter what you wear.

BTW... You should pay a LOT more attention to your scent than your appearance. Smell is the primary defense for deer and hogs. Pay very close attention to the wind direction.
 
Multicam. It's just cool stuff.

But really, being conscious of your movement, using the terrain, and hunting into the wind are more important.
 
I like Advantage Timber because I think the lighter camos work better, but I agree that camo is not that important. Keeping still works. I have been in a solid light colored T-shirt and jeans, but staying still sitting next to a tree and have had a fox walk right up to me. The darker camos seem to make me into a large dark blob that scares animals.
 
I personally like lighter camo's, but Im never too worried about it. I also like just plain tan and greens that Maxpadetion and others use.
 
For Spring this is what I usually wear....

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At one time, some company marketed camo with the silouettes of curvacious women jumbled together on it. Don't remember the company name.


Just like your vision, movement is the tip off for most critters. If you wish to emulate the best camo-d animals...check out the patterns and shades of rabbits, coyotes, deer, cougar, etc...the prey animals and the solitary predators have gone through a singularly rigorous field testing program.

(pitdog? that's just wrong.)
 
I like Mossy Oak :thumbup: But as was already stated - most animals are color-blind, Deer see in different shades than coyote for example Deer don't pick up Blaze orange but coyote see it as a bright yellow & it sticks out to them. the key is to wear natural colors & try to break-up your outline;) As for the Digi-patterns I think that was developed to fool the human eye at a distance. Natural gear camo pattern is also a good one :thumbup:
 
Light brown/tan ("earthy") flannel shirts for me.
I used to wear regular camouflage until one day when I was playing paintball (in the woods, same woods I used to hunt), I noticed the guy in the tan jacket was a LOT harder to pick out than the guys in all different types of camos. Ever try to pick out a deer when it's not moving?!???
 
Rotte,

Those pics on the multi-cam sight were cool. It is amazing how versatile that stuff is. Because I tend to move - I like camoflage that is movement based. Woodland, for instance, is a camoflage pattern that tries to simply look like its surroundings - tiger stripe tries to gain movement to trick the eye.

I tend to pick those patterns. But, honestly, I rarely wear a pattern. I simply pick an olive drab style clothing for summer and a more tan or brown for spring and fall.

Deer hide VERY well - and they have no pattern. Heck, they wear white and get away with it!

TF
 
Have a little woodland on 2 M-65 jackets and a bandana or two. Don't wear them hunting at all. Usually just wear earthtones or lite charcoal wool, depending on time of year and area.
 
Talfuchre said:
Those pics on the multi-cam sight were cool. It is amazing how versatile that stuff is.
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Problem is most people base their judgement on multicam website pictures. There are a very few third party photographs and they don't look as good. Multicam is very clear camo: obviously it has some applications as most camos are too dark, yet it can proove embarassing in certain situations: dark green pine woods, dark can
I for myself like a lot DPM (efficient and plenty available at low price) and ASAT. Asat has some flows but the high contrast pattern works very well in a wide range of terrains and seasons (hence the name): when it takes you ten minutes to find again a camo you drop a few minutes ago in a radius of 5 yards (probably stepped on it a couple of times, arguably it was a very favorable situation: autumn evening with low "orange" sun: very high contrast).
 
Have a little woodland on 2 M-65 jackets and a bandana or two. Don't wear them hunting at all. Usually just wear earthtones or lite charcoal wool, depending on time of year and area.
 
+1 on Multicam. Switched to it about 3 years ago and never looked back. That stuff is just amazing. I have been looking at the new Italian digi pattern though (vegetato). Might have to try a set.....
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