Fav Camo Patterns?

I go with woodland, but I can't wait to try out the US Army's new digital pattern on the ACU (Advanced Combat Uniform), the replacement for the current BDU's (Battle Dress Uniform).  Hopefully, I'll get the chance to try them in the field, and on the paintbal field before the next deployment to the Middle East. These use the same pattern, but diferent colors as the Marine pattern.  From what I remember in the Army Times article, the Army licensed the pattern from the Marines, so they are copyrighted as well (no globe and anchor though, thank God ;) ). There are a lot of knockoff uniforms and equipment with the Marine pattern, and some Marines are using their access to their clothing sales stores to make a little extra money on the side by selling the authentic items on e-bay.  Of course, I'm pretty sure that's like illegal, blackmarketeering or something like that.

A definate pl;us for everyone who plays in the woods, is that with the Army and Marines switching or already switched, and the Navy and Air Force looking at new patterns, there will be tons of woodland BDU's on the surplus market, and ebay pretty soon.  We (Army) are isuing the ACU to people going to the Middle East now, then to trainees, and they will be in our clothing sales stores I think next yar, with a mandatory owning date of 2007.  Of course the reserve components might be getting them later or earlier depending on if/when they deploy.  There will also be a lot of the 3 color desert BDU hitting the market soon.  The Marines have their desert uniform, and we are using one uniform for all climates  and will be getting rid of ours soon too.  Actually we didn't even have to turn ours in when we got back, and before units returning from desert locales had to. This is because of deploying units getting the ACU's.

Liquid3 wrote: I always though that active camo was the best for close range (i.e. Realtree Hardwoods Green) in the summer in northern woods. It is harder to match to your surroundings but once you do your pretty much invisible. Passive camo I thought worked better as a all around camo and at a distance. Am I nuts?

You are sort of right, that realtree stuff w/ the pictures of pine trees and pine cones is better than that green and black blotchy stuff, but remember that you can’t blend in w/ a green background when you are wearing solid green because the main way camouflage hides you is by breaking up your outline, and no camo does that as well as pixel camo. But that realtree stuff does come in a close second.

Blackbetty wrote: ... my vote goes for the Australian spotties... there the best. apparently america wanted to buy them in return for m16s for australia and australia told them to bugger off cuz they had perfectly good styers

Umm... thats not true. There was no such offer made to Austrailia.

Oh I did spell it wrong didn’t I, I can’t type very good, I must of accidentally hit the wrong button. But no hard feelings about your earlier statement right? I said something earlier in this thread about MARPAT being first, but I was wrong, so I’ve said things without doing any research as well.

Nickodemus wrote: For paintball I like to use the hunting camo prints that match my environment. MARPAT and the other digital camo is built to be a good pattern for every environment but a master of no environment; therefore it is good for military and bad for the specifics like paintball. I live in Florida and have found that nothing beats DK Flatwoods. http://www.dkflatwoods.com/camo.html It’s the official pattern of the state turkey-hunting club. Ever hunt turkey? They can see the whites of your eyes. Be glad we don’t have to hide from thermal! If your games allow you to “wait for them to come to me” build a ghille poncho. Bring a pair of rose prunners out with you so you can add vegetation to yourself to match your environment. I have had friends not-knowing step on me. After they discover your trick take of the ghille and tie it to a tree next to you. When they shoot the ghille you shoot them.

No offense to you or anything but, how long have you been playing paintball? I’ve been hunting all over the country since I was six, and I have been playing paintball for quite a number of years now all over the country as well, and I can tell you that paintball bears no similarities to hunting at all. Sitting and waiting is never good, unless your whole team is planning an ambush, and even then a guile suit will just get in your way. If you are all alone, away from your team, and sitting and waiting, that only will get you one or two guys out before you are taken out, this does nothing to help your team. So get up, ditch the guile suit, and be a team player by moving w/ your team, its way more fun and you will be more effective in paintball.

Once again, I am not trying to offend you or anything, so please don’t take what I’ve said the wrong way.

I don’t mean to sound like a jerk and I am sure you are all fine players – But I didn’t think anyone would pull out the tactics card on a camo pattern thread. I presume someone reading this looking for a good camo pattern has need for it in the games they play.

If you want to blend in totally you have to ghille and I have no shame is saying that. This can be suicide in some types of games and a necessity in others. Most of you probably don’t have private property to play on and the fields you go to would not allow for an advantage using camouflage and concealment. But if your like me and get a 2-on-2 or each man for themselves going, with no goal but elimination, then you discover the advantage of the ambush and C&C.

If I go to the rec field by me with 200 players on the field I wear more athletic attire.

Get the equipment for the games you play. Understand that not everyone plays the same type of games as you.