Fav Camo Patterns?

Nickodemus wrote: I am not offended because you are misunderstood. I have been playing paintball off and on for the past nine years. Obviously you haven’t read my other post to see the aggressive tactics I prefer to use. You forget the point of this thread! It’s about camo not tactics. I never said to play paintball like you hunt. That would be awfully inefficient. I said that the hunting patterns work better then MARPAT if you find one that works with the environment you play in.   Most of my games I play in normal clothes and camo isn’t even an issue! BUT - Since I play with small groups and sometimes one-on-one we play elimination and like to hide from each other. Like Manhunt with a paintball marker. I would never throw on a ghille for a speedball game, only particular woodsball games. Open the minds!

O.K, I misunderstood your thread, sorry, it sounded like you were saying that a guile was better all around, I understand fully what you are saying now, you are saying exactly what my argument is, that is to choose your camo based on your terrain, tactics, and foliage, sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

Oh one more thing, it is unavoidable in a topic about camouflage that you begin to talk of tactics because the type of camouflage you choose all depends on the type of tactics you use, take the guile for example, you obviously aren’t going to wear a guile suite if your running all over the field all the time, you would wear your self out and it would be easier for your opponents to spot you, I mean its not every day that you see a bush run across a field.

 

MARPAT and its likenesses,

I can't wait to see the next generation of digital camouflage. I mean squares work well from concept to production but I don't see any reason why you couldn't use other shapes like triangles and circles to get the digital contrast effect. How about fractals - Now that would play a trick on the eyes, the whole pattern would work together from the largest portion to the smallest.

 

I am not offended because you are misunderstood. I have been playing paintball off and on for the past nine years. Obviously you haven’t read my other post to see the aggressive tactics I prefer to use. You forget the point of this thread! It’s about camo not tactics.

I never said to play paintball like you hunt. That would be awfully inefficient. I said that the hunting patterns work better then MARPAT if you find one that works with the environment you play in.

 

Most of my games I play in normal clothes and camo isn’t even an issue! BUT - Since I play with small groups and sometimes one-on-one we play elimination and like to hide from each other. Like Manhunt with a paintball marker. I would never throw on a ghille for a speedball game, only particular woodsball games.

Open the minds!

Vigilante is right. Keep advancing as a team, and maintain the tactical initiatiive. Keep the opponents reacting to you. Keep the pressure up, and keep manoevering- you'll end up with them totally off balance, and you can roll in and clean them up. A well coordinated assault can beat any defense in paintball.

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.

Had to pick tigerstripe, but MARPAT is my favorite.

ahuh,,,, thats why the apparently word went in there,,, i wasnt sure how reliable my source was. and dude, learn to spell Australia.

brihard wrote: CADPAT. The original digital camouflage. Greener than the MARPAT, and I wear it at work.  Seriously, it's actually pretty good stuff.

thats actaully really well camoflaged if they would only follow the 7 s's of cam and concealment,, lol

anyways,, 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

 

i use military camo it works good

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?

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