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Your Best Camo Pattern?

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#1 ·
Each year I still see a new camo pattern come out in the market. I have absolutely zero business sense so take it for what it’s worth , but I just don’t see how these newer camo brands make money. The price points on some of these camo brands are just crazy.

But what is your best “all time” camo pattern? Mine would be mossy oak bottomland. I’ve been wearing it for 34 years. I just feel natural in it and I don’t have to be hunting. You see Phil Robertson wearing his year round , I’m honestly like that if my wife would let me. It’s just comfortable stuff , I love the pattern and honestly I’m in or around the woods daily anyways .
 
#41 ·
Hunting black tail’s in a flannel jacket with OD green waterproof army pants, no camouflage at all, just using natural cover, stealth and slow movements.
Down there y’all be worried sitting in a heated ground blind and the squeak of the old office chair would scare all the deer in a quarter mile radius. :LOL::ROFLMAO:
Just kidding, that’s probably going to be my scenario learning to hunt whitetail.
 
#45 ·
@samson7x hit the nail on the head. Quality clothing hs way more to do with textile and construction techniques than it does color. That’s just a bonus. The story behind KUIU is interesting. They owners went to REI and bought the best high end outdoor and mountain climbing gear. They took it to manufacturers and said we want this in camo. Saved the receipts and took it all back to REI. BOOM! $50M company was created. Most “camo” companies are just making pretty pictures, not quality clothing. Lightweight, stretchable, quick drying synthetics, designed for freedom of movement, will always make the most comfortable gear. Then just pick whichever earth tones match your terrain. Oh, and a vest. To truly be dressed like the outdoor elites, you’ve gotta have a vest.
 
#49 ·
An old man told me one time in 1981, I think, when I proudly showed him my brand-new Crumley's TreBark camo: "Hell, boy, if ye can sit STILL (and here he clamped his arms to his sides to emphasize the "sit still" part) you don't need a suit that looks like a tree to kill a turkey. We 'bout wiped 'em off the face of the earth wearin' blue bib overhauls."

That said, I like Longleaf best, but I'm also a fan of both Realtree and Mossy Oak - mostly, I suppose, because both those companies were awfully good to me back in the day when I was a starving freelance outdoor writer. But in the end, it's like the old man in the blue bib overhauls said more than 40 years ago: "...if ye can sit STILL..."
 
#54 ·
Same answer as the last time this question was asked: earth tone solids and a mixed bag of lots of different camo patterns with NatGear being my general-purpose favorite.

FWIW, darker/more dense patterns like M81 Woodland, most of the Mossy Oaks/Realtrees, solid black, etc show up really obviously when viewed under night vision. Lighter/more open patterns like NatGear, ATACS, Multicam, desert camos, etc hide much better. If such things matter to you.
 
#69 ·
Several years ago, can’t remember who, tested a bunch of camo patterns to see which the deer most oblivious to. They were surprised that the M81 camo (not Vietnamese Nam tiger) was the one that deer seemed not to notice. Me, brown overalls or earth tone shirt, blue jeans washed in UV killer detergent.