What is the Best Camouflage Pattern?
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If there was a perfect pattern there wouldn't be so many
Yup. There is no "best camo pattern". There's good camo patterns, and bad camo patterns. The worst camo patterns are ones that try to be the best for anything more than 1 or 2 specific areas.
Eat your cereal
Depends on the terrain
Multicam imo
@@alphabroncotwozero392 regular multicam isnt the best is green dominant environment. That’s why they made multicam tropic which I love
I’m from the northeast (eastern Massachusetts) and during the summer/spring flecktarn is perfect especially right after it rains and in the fall alpenflage can actually work quite well
I feel like the best pattern (if you can only buy one) is the most versatile possible. But as he says you must adapt to your environment. I have OCP, MC Arid, RG, M05, etc for different parts of the country and times of year.
I really like exploring new camouflages, I’ve been looking for some good summer/spring camouflage for the northeastern Kentucky brush. It has a somewhat particular shade of green I don’t really see in the north or the east.
Imho Eichentarn and Pencott Greenzone for everything but snow and sand.
Someone is going to make a UCP/ABU joke, but it’s actually good for night vision and on fall/winter it’s not a bad Camo especially with night/low light conditions.
UCP camo looks better on the civillian market, and maybe the Space Force. Works great on the moon tbh.
It is kind of sad that you had to make a whole video to explain the concept of camouflage. Down in Oklahoma woodland is popular. I have found it works well in any environment with trees because enough greens and browns. Multi cam can be hit or miss. But honestly in flat plains sometimes the best camo can be solid olive drab or tan.
It's clearly UCP, it's right there in the name
Which reminds me of the dude who's gf made a sex tape when the guy was in basic)
_Angry Cop noises_
I’ve always called it ICU 🤣
The Unremarkable Clown Posse is somewhat less controversial than their cousins, the Insane Clown Posse.
The couch camo
I really love the German SS , reversible “ Blurred Edge “ pattern, especially the autumn side. It breaks up your silhouette well and blends perfectly in the woods... in this case Missouri.
I like the Russian version. I think its called SS-leto? The version used on the SSO Partizan-M suit is by far my favorite. The autumn side is killer.
"Oh you like military uniforms? Name every camo "
China with its variety of digital camo: *U have chosen an impossible task, would u like to continue?*
Military camo is all new to me, but anything beats Digital ACU
I guess for a civilian hunter like me, Mossy Oak Bottomlands is the go-to stuff
What's digital ACU> Do you mean UCP (Universal Camouflage Patter),. because ACU, which stands for Army Combat Uniform, is a uniform pattern, not a camouflage pattern, and can come in any color or camo pattern under the sun.
Greenleaf > Bottomland
But both good
Digital is just bad, hard lines and corners exist nowhere in nature. It's like the army just wanted to look futuristic
@@Riceball01 he means the digital army combat uniform.
@@cbeaudry4646 I go greenleaf in the spring and bottomland in the fall lol
I like ATACS-AU or ATACS-FG AU in the Winter and Fall, FG in the summer and spring
I 100% agree, at least for the area in which I live. Winters tend to be cold and barren, but often snowless, making AU perfect for the arid grass and forests.
Flektarn in North Carolina and South Carolina is great killed my first turkey in it , really good camo for my part of the south east
I live in the northeastern part of South Carolina and multicam does pretty well for me especially in light broom straw fields
Real tree. Have you ever even seen the ads in the hunting magazines? Makes you invisible
good ole Vietnam era tigerstripe will always be my favorite
My opinions:
Lush forests: Flecktarn
Deserts: MARPAT Desert
Swamps: CADPAT
Snowy areas: Literally the color white
The moon: UCP
In washington. Eastern Washington multicam would be a good choice. Western washington Flectarn or Canadian cadpat even woodland. Summer time more bright greens. Winter its dark and cloudy all the time. Something with field grey in it and some browns and greens would be good
Obviously Ameriflage.
US Woodland/M81, MARPAT, Multicam are the best camouflages to me.
Whenever I'd drive to work and look at the hills near me on the sides of the freeway, I really think that woodland MARPAT would work well, particularly during Spring and Summer when SoCal gets its annual does of rain. During the Summer and Fall when things are dried out, Muticam looks it would work well. Unfortunately, I have no way of testing this since those hills aren't accessible to the general public.
Like everything in life. The right tool, used in the right way, for the right task.
I hunt NE Ohio and the Allegheny foothills in North Central PA and woodland flecktarn works fantastically in all seasons. Love the stuff. The Polish wz.93 (probably my favorite stuff based on looks alone) works ok as well in the foothills.
I live in upper Michigan and woodland camo works very well. A-TACS Green works well here as well.
Summertime in central Wisconsin, I love the Berezka (yellowish 'sun bunnies' with bright green background) for effectiveness, and Red Dawn aesthetic, otherwise Flecktarn or Serbian Oakleaf. Good shit !
German Dot 44 works really well in eastern ks and Missouri woods just about all year round. Minus snow. However, it needs to be kept clean, because soiling it makes you look like a brown blob
Lol the struggles of being a content creator. It's interesting that some naively think there is a one size fits all approach for camo. The Army tried that in 2004 with the UCP and failed miserably, where regardless of what landscape/environment you're in, unless you're standing in front of a gray slate stone hillside, you'll stick out like a lightbulb. MARPAT is my favorite for my area pretty much all year round. We rarely get snow, and there are many cedar trees with the deciduous fauna, keeping a good blend of greens and browns that MARPAT works well in regardless what time of year it is.
The ONE vegetation that UCP blends with is sagebrush. Nothing else
Woodland is the best camo pattern, fight me.
I'll win because you can't fight what you can't see.
3 pattern and desert night camie.😉
Have you tried the russian digi flora?
US M 81 is a standard in Eastern Oklahoma, the call this Green Country for a reason.
One thing I do is dye cheap camo to adjust it. I dyed vegetato slightly greener and it works great in summer woodland in Indiana.
I live in northern utah were we have a lot of sage and some wooded areas and i usually use marpat because it tends to be decent in the sage and disappear in the woods here. My friend uses ocp and that seems to disappear in the sage brush. When i first tried any camo out i tried acu digital and that shit sticks out worse than if i just wore a green t shirt with blue jeans
I find the old strichtarn pattern to work surprisingly well in the fall up north with the fields...
I was a big fan of Flectarn out in the woods of Eastern Wisconsin. Then I moved out to Colorado, went Multicam, and never looked back.
I'd choose old-school woodland over all this fancy new stuff any day.
Woodland never really did anything for me until the last year or two. Now most of my gear is M81. It grows on you like a fungus.
Woodland is a pretty good summer camo, but I tend to be using camo more in fall/winter.
I mean archery season doesn't start in my state till late Sept almost Oct, Muzzleloader doesn't start till early Nov, rifle doesn't start till late Nov.
Unpopular opinion: But Mossy Oak Greenleaf is pretty good. Problems with it:
1. It's hard to find because it's been replaced by the more modern and gimmicky hunting camos
2. The quality of the clothes you can find it in are hit or miss (both because of #1, and because it is a hunting rather than military camo).
As far as traditional/military camo, I think British DPM is good
Camo patterns are always helpful when you can match a similar pattern, back before i started buying camo i wore US military issue olive drab or good old OG107.Back years ago that stuff was for sale everywhere, now good luck finding it in a size that fits or is genuine military. You wear that any time of the year in Wisconsin and it makes you much harder to see. Thanks for the cool video Mike i love camo too.
I'm Really glad you included DPM, being a Brit I've got a soft spot for it. A lot of the later issue DPM is quite dark and only suitable for summer woodland and jungle use, there are some earlier variants called Pattern 84 (P84) and Pattern 94, they have slightly different colourways which would make them more suitable for the spring too. DPM really is old school but still effective.
If you are in the south or NE, I think tropical multicam, atcs fg, and digital flora are awesome.
Best camo: the one the Predator was using in the eponymous movie. Also note: that flick was the best ad for thermal optics I've ever seen...
Strichtarn or GTFO
Okay, so I'm gonna try and ask this in a detailed and answerable way. What camo do you believe would be best for me?
I play airsoft, and I live in northeastern Oklahoma. At the moment I wear an old set of M81 Woodland. Similar to what you described of your area, it can get fairly vibrant and green in the summer and spring, and then grey and brown (with some evergreens) in the winter. We didn't get much of fall this year but they're normally fairly orange.
I know that no single camo is going to be the best year round. But in the summers, I feel that although the woodland camo is fairly green, that it is too dark and causes me to stand out, and that goes for the winter too.
So, what would you maybe recommend for let's say just a summer camouflage and a winter camouflage?
Keep up the great work! I love your videos, especially your camo videos!
No idea, you'll have to look at patterns and decide for yourself. Research is most of the fun.
For late fall/early winter deer hunting, I've been using woodland flectarn. Seems to work well enough and my new old stock parka cost a fraction of what a comparable new hunting jacket. When it gets really cold, I use my Austrian winter pants. They aren't camo but they are super warm. I have some new stuff that I use but most of my gear is surplus and I have saved a lot of money that way. My mikov Czech paratrooper knife wasn't cheap (also not surplus) but it was definitely worth it.
PenCott Greenzone/ Flecktarn/ Wildwood/ Badlands/ Sandstorm/ Snowdrift, preferably in NIR compliant pure cotton to defeat IR detection
All other camos are invalid and irrelevant
Don’t mind the Aussie amcu, pretty scarce but, here down under.
I have a couple of sets of amcu's
Where I live Swedish M90 works amazing. If I drive an hour East German camo is really effective.
Aesthetically speaking, Alpenflage is the best.
when you need to blend in with the bloodstains from the fallen around you
I have a set, works great in most Woodlands I've been in
I’m from eastern Massachusetts and in the fall when all the leaves fall it blends in perfectly
... something with larger splotches. Larger splotches help break up silhouettes at a distance better. Tight intricate patterns look cool up close but turn into muddied blobs at a distance. That's why some people wear desert carriers with woodland fatigues or vice-versa... so on a tanner background it breaks up your core and on a greener background it breaks up your extremities... which is some cases is better than a humanoid shape being all one color or pattern. That's just my humbled opinion.
What makes camo effective is breaking up silhouettes... If the pattern is too small it'll lose that contrast and may as well be monochromatic tan, grey or olive at a distance.
Here in the northern end of the murder mitten I find flecktarn quite well for the cedar swamp all around me. Fall I find it effective in other woodland areas too.
Winter it's the same story you told.
what would be ideal camo for ''supposed'' American urban environment? so far I've seen, most cities here are just green enough with trees and gardens, compared to other urban places/countries, so I suppose something green would do
@@mardiffv.8775 pretty sure is a war crime to do that
Desert working well when the leaves are brown doesn't surprise me a bit.
Most camoflaged mofo in the leaf litter on the ground is a brown camo copperhead snake.
Chocolate chip worked great in Quantico Va in winter.
I wish there was a better selection of uniform cuts avalible besides BDU and ACU. Kryptek looks cool but I question the actual effectiveness of the insect pattern irl. Also the company that makes it hates pockets just as much as us army command does. I LIKE POCKETS! I find them very useful. The new us army's tropical uniform delets even more of the uniforms pockets not to make the uniform cooler to wear in hot temperatures but, to eliminate more of those evil pockets. The navy's guacamole camo is the best fatigue cut in the armed forces! Shame it's the navy uniform.
I still say Vietnam era Jungle fatigues were the best. Kryptek mandrake isn't bad in the woods up here, and when it first came out, they had kryptek mandrake tropical which was fantastic but I couldn't afford a set at that point. Will try to get a set and do a video on it.
I use flecktarn up north and brushstroke down south (east coast US) easy peasy
When stationed at Ft Lewis, WA; I had a neighbor that would bow hunt. He swore that for the Pacific Northwest pine rain forest that Tigerstripe was the best camo.
I think people like the way it looks, and convince themselves it's the best based on aesthetics.
Huh, you didn't do a "made it this far" thing this time.
My favorite general purpose camo is woodland MARPAT. Works in a lot of places.
It's pretty good out here in WA, as it works with the high deserts here in Southeastern WA (full of sage brush), as well as the coniferous forests of the Eastern side of the Cascade mountain range. I haven't really seen much of the Western side, but what I have seen around Seattle is more like a rain forest, super lush and green much like the Columbia Gorge near Portland, OR. MARPAT could work there, but there are better patterns for that area.
Of course, I like to keep it simple when hunting. Blue jeans and orange flannel. When hunting deer, that works quite well, as deer have a terrible time making out blue and orange, but at the same time other hunters can see you very well. Turkey, though... I have yet to hunt them, but everyone I know who hunts wild turkey seem to gravitate towards a Real Tree camo print that matches the area they intend to hunt, and even then, they usually double up the camo by concealing themselves in a blind, as wild turkeys have exceptional sight.
I'm also a fan of having a flat base color, and then rub in local dirt and fasten local vegetation to break up form. Works well enough, and then you can wash the clothes and NOT look like a weirdo walking around town in camo... then again, around here, you'd look weird if you're not wearing camo, so when in Rome...
south africa old browns are the best
The perfect camouflage would be one that is so adaptive that it can actively change to its environment instantly. Think like the stealthboy in Fallout.
In my personal opinion flecktarn and rhodesian brushstroke are the best forested patterns bar none. They will both serve you well spring through fall in nearly any forested environment.
Standing up or laying on the ground. Under the sun or not. Close vs far etc. Can drastically alter effectiveness of a camp pattern's effectiveness. In woodland areas, darker camo especially ones with black generally works much better if you lay on the ground, but not if you're standing.
Ahagecam is the best camo. Hands down
I think reversible are the best bang for buck, or bang for weight if you are worried about hunting/ end of the world scenarios. but yeah no 1 camo is truly universal. i got a sewing machine and have been wanting to test out the reversible concept more
Up here in Southern Maine/NH, I've had great luck with SS-Leto fall, spring and Summer, flecktarn, VSR-93, M81 woodland, Pixelka and DPM, I'll have to try multicam/ocp, but MTP works too
Both Phantomleaf and Pencott looks like a really effective camo!
Plus, they offer multiple patterns.
I definitely agree with what you said about having multiple camos. Just like your military, over here in Britain, we also have troops deploying to different environments.
I've also thought multicam would be a good winter camo.
I'm in the middle of joining my local army reserve unit, and I've noticed the MTP uniform turns more brown when it fades.
I personally think MTP/multicam should be used for winter and desert environments, and then have a woodland camo for summer, and a jungle camo for tropical environments.
Or have a camo that can be used for both woodland and jungles.
Also, quick question.... Do you think there's any point in a military using urban camo?
I live in NJ (shore) what's funny is that desert flecktarn works in the fall
Several different patterns work best, depending on the area and the season, but most will work fine if you have decent, somewhat blending concealment and don't move. Movement gives away much more than a camo pattern. A deer uses an all medium brown design with white undercarriage, and they can be difficult to see unless they move.
i think that digital flora blends in good with grass
In West Florida I've found Multicam and Woodland work pretty good year round and OD Green works fairly well in the spring and summer.
Hey Mike, that chinese Tibet camo works great in that khaki winter environment you were talking about.
Not to mention the entire world of russian camos out there, the russian alternatives have something for everyone.
North Georgia here, Flecktarn works really great for early fall/waning winter. Mixes very well with the mix of greens and orange and dark brown.
Ive been going categorically by season in my general location dry AND wet colors as color scheme changes between sunny days and when its raining and with seasons obvioudly the landscape/color scheme changes as well so maybe early summer by me dry weather will be marpat as its matte greens and browns and then when its raining as it gets super lush green and glossy the multicam tropic works better. Also judging how youre placed in the environment which i call "fore/aft/under" (in front of background/behind something IN the background and in the underbrush or under branches) But yea create a checklist by season, wet/dry, "fore/aft/under" and then get some buddies and start making fun of each other playing "wheres waldo" 😂 then check or cross off ( ✅️/❌️) what does or doesnt work and then buy accordingly and dress accordingly. And another tip: DO NOT EXCLUDE HUNTING/CIVILIAN CAMOS!!! Some are FANTASTIC! Hope this helps
ATACS patterns tend to work the best for the Midwest in my experience, especially in areas near farmland/small wooded areas.
Finnish M05-camouflage family is the best for Northern taiga. Even the Russians copied it
The Russians copy literally everything.....Don't let that national pride bias you too much....
Only thing why Russian military did not adopt the camo was because it was already in use in their neighbouring country. And no, it is not the national bias, just the best camo family lol.
@@vihavoittamaton849 Haha. It's definitely a decent pattern.
Mike quick question. Do you think camouflage effectiveness is enhanced by natural fibers? For example I find that Italian vegetato being made of 90% cotton works extremely well in having no shine in direct sunlight whereas I find anything polyester or nylon has a shine. Seems from videos I have watched that cotton is superior to other materials in that regard
I enjoy wearing Kryptek while shooting my .224 valkerie while rocking a "zombie" green gas station/flea market tomahawk, is this so bad?
Cool video, I'm a total camo geek too
Joking about the Kryptek but I'm a big fan of the 6 color, too. I will incorporate animal patterns sometimes too.
The reason CADPAT is so expensive is because the Canadian military is surplussing the old olive drab currently and not as much of the CADPAT, but hopefully they will surplus more so I can get some because I live in Canada and i worlds well up here. Sorry this was so long and please correct me if I’m wrong
Alpenflage for the fall seems to work well, since it has that red to match the leaves
The best camouflage for european woodland in Spring / summertime is Confusion Camouflage Green Check it out it's sooo good
Pencott Badlands works great for most of the year
If you want something for summer
Just put on a greener blouse
That works for 90% of the US
Phantomleaf wasp 2 v4 is my favorite It is great for rocky and urban
I think that a ghillie suit is the best
Even a Ghillie suit needs to be tailored to a given environment, often hand made and colors chosen by the person who's going to wear it, intentionally soiled in dirt matching the area of operation, and then local vegetation is added to the suit upon arrival. A proper Ghillie suit is also never washed.
I mean sure, you can order premade ones, but they're never as good as a hand crafted suit with the burlap cut and dyed by the user to match their specific environment.
Ghillie suits are really good but they're heavy and *incredibly* warm
There is no best, there is only what is useful for the mission and environment. Some are better in selective environments, and some are decent all around camos.
What is this woodland looking multicam pattern that is in the thumbnail and or may be wearing?
It depends on local weather, geological, and temperature conditions.
Painters coveralls work great for snow camo
Try AUSCAM, I am not a fan but its all about how effective it is
I want to use marpat but im not sure if that's the best pattern for western New York
Damn, There is a floating head
Rhodesean comes pretty close.
It's the ucp. Argue in the comments
ERDL lowland for me...
What is the best pattern for Iraq?
I go hunting in urban areas hehe
In your opinion what's your favorite historical camo pattern?
I don't have a "favorite" anything of this sort, but I have groups of patterns that I like better than most, and Mitchell Pattern is definitely one of those.
My favorite camo for looks and how iconic it is, is the Vietnam war era US big leaf camo helmet cover.
For looks and iconography, it's definitely in my top 5.
Inb4 Rhodesian boys
What’s the best for central Wisconsin?
Again, refer to how to ask a detailed question.
ss dot 44 best camo
ACU, hands down, is the absolute best camo pattern
Too bad ACU is the cut of a uniform, not the pattern.......Nice try though.
@@MikeB128 I honestly did not know that, and after doing some research I found out that I should have said UCP instead. I did intend for this comment to be a joke based on the AngryCops video flaming the ACU pattern
Velcro at night on a foot patrol when you want a snack (while you are waiting for your FRACU from supply): "let me sing you the song of my people".
Woodland Camo.
The best camo pattern is flecktarn. Simple.
Ha, ok.