Fieldcraft Camo Opinions

[EricF517]

Well did some testing of the camo patterns I was thinking about repainting my rifle with. I used Khaki background on one, Nutmeg on another, and OD. The wife wanted to try her own idea, those are the two smaller pieces of cardboard. If I would have not had so much of the OD in a line I think I would like it the most.

OD background

Khaki background

Nutmeg background

Wifes, one Khaki, one Nutmeg

On the fence line, OD, Nutmeg, Khaki, the wife's 2

Same order

OD, Khaki, Nutmeg, the wife's 2

 

[EricF517]

Re: Camo Opinions

OD

Nutmeg

Khaki

Wife's 2

 

[K2Ballistics]

Re: Camo Opinions

The key to good camo is to break up a familar outline. Bigger patterns work well, especially as distance grows. Notice how your square cutout looked more and more like a square cutout as your pictures moved further away. Smaller patterns become one big blob at distance negating the intent.

Just my $.02....

But, if you are going for "cool", then hell, I liked 'em all! But, especially #1.

 

[USMC mustang]

Re: Camo Opinions

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: K2Ballistics</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The key to good camo is to break up a familar outline. Bigger patterns work well, especially as distance grows. Notice how your square cutout looked more and more like a square cutout as your pictures moved further away. Smaller patterns become one big blob at distance negating the intent.

Just my $.02....

But, if you are going for "cool", then hell, I liked 'em all! But, especially #1.</div></div>

+1. Go with pattern #1 with the OD background.

 

[Exo]

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the first one or the last one...

 

[TheLlam]

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#1 had enough darker shading to blend into shadows yet was light enough to work in the grass. I like your wife's, but I think the colors are little too over each other instead of contrasting themselves.
$.02

 

[USGUNWORKS]

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I like the OD. Looks pretty good to me!

 

[Greg Langelius *]

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There's a lot of vertical detail in nature.

I think that camo should start with the likeliest orientation the object will assume, fill in a nondecript generic background, all finished up with some kind of a vertical detail component.

Camo is about obliterating real outines and visual attractors, and substituting them with something that breaks up real outines and dovetals new ones into the ambient environment.

None of which works once motion is introduced.

In another current topic, comment is made that simply wearing civvies seems to work well for our enemies. Maybe not really what we're talking about here, but it does open up an interesting line of reasoning.

Looking unlike people only works where people are not a common occurrance. Where they are, 'melting in' sounds a lot like looking the same as the rest of all those other folks.

Camo is as camo does, and commonplace civvies oughta work just fine in a crowd.

Greg

 

[blksno]

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I'd re-do the test with a cardboard shape of your gun. As said before, the squares are WAY to easy to pick up the outlines.

 

[Doeboy]

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I like the first one OD

 

[KATLarsen]

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Honestly? I think using a square as your canvas mitigates any advantage one of those camos has, you might want to try something a little more rifle-ish. After that, take a good look at your home environment; note the most common four or five colors, their relative commonality (ignoring anything above six feet), their orientation in the environment itself, and then paint accordingly. FWIW, I've never been a particular fan of using really dark colors to mimic shadows, up close it does more to compromise a position than conceal and at a distance it's simpler to let nature create the shadows for you.

 

[dangerdan87]

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Replace the black with a brown.
You don't really find black as a natural color. Shadows usually create "black" in nature.