What?s your favorite camo pattern

Gr8bawana

Veteran member
Aug 14, 2014
2,671
605
Nevada
I think the Kuiu VIAS is the best - had my largest Bull at 16 yards looking right through me - screaming and never had a clue I was there -
My brother and I had a bull screaming at us from about the same range. We wear cheap surplus BDU's in either desert or woodland. The bull never knew we were there. It didn't matter that we weren't wearing the "cool kids" overpriced camo.
 
Last edited:

mcseal2

Veteran member
Mar 1, 2011
1,172
196
midwest
For hunting later fall and winter in our dormant big bluestem grass for deer and coyotes I really like ASAT. I often wear ASAT tops over Cabelas MT50 uninsulated bibs in Outfitter camo. Around home I'm not often hiking so far that bibs don't work, and I don't have to worry about a shirt coming untucked and getting a breeze up my back with the bibs calling predators. Sitka's waterfowl camo blends in great in our grass too later in the year. Others I like around home before the grass all dies or hunting out West are: Mossy Oak Brush, Kryptek Highlander, and to a lesser degree First Lite Cipher. I wish FL had kept ASAT around, but Cipher isn't to bad a pattern.
 

tdcour

Veteran member
Feb 28, 2013
1,100
26
Central Kansas
I'm more about the performance of the clothes vs camo pattern. I have some kuiu vias that I like and don't like. Seems like about half the time it is too dark and others its about right. I use solids for my bottoms. Kuiu major brown and the Prana of the same color... mud maybe is what they call it. Dad has some sitka that are a tan/camel kind of color that I like. I just can't mentally get myself to go all earth tone solids yet.
 

hunttrap

Active Member
Jan 22, 2016
219
85
Eastern Nebraska
In my experience most camo patterns that I have seen seem to be to "bright." I get best results for blending into the environment after I have had the garmet for a few seasons and it is faded. I hate "new" camo, either to dark or green or whatever color. Look at a forest in the fall and spring, everything is faded with lots of grays, brown, and reds. None of them are bright, but faded. Thats my preference. My faded gillie suit makes me invisible
 

prhunter

Active Member
Apr 18, 2016
445
328
West Texas
I happen to like the "Natural Gear" camo. Not very popular but its what I use most. To me it appears to blend in well with almost everything.
 

RyanT

New Member
Feb 15, 2018
8
0
Utah
GearLobo.com
I used to be big on camo, but now not so much. I am not terribly concerned about the pattern, and the more I hunt, the more I have moved back to solid patterns in earth tones where I can use the gear for other activities.

Another reason for moving to solids is that we hunt more and more in areas that have a strong liberal population (like certain areas of Colorado or Arizona come to mind) and I really don't want to stand out when I am in town buying groceries, at a restaurant for dinner after a day of hunting or leaving a hotel room early in the morning. For example, last year we based a Colorado deer hunt out of a condo in a ski town. No one bats an eye if you are in solid color outdoor gear.

Part of my shift has been the difficulty in getting quality camo gear for my wife, but I can get earth tone solids for her. In our hunts together, I have never seen that camo made the difference in a hunt.

All that said...if you are a camo guy, I think you should generally pick the pattern you like as I doubt the pattern will make much of a difference. If you want to be more critical in your selection, go tans for desert and greens for forest hunts.

In pretty much every situation I can think where camo might have made the difference, I think avoiding movement was far more critical.
Been thinking about this myself actually... especially in restaurants to or from...
 

Timberstalker

Veteran member
Feb 1, 2012
2,242
6
Bend, Or
I try to steer away from camo as much as possible, I like to blend into the general public. I do have camo and do wear it but it’s all about comfort for me, not pattern. I wear my hunting clothes all year long an I actually feel like a dork if I’m all camo’ed out.

That being said it would be weird to see a hunter on the cover of a hunting magazine not wearing camo.
 
Last edited: