Ultimate camo

[Sportsman]

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Donc fait beaucoup d'autres personnes et il ne les a pas empêchés

[Sportsman]

After 18 years of wearing camouflage, including times when it really mattered to be concealed, and impressing upon recruits as an instructer the importance and showing 'em how to use it properly...my pieces of camouflage kit and clothing for fishing is nil, zero, none! for never has a concept (camouflage) been so misused it has little or no application in angling, the first rule of cam is to break up the (human) shape, that suit does exactly the opposite. Disrupted pattern ('real tree' etc) on fishing tackle and on an angler serves only to show that the wearer/ user doesnt understand the concept of 'blending in'.

 

I put a smiley and a 'wink' icon after this post, but because I 'do' know how to blend it you can't see it.

 

I remember back in the early 80s I was working for an oil exploration company in Libya. We were down near the Chad border, outside Kufra oasis. Libya has invaded Chad on some pretext or other so there was a small war going on around us. We used to crewchange out of Kufra airport which also doubled as a military airbase. We were waiting on the tarmac for our transport out to the rig when a massive soviet Antonov troop transport landed bring Libyan troops back from Chad.

It disgorged hundreds of troops all in full jungle style camo battledress. Now bearing in mind that the fighting was taking place in the Sahara desert, noted for its lack of undergrowth of any kind and where there was nothing but unbroken sand I think a good piece of advice would have been "if you see a bush, shoot it, just to be on the safe side"

[Emma two]

Donc fait beaucoup d'autres personnes et il ne les a pas empêchés

 

Bien entendu, le garder,

[Emma two]

I remember back in the early 80s I was working for an oil exploration company in Libya. We were down near the Chad border, outside Kufra oasis. Libya has invaded Chad on some pretext or other so there was a small war going on around us. We used to crewchange out of Kufra airport which also doubled as a military airbase. We were waiting on the tarmac for our transport out to the rig when a massive soviet Antonov troop transport landed bring Libyan troops back from Chad.

It disgorged hundreds of troops all in full jungle style camo battledress. Now bearing in mind that the fighting was taking place in the Sahara desert, noted for its lack of undergrowth of any kind and where there was nothing but unbroken sand I think a good piece of advice would have been "if you see a bush, shoot it, just to be on the safe side"

 

 

Precisely, thats a good example, in the hands of amatures (or in that case poor conscripts who dressed in what they were told to), 'camo' is a double edges weapon, camable of revealing as much as concealing, proper soldiers know to change their 'cam' as they move from one area to another, i havn't seen carpers doing that. I have never seen 'any' angler properly breaking up their shape. It's afashion statement designed to project an air of fieldcraft mystique to the uninitiated..to the initiated it just looks ridiculous.

Edited October 3, 2011 by Emma two

[Adam247]

haha , have a few dozen ordered for a work party coming up ... paintballing will never have been so easyer hahaha!

[Nicepix]

Precisely, thats a good example, in the hands of amatures (or in that case poor conscripts who dressed in what they were told to), 'camo' is a double edges weapon, camable of revealing as much as concealing, proper soldiers know to change their 'cam' as they move from one area to another, i havn't seen carpers doing that. I have never seen 'any' angler properly breaking up their shape. It's afashion statement designed to project an air of fieldcraft mystique to the uninitiated..to the initiated it just looks ridiculous.

 

Totally agree. I shake my head in dispair when I pass a camo'd up carp angler - everything from his flask to his sleeping bag inside his bivvy is camo' and yet he casts over 80 yds to the fish.

 

The best form of camo' for close up fishing is a screen to hide any movement of the angler.

[tincatinca]

There is a good side to it though as where else could you get a pair of Goretex trousers and a jacket for £50 and unused. Got hold of some Dutch army gear and it is excellent.

[Phone]

Emma two,

 

I though "camo", in general, broke up the periphery of ones vision. Seems I read somewhere that is why "urban" camo was black and white. Toward the edge of vision that is all one sees anyway, black and white, and camo narrowed the edge. I could be all wrong (?). I don't own any and don't believe it serves a purpose fishing. I will have to admit, I am "impressed" with the degree some will go to - to "match" everything up. Without bias it is pretty cool IMO. (For an extra $3000 you can get your new $50,000 pickup truck and $35,000 boat in Realtree camo. The wait list is six weeks).

 

Phone

[Ken L]

Glad to hear that the "camo" pattern doesn't really work.

If it did, finding the gimp would be almost impossible......

[Renrag39]

Only use the ghillie suit for paintball or airsoft, could be interesting trying to cast with footlong burlap strips flapping in the breeze! Matey uses his morph suit for clubbing of all things...

Have I mentioned how satisfying it is to have someone wander right past your position and shoot them point blank in the @rse?

 

I do have a bit of army surplus gear but mainly because its pretty tough, has big pockets and their hoods are actually big enough to shelter your face, not just cover my head. Plus it's wired which is helluva handy!

 

Renrag

Edited October 4, 2011 by Renrag39