Check out Ron's 1950's pic on the "Remember When" thread. So you are a deer and see mostly black and white. Now look at Ron in the 50's camo and look at the tree behind him. In B&W, they look almost the same. Talk about blending in! What say you?

I could see a market for vintage/classic camo patterns. And the manufactures won't have to pay royalties to Mossy Oak either...

The WWII camo worked well, but probably the very best bowhunter's camo I have ever used was pre Vietnam military Woodland camo. Especially with color blind animals, it seemed to blend with almost any background. Total break up and natural shadow type contrast. Stalked and killed many animals in my Woodland BDUs.

There are a lot of the photographic type camos out today that look great to a hunter in the store, but what I want to fool is an animal. From a marketing standpoint, just think how much more camo is sold by having different photographic prints that match specific terrain and creating a "need" for it.

Most military surplus stores have all you want and at a low price.

I have a bunch I still use!

Have it , use it and find it as effective as anything on the market . Had a flock of turkeys just feet from me several days ago w/o spooking them .

I like the old camo. Where can I get some.

WW 11impressions, they have replica camo made to specs from military specs. But be prepared, not Wally world prices. They have both Army and Marine plus what may be more like Fred Bear wore. It seems the camo used by the men who invaded Cuba ( Bay of Pigs) used hunters camo bought of the shelf.

Jim, I like your idea of bringing it back and I believe that's actually been done in small test runs, but unfortunately it doesn't market as well as Realtree and other senseless camo. My earliest memories of archers in the woods include the old WWII camo. It's contrasting colors to include some black really does fool depth perception to some degree not unlike other patterns that work, such as Predator Fall Gray and ASAT. Red and black, or green and black buffalo plaid is terrific as well. I bought one of the Asbell's wool pullovers in Timber Ghost this summer and gave it a run this season to find that it works fantastic at breaking up the outline. None of the deer I encountered this year while hunting on the ground was ever aware of my presence while I was wearing it........Lemme' see if I can find it for a pic.

Best camo clothing is to move slooowly..listen..watch..even smell..IF humans can do that anymore..:(?

I have smelled game before I saw them..as well as other 2 legged predators..

I do have some camo from the Vietnam war..Mostly tiger striped stuff....Not sure it saved a bunch of us.but we were issued it and wore it..Jim

http://www.armysurplusworld.com/display.asp? subDepartmentID=123&page=2

If I were going to use camo, and I may, it would be military surplus anyway, if for nothing more than to honor our troops in a way. The designer camo gets plenty of business anyway.

Here's that pullover I mentioned above. This is extreme color contrasting in a big pattern, which is what you want in attempting to break up your form. It's very well made, warm, light and silent.

roger, that is a nice pattern right there. Like my gray and black filson. invisible up in a big maple.

Our cammo in WWII was herringbone. Tough as heck, wears like iron. Noisy until broken in well. Had a bunker full of deuce gear, all new, that went into the base dump. Still sad about that....some uniforms too

Too bad they do not make herringbone much any more as a set of it could last 20 years

Agreed w/Roger. Timber Ghost, and patterns with similar characteristics, work great.

If you want a laugh, go into the men's casual clothes section of your local Sears store , where the new product line is Outdoor Life "vintage-look" clothing , including, you guessed it...post WWII camo shirts and Carhart-look cargo pants. I hunted a lot in the 70's with military-surplus "tiger" camo developed for Vietnam .

It's not camo, but I was wearing a 1939 service mans Rolex when I took my first deer on my Ohio land this year. Was in hopes to take a deer wearing it with a Grumley. Love vintage.

Look at the new multicam pattern that Army adopted. I'm sold on it.

"Best camo clothing is to move slooowly..listen..watch..even smell..IF humans can do that anymore..:(?"

What he said!! ^^^^

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