1. flecktarn. 2. woodland. 3. tiger

I spotted the flectarn last.

I'd have to say the Flectarn works best. The black on the tiger stripe stand out too much, though if it was back a little bit in the shadows (or under triple canopy jungle) it would probably work better. The shapes in the M81 are too large. Might work better in a deciduous forest. Just my opinion.

Best natural camouflage is the one with most brown. Remove green you’re in a sea of brown. Remove brown you have green contrasting blue. That being said the pattern doesn’t much matter it’s only job is to confuse the eye from seeing a solid shape. In heavily wooded or triple canopy peasant black pajamas work very well too especially in shadowy areas. USMC did a study and the Rhodesian brushstroke was almost adopted the Zimbabwean brushstroke wasn’t. The difference between the 2 is Rhodesian is brown base Zimbabwean is green based. So USMC/DOD did a study and discovered brown is most prevalent color not green. That’s why OD was phased out and replaced with FDE/Coyote. Even the Taiwanese added a lot of brown to tiger stripe and compressed the stripes making them very thin like a tabby cat pattern than the wider tiger/zebra print.

They’re all great, the flec appears to work the best. But you would be surprised how just about any muted earth tones blend in

Flektern blended best here. Shouldve tried multicam also

Flecktarn is best in this video

Flecktarn is the best basic camo pattern in pine forests but not in decidious forests or fields. Tiger stripe works best in all woodlands but is easy to spot when you move or in open areas and autumn or winter, it truly needs shadow and greenery. US woodland or M81 is average in all enviroments just overall good basic camo also in fields and other enviroments. Of course flecktarn works best in winter and autumn because of the orange and reddish colours. If you stay stationary as a sniper in green woodlands tiger stripe is the best camo. If i had to move through multiple different enviroments i would pick M81. That said these are not my top 5 favorite camo patterns. My top 5 is 1. Pencott green (or other variants) 2. Vegetato 3. TACS FG 4.German WW2 splinter/splitter or arid woodland 5. WW2 SS dot camo or russian partizan (similar) Vegetato truly works everywhere in all seasons

The only frustration with flecktarn is that there's a pre-2005 colourway and a post-2005 colourway. Not entirely clear if the change was a redesign, or simply a tightening of manufacturer's standards, or maybe both. In any case, it looks like you might have the much more green and lighter brown post-2005 colourway which tends to blend in very well. The pre-2005 colourway are the ones you see that can look far too light or dark (depends which manufacturer it was made by as to how the colours end up fading) and have browns that are almost orange which can often stick out like a sore thumb. Then again, some of the pre-2005 examples work great - there seems to have been a lot of inconsistency between manufacturers.

Flecktarn, hands down, but I'm still partial to tiger stripe.☮✌

Germans got it right

A lot of M81 is merely M81 style. From what I read or saw presented was that the M81 Pattern was introduced, but a larger pattern for longer distance break up was selected and so named M81. Testing Camo for me is not complete with out high noon light but placed in the fringes of shade. People trained to survive will be as deep in the shade and behind things, so flora breakup is the main concealment. But just within a shaded area you can really make a comparison. As one commentor noted, the TS worked great for Hunter/Sniper still work on the ground, so laying these down and backing off would make for a good exhibit of what they do. Not that any of this is exhaustive. Shade and Ground.

In this particular environment and foliage background, the Flecktarn seems to blend in the best. I am a huge woodland fan over just about anything else, but the German pattern is quite outstanding.

Flektarn, tiger stripe, woodland. I think the actual woodland blouse may have fit in better than the Gortex jacket it’s kind of shiny, Although I was issued that jacket and it was way better than my m65 woodland camo jacket.

Tiger stipe was developed for jungle environments, not for terrain in Europe or North America

Nice test, quick and sweet. Thanks!

Fleck is best here. LOVE M81 but man. Why couldn’t we keep ERDL camo?! Tigers like that too dark. Jungles. They make other tigers too. I love that but it doesn’t suit my AO

The idea of camouflage is not make something invisible, but to disrupt patterns. Most animals and humans can see shapes better than camo patterns. That's why the woodland and flecktarn do well in a wooded setting. Asian Tiger Stripe was meant for saw grass, tall reeds, and different shades of green foliage. It can work in a woodland setting because of the disruption of shapes.

I would have to say the flecktarn looks best. Thanks for the video. Been doing research to see what camo works best in ohio.

It might as well be like zebra stripes for the tiger stripes. The flecky has a bit over m81.

They begin to work once there is stuff in front of them.

The best is woodland as the deeper you go into the foliage the less your seen, fleck seems to be really versatile for both spring and summer, fall and winter. Tigerstripe is just for drip

Flectarn stands out the least.

I also vote for the flectarn.

The vegetation looks very similar than in Germany, where the Flecktarn was developed. So for this vegetation the Flecktarn is the best, in my opinion.

Flecktarn, tiger, woodland. But also it depends on the spot. In the shadows-tiger. In bushes - woodland. On the ground- flecktarn

It depends on distance also. The flectarn looks great here, but will look like a solid color at distance.

I like splittertarn or swedish-camo in middle-european areas in spring and summer and sumpftarn or the former Austrian Erbsentarn in autumn and winter (without snow).

M-81 the best in my view of the video... wish you the best and all your viewers...

Flecktarn is the best one.

I still use my Military issue woodland.

Flecktarn-#1

Flecktarn is way above the rest, up there with the best, ugly but good. I think the tiger looks cooler.

The flektarn blends in better with the spruce, fir, pine, cedar trees. Tiger stripe blends in better with dense fern vegetation. M-81 blends in well with dense vegetation of all kinds. Flektarn and tiger stripe are on the expensive side. One pattern you should also look into is the NWU type II (AOR- Type III) pattern uniform. It’s a digital pattern uniform that the Navy Seabees and Navy SEALS wear. It’s a woodland type pattern that blends in well. It’s on the pricey side, but it’s better than the Army ACU’s. When it comes down to dollars and cents, shop around. Used uniforms are cheaper than new ones, but check them over carefully, looking for rips/tears, missing buttons, color fading, pattern that matches the terrain you’ll be operating in. If you find ACU’s are more in your budget, get some Rit fabric dye and dye them to match the vegetation. It’s cheaper. On my ACU’s, I used Green Apple and Dark Green dyes, and the ratio I used was 1 full bottle of Green Apple and 3/4 bottle of Dark Green. Dye them over heat, let them soak for about 1-2 hours, stirring occasionally until you get the desired result. On another set, I used 1 bottle of Mocha and 3/4 bottle of Dark brown, over heat for about an hour, didn’t get the result I wanted, but a bottle of dye is cheaper than buying another uniform set. Stick with earth tone color dyes. Remember, camo patterns are just a base layer, use natural vegetation to create a full spectrum camouflage pattern to blend into the environment.

In this example I think Flecktarn blends in the best. I think tiger stripe wins on the "COOL' factor. I wore tiger stripe in country though and liked it and still have some.

Well I am not the fan of flecktarn for me it is too dark and too red yet it works quite fine in this place. Perhaps try Wz.93 or MAPA B camos!

Flecktarn woodland then tigerstripe

Flektarn ftw. That tiger stripe would work well in lower lighting though

Flèck,, woodlands, tiger. The Tiger black is to intense. The woodlands is to brown. Needs more green. I think the old jungle utilities would work much better. The USAF tiger strip would work well in the sage brush covered mountains.

My tiger Stripe never had or would have that much light color. Maybe in fall or snow. It’d be my choice.

That black bear was Charlie.. Anyway. I've success with black. I can recall in Panama days. Troopers were permitted to dye woodlands black.. And they did.

Im a longtime fan of M81, like most folks and never heard of flektarn before, as im only just now deep diving into different camos, but ... damb!, that camo is great!, leave it to those germans they know what they're doing over there!😂😂

Woodland BDU perfect, from a far I couldn't see it until you got close tiger stripe I could see it from a far

Asian Tigerstripes don't work as well in the coniferous forests of North America and Europe. There's too much contrast and the black sticks out, although there is one decent exception and that is the old ABU digital tigerstripe pattern from the USAF. Of course, the colors on it are wrong and it needs to be dyed to suit the environment. If you're back east or in Ozarks or Appalachians, dye it with some apple green Rit for summertime. If it's Autumn and everything is going dormant, use a little brown dye and don't leave it in the dye vat very long. You'll darken the ugly sage green and the tans will get very mottled. The same thing works on ACU gear as well. Goes from being Grandma's couch pattern to actually being useful in the woods. ABU is getting harder to find though since the Air Force switched to OCP.

If all you had was ECWCS, you need more M81 my friend! 😁 Fleck looks good up close and blends well in a darker environment e.g. lots of shade but it kind of turns flat at distance. So I think the woodland is the winner here. The large pattern breaks up the form of the jacket much better than the fleck which doesn't have much contrast. Tiger stripe has good contrast but the black is too stark in US forests. It would be nice to get some TS with a light brown instead of black.

in this vid, the flecktarn does best, but i think, if you would film it with more distance, 25-50 meters or more, the more effektive become the tiger stripe and m81 woodland.

I do this once a year during the season.

Flecktarn is always my default. Perfect for here in Northern Europe.

M-81; back in the 1980's I was part of the 1st issue. However I live in Kansas and none of these work on the plains 🤔

Buy a Shannon Bug Tamer jacket in Mossy Oak. Good luck on somebody seeing you. Years ago I had one of my hunting buddies walk right by me. He didn't see me, he thought that I was a bush.

Flectarn no.1 Then m81 Then tiger. I want some german oakleaf. Works great here in Oklahoma

While I didn't spot the Flecktarn at all in the thumbnail, it could be seen before you walked up on it. This test is not exhaustive enough to come to a conclusion of what is better.

I like brown mostly.

Flecktarn wins hands down.

Flectarn or M81

I state, as the previous message ! ☝️💪💯🇺🇸👏👏🙏

Maybe increasing the distance between camera and clothes would help, from this short distance you can spot all three easily.

Flecktarn, woodland, tiger stripes

Use the camo, get it dirty and let if fade a bit and it will look much more natural. You dont want the edges too hard and the color too vibrant in a natural backdrop

Check out the new experimental Cadpat. It's got more brown base.

Ah, you're not far from where I grew up in Eastern BC, Western Alberta. The Flektarn is more faded while the Woodland/Tigerstripe are both pretty bright and new in comparison. They are going to stand out a little more. I'm in the UK now, used to get British Army personnel who would boil wash several times their new DPM uniforms so they faded and didn't stand out so much, this was the good 83 pattern not so different from your Woodland. I think the Woodland would be best when it has faded a little.

Flecktarn y Woodland funcionan muy bien ,curiosamente por su aporte marrón . Sin embargo al tiger le funcionan en contra las rayas negras que destacan mucho, quizas un tiger mas tenue sirva mejor. Saludos 🇨🇱 ✌

Why is tiger in the open?

M81

Flecktarn works best un your video, i think you should try realtree camo for your area and seaon, youll find you cant see it all.

I wear tiger but my tiger wears m81. Get rothco tiger stripe.

Tiger has too much contrast between very bright and black spots. Easily detectible to a human eye. Also, black itsself is not a color you see in nature.

M81 is the winner for me by a long way tigerstrip stands out way to much a I'm definitely not a fan of flacktarn

Too much black in the camos, Black is not a good camo color.

See what shadowing at his left forearm? "Black Pajamas."