[chaoticairsofter]

If you go to BDU.com their first picture is of this new BDU. Since my field is urban but has wood outskirts do you think this camo would work? I like the pattern but do you think it would work good as a urban sniper?

 

[newbie]

absolutely, I dont have a pair, yet but this stuff looks very good in urban, a couple of guys I play with are sporting it looks good on mout terrain, not so much in the woods though

 

[toomanybbs]

Do you mean this:
http://bdu.com/propper-poly-cotton-ripstop-acu-coats/a-tacs

Is your Urban environment dark greys and tans? It might be a bit bright for the forest outskirts.
I think it would be good if you were in a building, looking out. It would make you look like the shadows.

 

[chaoticairsofter]

Yep that the one I live in Virginia so the forests are very green and shadowy.

 

[toomanybbs]

Hmm, I don't think it will work well in the forests because it looks like it would be best in dead over-grown deserts. But it might work with urban environments.

 

[bobgengeskahn]

A-Tacs were designed for Afghanistan:

But here are some guys that used them in woodland:

 

[MGunner]

It doesnt blend great, but its seems to be OK.

 

[bud288]

I see them being a good crawl suit base.

 

[chaoticairsofter]

Thanks for the pictures 1+ for you. This really helps my decision. I cant stress enough how much this helps Since their really new and a bit pricey I think ill wait a bit till I save up some more. Thanks guys.

 

[bobgengeskahn]

$60+ for a top and $60 for bottoms for a crawl suit base that you're going to cover up with piles of jute and pad on the front? I just stick with my $14 used BDUs I get from local shops....

I can see myself getting the ACU cut pants in A-Tacs and the battle shirt they released, but I'd be getting it for desert/grassland games, not for a ghillie. The sad thing is that since these aren't going to be issue (at least there hasn't been talk that I've heard) you will be hard pressed to find these surplus.

 

[awagg]

Yeah. For ghillies of any type, I would recommend some cheap, surplus woodland camo patterns. Can't see a need for anything else unless woodland would REALLY stand out.

 

[bobgengeskahn]

I used woodland BDUs on my grassland ghillie....

I really should have brought the netting around the arms further and may still do it, but it really doesnt make that huge of a difference if I do enough blending and hang some extra jute off of it.

 

[awagg]

Yeah, but maybe if you were going for a snow ghillie, it would stick out, but for everything else... get the cheap woodland camo BDU's.

But nice ghillie, looks great!

 

[bobgengeskahn]

Yeah, but maybe if you were going for a snow ghillie, it would stick out, but for everything else... get the cheap woodland camo BDU's.

Ah, good point, I never thought of that (most people around here don't know what snow is... they freak out when it rains

). If I were to make a snow suit though I would probably use one of those nifty half zip tyvek painting suits as a base; water proof, super light...

 

[pickyertarget]

Saw this over at Soldier Systems Yesterday

 

[awagg]

Yeah, but maybe if you were going for a snow ghillie, it would stick out, but for everything else... get the cheap woodland camo BDU's.

Ah, good point, I never thought of that (most people around here don't know what snow is... they freak out when it rains

). If I were to make a snow suit though I would probably use one of those nifty half zip tyvek painting suits as a base; water proof, super light...

Yeah, gotcha... from the Bay Area too. What's up with the rain yesterday though? In june? Yuck.

But anyways, has anyone tried those A-tacs in dead grassland? Interested in trying them out. It seems like they'd blend in fairly well. The color is there, but the pattern is a little off...

 

[chaoticairsofter]

Kinda off topic but in the new transformers movie in the beginig the soldiers are wearing A-TAC in Russia. It was pretty cool.

 

[bobgengeskahn]

awagg: A local shop owner over here (friend of mine) was actually the first one to turn me onto A-Tacs. He was bragging about getting them in his shop for a month before they came in. He got them and took them out to ORD. with his team the following weekend.

He said they did decently well; although he would have preferred to have his multicam for that setting.

For pure grassland I think they would work decently, although he says theres nothing better than the British Desert DPM (short of a ghillie of course

)

 

[awagg]

Oh, haven't seen that pattern before. Yeah, A-Tacs seem destined for the middle east and other rocky areas only.

And ughh... yeah, I wish I could go to Ord for games... just 3 more years!

 

[pickyertarget]

You guys have me hooked now. I don't know whether to get the BDU coat, or order this combat shirt and wait for it.