Team Camo Discussion

Ghillie suits (sorry for posting this here Mike....don't flame me) don't really go towards a camo type, they are more of an accessory for your sniper team/sniper. So whatever type of camo we go with doesn't effect the use of a ghillie suit. I plan on getting one once I get my gun in May!

Dave you got those prices yet? Does Wayne have any good cadpat in the army surplus, or is it all used?

Check the April 16-17 meeting thread for price cost to travel (roughly) Ghillie suits are very specialized and I'm sure that we would want members of our team to wear this instead of the regular camo so they can play that special roll. Like making a cardboard box tank for Doug and his support gun.

How longe till we Know what camo we're officaly going to be using as a club? And are we going to go with a club insegnia? I'ld like to know soon what type of camo I should be looking at getting. Is cadpat water proof or just water resestant? Is any of the regular camo water proof? I like to stay dry.

I'm not too sure, so maybe I'm not the one who should be answering this question, but I'm going to venture a guess and say no. Not too sure why your worried about getting wet, and wet from what? Rain?.... all I can remember is that the swiss camo that Nick had, had plastic of rubber stuff on the elbows and knees. Remember WATERPROOF does not breathe.... I don't know about you guys, but the summer can get warm and I don't want to be sweating like a banshee out there...

no combat clothing is ever water resistant except gortex, but i'm sure no one is willing to pay a couple hundred dollars for airsoft...that may be ruined. A little rain never hurts anyone....u can wear rain gear if u really want to but it makes too much noise....garbage bags have the same effect as well...besides...it barely rains in PG

I'm remembering a July last summer where it rained everyday save 4. It doesn't rain when we play airsoft-knock on wood.

I'm afraid you will not like my opinion...

I don't really like the "uniform" idea.
First reason : personnal choice
As we can see some people love CADPAT some Flecktarn and some ALPENFLAGE (ok, one...); so at the end we will have people spending money on something they don't like

Second: money :
matching uniform can be expensive ( like CADPAT, now impossible to find legally) and time consuming

Third: confusion :
if everybody is in Alpenflage (what ? why not ?) how do we make difference between friendly and ENI ?


The uniform is a good idea if we lived in Vancouver and able to play other team on a basic, but face it : we even did'nt play a game here with all the PG team, so meeting other team ...

So in fact I preffer to see people in different bdu, like a bunch of mercenaries, but fully equiped, with mask, vest, mags... better than people waiting at home for a good deal on ASC for a MARPAT set...

My advise for new player : buy a chep bdu set (even green is good), a cheap chest rig and for less than $100 you're good to go. Then you can spend money on a good gun or mags etc. Then you'll select a patern and build your kit little by little.

That's my opinion

I heard voices and they told me you have to buy Alpenflage


forget about waterproof bdu...wear bodyarmor under the bdu and you'll not feel wet.

You can always wear something underneath your equipment, try or snowpants or gators...... it'll act the same way, and I'll be sitting there laughing as you sweat to death.... I guess I'm obligated to help though... stupid first aid...

Don't worry Beach Boy I have first Aid to and I know my limits (Usualy)
If you look at some hunting gear there's water proof stuff that breaths. I'm not lieing! my buddy has some. the only problem with the stuff is price. I like water proof stuff because I spend a good part of my time flat on the wet ground trying not get shot and I like to stay dry and warm.

Gyrph you could buy a neoprene suit and get wet while staying warm. Plus you could pee and noone could track you. .

None of the guys that are into gear are going to buy hunting stuff, that's what separates airsoft from paintball and other stuff like that. Even if it's cheaper, water proof, breathable and makes you smell like a man...they still won't buy it. Purists. (this is from the guy who wears blue gators)

The more I think the more I think like Frag. Not just sucking up so Frag won't shoot a hole through me with his sniper in the bush. Maybe the way we separate teams is by helmets and boonie teams, or boots and bear feet or one team could all wear one glove. Serious about the helmets and boonie idea but you get the idea.

EDIT-where the heck am I going to buy alpenflague? I would almost consider it.

if the waterproof/breathable BDU worked, the Army would have adopted it...
Stick with real "issue" stuff

For team we can use this kind of shoulder triangle, work great :

Very true on the uniforms... I like the mercenary idea. How much friendly fire have we actually experienced? The only time I've shot at a teammate (besides my first game when I shot at Dave) was in the thick brush during that machine gun nest game and that's because I'd had to respawn and didn't realize we had a player who'd crawled nearly all the way up to the nest in my absence. I still didn't hit him because of the thick brush, but even if he'd been wearing the same uniform as me I wouldn't have been able to tell because the brush was so thick.

Matching headgear or insignias would serve the purpose and be much more affordable for everyone. If we can't tell what headgear someone is wearing from a distance then we probably aren't going to be able to tell the uniforms apart.

Besides that, I don't want Cadpat. It won't work for me up here as it's got way too much green for the thick willow brush around here (same as my DPM). That swiss stuff with the red would actually be better for here, and since I plan on playing with the FSJ guys I'm going to need some camo for this area and I don't want to buy 3 sets. Well, not yet anyway.

I like the neoprene idea... haha... think about it, no more double fly, just let'er rip... man golden idea... Frag does bring up some good points, my question is, realisticly how many games do we think we are going to play outside of Prince George? Well since they're all out of town, how many roadtrips are we going to do? Also as I type, I think Jeff was onto something like 2 pages ago with the NATO stuff... another thing I just thought of was, there are a lot of us who are younger, therefore we are probably not all going to stay in Prince George, it's going to really suck if you get all your gear together and end up not being able to use it because your new club doesn't want that camo or something..... anyways, so what are we going to decide to do?

Oh and just to clearify.... Dave, Holland is on the list... look about half way down.... Go Netherlands! Red, White, Blue!

I found that with a pair of jogging pants and a light, long sleeved shirt under my BDU's I was warm enough even when I was laying down in the snow. Even on the cold days when I got soaked, I was still fairly warm and more worried about breaking my gun than freezing my ass.

Once it starts to warm up I'll lose the extra layer, but I grew up in Kamloops so I don't expect the heat to bother me much come summer. It can't be any worse than wearing full coveralls and running an angle grinder for 8 hours when it's 40 degrees out, can it? I was drinking at least 4 litres of water per day and I was still losing weight to dehydration. Come to think of it, I could definitely stand to lose a few pounds... Airsoft bootcamp!

nick is right... lets play as mercs...wear whatever u want but it can't match...all we really need to buy is an awesome chest rig...lots of mags and a sweet weapons...then we'd be set. We can be like Black water operatives....i saw clips of the sas fighting in afghanistan and they dressed like bums...but they carried sweet weapons.

Does this mean that Chinese is going to wear non matching! I don't think I would actually recognize you on the street if you weren't wearing cadpat. Buy some flecktarn and join me. Together we shall defeat the great nation of Holland.

EDIT-you can find those fake pasgat or passat whatever they are helmets for cheap. Look great and easy to match them. I'm a boonie man myself, even though it makes me look like a really skinny tall male witch.

I'm all for defeating Holland, My X girlfriend is from there
Seriusly though I think we should just go with some sort of club ensignia, and maybe some matching head gear. Thats my vote anyways.

As long as we don't stick out like this umm.... fella, I was going to say fruit, but.... yah, I'd rather stick with a boonie and rather than umm well.... this red shoot me hat! This pic is from kelwona airsoft... I don't think I could live with myself if I had to wear one of these...

but that's not dave....his hair is too short

...and he doesn't have blue gators...

Stay away from anyone like that like 50 metres away...

Yikes is right about the hat. I keep reminds me of Dawsons Red beleclava. That was a full faced shoot me target.

If my stupid pants were longer ( and If I could find a bigger size) then I wouldn't wear those things. How do you guys keep your pants tucked in anyway?

we don't have this kind of problem : we've got normal legs