For years it was a marketing coup to introduce a new pattern at the annual SHOT Show with Realtree and Mossy Oak volleying back and forth for market shares. New camo hunting patterns popped up as fast as anything else in the hunting related marketplace. Since or in between, dozens of other patterns came out, flared up, and burned away. Later, Toxey Haas of West Point, Mississippi branded his Mossy Oak line of patterns. Fast forward the clock when Bill Jordan of Georgia developed his Realtree line of hunting camouflage patterns. Naturally if you stood by a tree then Trebark hid you. Shortly thereafter Trebark came on the scene from the creations of Jim Crumley about 1972. It actually worked fairly well in the oak-hickory woods of Missouri, but alas it was green and black in a woods of winter browns and earth tones. My first camo coat was an M-65 Army jacket in Tiger Stripe. When I started deer hunting in 1970 the only real camouflage of any sort was WWII old olive drab blotches or Vietnam War Tiger Stripe. Hunting camo has an interesting history as I recall it. There are so many patterns out there today that surely practically every hunter has to be wondering “what the hey.” Most hunters just pick a pattern they like, or are brand loyal to, or the clothing item that fits well with hopes that it will wear well. Hunters seem to be in the midst of a camo war of sorts.
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