Mossy Oak & Realtree Camo Buyer¿s Guide

While several other fine camo patterns exist in today's market, there's little doubt that two companies have set the standard for camouflage excellence over the past few decades. Mossy Oak and Realtree were not only early pioneers in the camouflage revolution, their many and varied patterns have been helping hunters realize more success for some 30 years. Here's a guide to their current, wide-ranging patterns.

Mossy Oak Break-up COUNTRY

Mossy Oak Break-Up COUNTRY

Using dramatically larger limbs, leaves, bark, branches, and other digitally enhanced natural elements, new Break-Up COUNTRY is designed to annihilate your outline and fuse you with the terrain like no pattern that has come before itat any distance, anywhere across the country. For whatever game you hunt, Break-Up Country is designed to offer up a new level of versatility.

Mossy Oak Obsession

Mossy Oak Obsession

Being invisible to turkeys has been a lifelong goal for Toxey Haas, founder of Mossy Oak. The result of this relentless drive is one of the best spring turkey hunting patterns available, appropriately named Obsession. Early season deer, bear and other hunters will also benefit from this versatile green -based pattern that builds on the success of the elements used in Mossy Oak Break-Up, such as ghost shadows and realistic limbs, when the woods are taking on spring colors. These elements include a digitally enhanced, lighter background and the addition of carefully selected leaves and spring tones.

Mossy Oak Treestand

Mossy Oak Treestand

This proven pattern is purpose-built for dedicated whitetailers using the tactic they rely on mostto defeat a deer's eye from ground level looking up. Its digitally enhanced bark, leaves, limbs, and neutral tones fuse you with sparse fall timber like no other pattern. Large, open spaces disrupt your outline, while its depth and photo-real detail work double-time to blend you with your surroundings.

Mossy Oak Shadow Grass

Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades

The pattern dedicated waterfowlers have been waiting for. More than 25 years in development, researchers found that the most versatile and effective waterfowl pattern was one that was purely grass. Shadow Grass Blades uses a combination of large, distinctive grass blades in natural positions with shadows falling across each other on a thatch background. The thatch background with its small grass moving from light to dark spots creates depth and distance for an ultra-realistic, 3D appearance.

Mossy Oak Brush

Mossy Oak Brush

Designed specifically with the Western big game hunter in mind, Brush features the open and neutral shades found all over the West from southern New Mexico to northern Montana. Brush introduces a completely new background of dead grasses and dirt, a base coloration that blends into virtually any open country surrounding, varying sizes and shades of authentic brush and other native plants and soft, naturally occurring shadow patterns.

Mossy Oak Bottomland

Mossy Oak Bottomland

Bottomland is Mossy Oak's original camo pattern created by Toxey Haas 25 years ago. Today's enhanced version preserves the original design while applying advanced technology for increased effectiveness, offering the same field-proven components and colors, the same dirt and bark elements, the same ability to blend into dark environments and obscure a hunter's outline from every angleall carefully enhanced with digital technology for even greater subtlety and realism.

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Realtree MAX-1 XT Camo

Realtree MAX-1 XT Camo

Realtree MAX-1 XT allows you to eXTend your hunt into all types of terrain, and excels when the goal is melting into the smallest amount of cover availablemeaning most any open-country scenario. It's also incredibly effective in woody cover as well.

Realtree MAX-5 Camo

Realtree MAX-5 Camo

Built with waterfowlers in mind, Realtree MAX-5 is filled with cattails, reeds, cane, and grasses to blend into flooded marshes. Plus corn, wheat, oats, and sunflowers to hide you in open fields. It has branches, twigs, and leaves that work in flooded timber. And with open areas that mimic mud, water, bark, and shadows, MAX-5 literally adds another layer of invisibilityno matter where or how you use it.

Realtree Xtra Camo

Realtree Xtra Camo

The Xtra in Realtree Xtra stands for extra effectiveness in the field. By using 12 warm, natural colors and a 3D effect, this pattern blends perfectly year-round in a variety of habitats. It blends best from the leaf change of fall through winter, then again in early spring before green-out. Proprietary printing technology allows layering of sharp foreground elements over a progressively ghosted mid-ground and very soft background. Included are tree trunks, large and small limbs, leaves of many types and colors, and large open areas.

Realtree Xtra Green Camo

Realtree Xtra Green Camo

Named for its extra effectiveness, Realtree Xtra Green camo is designed to be the best early-season pattern on the marketor any time the situation calls for green. Use it from early fall bowhunting, muzzleloading and gun seasons until the leaves change, and then again from mid- to late spring. Proprietary printing technology creates three distinct layers of pattern, combining leaves, colors, open areas, and extreme contrast in a multidirectional design that blends with nearly any green habitat.

Realtree MAX-4 Waterfowl Camo

Realtree MAX-4 Waterfowl Camo

Realtree MAX-4 wetlands camo is one of the most-successful duck hunting camo patterns ever designed. It is the culmination of Bill Jordan's years of experience creating and marketing camo designsfeaturing cattails, millet, milo, cornstalks, sunflowers, oak and maple leaves, cedar and oak limbs, and a variety of plant life. It allows you to hide from waterfowl in any open terrainwithout geographical limitations.

Realtree AP Camo

Realtree AP Camo

Realtree AP Camo is neutral, open, contrasty, and realisticeverything a hunting camo needs to be versatile and effective. It features an improved, High Definition printing process so the pattern also stands up to the real-life effects of nature (and your washing machine) and holds its contrast. The AP means all purpose, and you'll find it lives up to its name.

Realtree APG Camo

Realtree APG Camo

Realtree APG is lighter, more open, more neutral-toned, and more contrasty than many other green -based patterns. It's an ideal turkey hunting camosimilar to Realtree AP but with added olive green accents to give you more concealment options in early fall and spring. It's printed using an industry-leading High Definition imaging process, so it melts into hardwoods, pine thickets, prairies, river bottoms, and other environments.

Realtree Advantage Timber Camo

Advantage Timber Camo

Advantage Timber Camo offers lifelike color reproduction, unmatched definition, exceptional contrast, and excellent 3D effects. It's an ideal deer hunting camo, whether you hunt from tree stands or ground blinds. With more leaf colors than any other camo, Advantage Timber is effective in a wide range of habitats for deer, elk, turkey, and duck.

Realtree AP Blaze Camo

Realtree AP Blaze Camo

Realtree AP Blaze Camo offers the perfect combination of color and camouflage. It's the ideal hunter orange camo for deer season. The blaze orange camo effectively reveals hunters to other humans, while concealing them from the color-blind eyes of deer.

Realtree AP Snow Camo

Realtree AP Snow Camo

With Realtree AP Snow camouflage you'll be ready when that monster late-season buck appears in range. The weather outside might be frightful, but you'll be ready with white camo that's designed to let you become one with the snowy landscape.

Realtree Hardwoods Green HD Camo

Realtree Hardwoods Green HD Camo

Realtree Hardwoods Green HD Camo is a season and region option requested by many avid hunters. The ultra-realistic pattern is effective for use wherever green is visible. And don't be misleadthis is a versatile pattern designed for year-round use, even in the depths of winter.

Realtree Hardwoods HD Camo

Realtree Hardwoods HD Camo

Realtree Hardwoods HD Camo is another season and region option hunters asked for, and this ultra-realistic pattern is effective and versatile across the seasonsit even works in the depths of winter.

Realtree MAX-1 Camo

Realtree MAX-1 Camo

Realtree MAX-1 Camo lets hunters in broad terrain melt into their surroundings. MAX-1 combines a perfect balance of neutral earth tones, prairie grasses, brush, rock, sage, and open zoneswith just a hint of shadows for added depth and realism. Use this versatile pattern as your go-to for hunting sage-covered hillsides, mesquite flats, croplands, and wide-open prairies. Also choose it for deserts and rocky terrain, for hunting mule deer, whitetail, pronghorn, elk, and turkey; it's also ideal for predators.

If you are still not sure what Realtree pattern will work for your hunting needs Realtree has an online guide to help. Just state the game you are hunting, region and landscape and it will offer some suggestions.