MONEY MATTERS
“More expensive brands are not always the best;
there is quality kit out there at a reasonable price
if you are willing to shop around”
half an hour crawling through a field of ferns
at Ground Zero and wasn’t spotted once by
players on either of the opposing teams –
despite there being a lot of activity in the
area, and at 6ft 2in I’m no small target. This
is the clear benefit of wearing a camouflage
pattern specifically designed for a European
environment, and at £20 for a full load-out it
was also amazingly cheap.
This argument becomes a moot point
when we look at CQB, as there is little need
to blend in. You could attend an event in any
colour combat trousers and a t-shirt – darker
colours may be preferable if you wish to hide
in dark corners. Currently I have mothballed
my Flektarn fatigues for a combination of a
DPM shirt with woodland Ripstop trousers.
These do not match perfectly but I believe
that mixing fatigues can sometimes be better
than matching, as your outline is broken up by
the difference in patterns. After all, when you
look at a woodland environment there are very
few areas with exactly the same pattern – this
was the whole purpose of a ‘disruptive pattern
material’, to break up the outline with varying
shades. This is the one area where I have
gone for value over frugality, as the Ripstopbranded trousers do as the name suggests
– the manufacturing process of the trousers
means that small rips do not spread. They may
be more expensive but they are likely to last
longer than a cheaper pair.
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