Today I Learned

Because hunting in or near trees is different than the long grass tigers hunt in. That is why leopards and jaguars have spots instead of stripes.

Orange camouflage is like the common green camouflage pattern but all oranges or with orange mixed in.

Because it speaks to what camouflage is actually for.

This isn't Metal Gear Solid 3 where you put on the right shit and detection radiuses drop and you can sprint past a guard. Camouflage is about blending in with your background just enough that it buys you more time on the approach or makes it harder to spot you at a distance.

Tigers (orange and white or orange and black stripes) are very much meant to blend into tall grass. They sit in the grass waiting for their prey and their coloring tends to match-ish the tall grass against orange soil and sky of places like the Serengeti.

So how does that work with military camo and the like? Uhm... The effectiveness varies drastically but can best be seen with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Woodland#/media/File:BDUs-forest.jpg. Against the dirt road they stick out like a sore thumb. Against the leafy foliage? Not horrible and you could very much imagine that buying a few meters when approaching in a dense jungle. But if there are too many trees or the foliage is too green (as in that picture), the brown bits stick out a LOT.

Mostly the idea of these camouflage patterns are to minimize detection from the air and to help people hide when they are laying in wait. Which... is why snipers and the like don't rely on it. They bring tarps that better match the pattern of what they are going to lay against or wear ghillie suits that are basically mesh nets that they can stick leaves and twigs or just appropriately colored fabric into. Hell, one of the "rites of passage" of sniper schools and the like is to literally roll around in the mud in a uniform because that is going to be MUCH more effective than whatever made in china fabric the BDUs are made of. It just loses the ease of distinguishing one side from the other.

Which is why the competent cosplaying hunters don't really rely on their clothes to hide them while they are walking around and just bring a tarp to hide under while waiting in a blind. Because outside of VERY specific approaches... they are still going to stick out like a sore thumb. ESPECIALLY if they are close enough to take a shot against a deer in a dense forest.

Which gets back to the original question. Why is "blaze orange camouflage not tiger striped": Because it is a cosplay wank fantasy that lets stores jack up the prices over just buying a high vis vest that cyclists use. And the pattern genuinely does not matter because none of those colors match when you are laying down and hiding, let alone trudging along hunting trails.

My phone is borked and i didn't reread, sorry. I meant that all of the piss and shit just goes in to the water