Hawkeye Review on A-TACS FG-X camo

[JohnyMac]

Here is a video from Hawkeye on a review of the A-TACS FG-X camo offered by 0241 Tactical. He posted it on American Partisan titled, Early Spring A-TACS FG-X camo testing.

Thoughts?

[patriotman]

I really like it. I want to try it out in my AO because I think it would work quite well. I check ACC and brent0331 before I purchase any camo

[JohnyMac]

Now granted Hawkeye filmed this camo review during early spring, it seemed a bit dark for his AO.

[Erick]

This X line from ATACS confuses me a bit.
I got the handle of FG and AU..

Where he was standing at first the classic ATACS FG might have been better due to all the strong leafy greens being a bit lighter.. Where he was hunkered down late in those leave his FG-X was better..

[Hawkeye]

This X line from ATACS confuses me a bit.
I got the handle of FG and AU..

Where he was standing at first the classic ATACS FG might have been better due to all the strong leafy greens being a bit lighter.. Where he was hunkered down late in those leave his FG-X was better..

FG-X: Foliage Green Xtreme - Heavy woodlands & Jungle.
iX: Intermediate Xtreme - Good general purpose intermediate pattern that does well in a broad range of environments. Is designed to work well with both FG-X and AU-X so that you can have 1 set of gear that works with all 3 patterns.
AU-X: Arid/Urban Xtreme - For dryer arid areas and urban evironments. Does have some woodland crossover capability.

[Hawkeye]

Now granted Hawkeye folmed this camo review during early spring, it seemed a bit dark for his AO.

Agreed. I'm going to retest it later in the summer, in the same area and in a different location as well.

[patriotman]

This X line from ATACS confuses me a bit.
I got the handle of FG and AU..

Where he was standing at first the classic ATACS FG might have been better due to all the strong leafy greens being a bit lighter.. Where he was hunkered down late in those leave his FG-X was better..

FG-X: Foliage Green Xtreme - Heavy woodlands & Jungle.
iX: Intermediate Xtreme - Good general purpose intermediate pattern that does well in a broad range of environments. Is designed to work well with both FG-X and AU-X so that you can have 1 set of gear that works with all 3 patterns.
AU-X: Arid/Urban Xtreme - For dryer arid areas and urban evironments. Does have some woodland crossover capability.

I do have some IX stuff and really like it but I am not 100% sold on FGX over FG. I will have to test my AO.

[Hawkeye]

This X line from ATACS confuses me a bit.
I got the handle of FG and AU..

Where he was standing at first the classic ATACS FG might have been better due to all the strong leafy greens being a bit lighter.. Where he was hunkered down late in those leave his FG-X was better..

FG-X: Foliage Green Xtreme - Heavy woodlands & Jungle.
iX: Intermediate Xtreme - Good general purpose intermediate pattern that does well in a broad range of environments. Is designed to work well with both FG-X and AU-X so that you can have 1 set of gear that works with all 3 patterns.
AU-X: Arid/Urban Xtreme - For dryer arid areas and urban evironments. Does have some woodland crossover capability.

I do have some IX stuff and really like it but I am not 100% sold on FGX over FG. I will have to test my AO.

Personally, I think for Eastern US woodlands, I like FG a bit better in general. FG-X is probably a better "jungle/tropical" pattern, but it  relies on a heavier and thicker overhead canopy. Now some thick woods of the eastern/southeastern US do have significant overhead canopy, but I thinks it's a bit to random to make FG-X a better overall choice than FG. That said, I think iX is a better choice than FG for most of the east US.

[patriotman]

This X line from ATACS confuses me a bit.
I got the handle of FG and AU..

Where he was standing at first the classic ATACS FG might have been better due to all the strong leafy greens being a bit lighter.. Where he was hunkered down late in those leave his FG-X was better..

FG-X: Foliage Green Xtreme - Heavy woodlands & Jungle.
iX: Intermediate Xtreme - Good general purpose intermediate pattern that does well in a broad range of environments. Is designed to work well with both FG-X and AU-X so that you can have 1 set of gear that works with all 3 patterns.
AU-X: Arid/Urban Xtreme - For dryer arid areas and urban evironments. Does have some woodland crossover capability.

I do have some IX stuff and really like it but I am not 100% sold on FGX over FG. I will have to test my AO.

Personally, I think for Eastern US woodlands, I like FG a bit better in general. FG-X is probably a better "jungle/tropical" pattern, but it  relies on a heavier and thicker overhead canopy. Now some thick woods of the eastern/southeastern US do have significant overhead canopy, but I thinks it's a bit to random to make FG-X a better overall choice than FG. That said, I think iX is a better choice than FG for most of the east US.

Interesting. Your thoughts mirror my own. Thanks for sharing. I did think that FGX reminded me of tiger stripe in a way.