Is Your Ghillie Suit Right for the Location?

June 21, 2007 on 3:20 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

A ghillie suit can be used for many things besides sniping. For instance, a suit could come in real handy when on recon. missions, simple observations spying, serious hunting, serious paintballing, wildlife photographing, and tracking. There are an endless number of uses for a ghillie suit but it’s up to you. After you have acquired a suit made or bought, you must know the basics on using it. First you will need to make sure your suit is the right color for your environment. The way to do this is to put on your suit, lay down in the woods, and get a friend to pick out “bald spots”, blotchy spots, dark areas, and light areas. Take the suit back inside and use these suggestions to add/remove material, even out colors spray paint works well, and darken/lighten areas. Try to match all natural colors in your region evenly. Just remember that you will be moving through different terrain so take this into mind when choosing colors. Once you think you have “perfected” your suit, it’s time to field test it. Once again get a friend and some high-powered binoculars or a spotting scope and take your suit into the woods. Go 20 - 200 yards from your partner depending on the vegetation and tie vegetation leaves, sticks, shrubs, grass, etc. from the area into your suit using the shredded burlap hint: for a quicker method, just fall backwards into some leaves and wiggle around a little. This tends to be much faster and the leaves or grass stay in pretty well. This will take a while but it will help. Then pick a good place to hide and lay down. Scoop some more vegetation over you and then tell your friend to turn around and look for you. He should try to spot you in under 5 minutes, since by then he would be dead in an actual situation of this type anyway. If he cannot, then move to another location and try again. Once you have all the proof you need that your suit works, it’s “done”. It’s ready to be used on your missions. Just use the technique with tying in fall on back in vegetation whenever you use it and keep it in working order, since they need to be mended after heavy use. Also keep in mind that movement is the key. Keep all movements to a minimum. When you must move, do so slowly and steadily. Remember: A ghillie suit is only as affective as the person wearing it!