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Sniper Hunter Camouflage Ghillie Suit Hunting Paintball

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

51B1RkeySzL. SL160  Sniper Hunter Camouflage Ghillie Suit Hunting Paintball

  • SIZE XL
  • Complete Camouflage Suit
  • Designed for Snipers
  • Burlap Lightweight and Breathable

Product Description
A complete, ready to wear garment that covers your entire body and head. Complete with pants, jacket and hood. Seven shades of dyed, fire-retardant camouflage fibers sewn to the suit. No need to build your suit, it’s ready to go! Much lighter in weight than those heavy conventional suits so you get all day comfort…. More >>

Sniper Hunter Camouflage Ghillie Suit Hunting Paintball

Chameleon Synthetic Ghillie Suit

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

31TGC3INp4L. SL160  Chameleon Synthetic Ghillie Suit

  • Provides outstanding three-dimensional full body camouflage
  • More than 700 individual pieces shaped like leaves
  • Covers the entire body plus hood
  • Cool and lightweight
  • Seven colors allow you to blend in a variety of environments

Product Description
Chameleon Synthetic Ghillie Suit – 1 Piece Woodland Camouflage Synthetic Jacket/Hood Combination. Covers Entire Body With Over 700 Leaves Hand Placed to Provide Maximum Depth and Contrast. Includes Extra Leaves and Burlap In 7 Colors To Better Match Specific Terrain. Cool and Light. Weighs Only 6 lbs…. More >>

Chameleon Synthetic Ghillie Suit

Cheap Ghillie Suits for Kids

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Kids love playing army, hiding and what not. Gone are the days of simply playing “army”, today kids go all out in fulfilling their imaginations. With unprecedented wealth, relatively compared to what we or our parents grew up with, parents are facilitating their kids imaginations by giving them more realistic costumes, props and even ghillie suits for kids.

Kids Ghillie Suits are so popular that parents are hold “ghillie suit” parties for their kids and friends. As ghillies have more than one application, for kids they are most popular for playing army or acting as costumes to scare or play “big foot” in their neighborhood.

Furthermore, for many fathers, they want their kids to experience the right of passage of shooting and hunting as they did. Ghillie Suits designed for children make this right of passage and experience that much more enjoyable and fun.

Ghillie Suits for Kids are specifically designed and manufactured for children. Traditional ghillies are made from heavy burlap, which makes maneuverability very difficult for adults, and so much more difficult for kids. Which is why, kids ghillie suits are made from synthetic, lighter materials. These suits are airy, and cooler than the majority of adult version, though many now are available in lightweight synthetic version.

The most popular kids ghillie suits are the StealthSuit, and the SwissLink. The SwissLink ghillie is the most popular choice. It’s a four piece set, that includes a Jacket, Pants, Rifle Rag and Sniper Veil – all packaged in a camouflage carrying bag. This suit is available in woodland and desert. The pants have a waist that cinches up to fit the smallest waist or can fit up to a 42″ waist. The total length of the pants is 38″ and the inseam is 24″. The jacket has a 24″ torso length and measures 46″ across to fit over clothing. The neck opening is 8″.

The StealthSuit ghillie is also a four piece ghillie suit. It includes an insect-resistant inner camo pattern shell, adjustable drawstrings, and stitched thread loops for maximum quality. It is a Complete Ghillie Suit Set, available in woodland and desert Camo Pattern. The pants have Adjustable Drawstrings for Comfort, while both the jacket and pants have Elastic Support and adjustments. It is a an Ultra Light-weight ghillie, built for Agility and is under 4 lbs. It has tightly stitched water-proof Ghillie Thread Loops with breathable inner Jacket and Pants shell. For further consideration for kids it is Fire Retardant, and non-allergenic — all packaged with a camouflage carrying bag.

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DIY Ghillie Suit Kit – Make Your Own Ghillie Suit

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Nothing gives the advantage out in the field more than a Ghillie suit. They are basically an essential garment for the professional paintball player, giving a competitive edge to opposition. Its also really fun and effective to tailor make Ghillie suits, and kits are available, allowing you to custom make your suit to whichever territory you fall into. Ghillie suit kits are generally constructed using an overall as the base, normally being a Battle dress uniform or pilot suit, or otherwise a poncho can be used. Then rough burlap flaps or jute twine is attached to the overall piece, using knots, and skipping sections in which other colours are later added. This combination of colours need to be used wisely and it always pays to go out to where you will using it and absorb the landscape. An average Ghille suit will consist of 3-4 parts depending on the environment. Its good to use no seam synthetic fabric for your base overall so the suit feels smooth and comfortable to wear, along with being more lightweight and easier to move around in.

Custom making your suit will save you some good money and also offers a lot more flexibility. Normally it will take from 2-6 hours to create a Ghillie suit, depending on the kit you buy. Standard sets of Ghillie suits will come with a mix of colors to make up either a woodland, desert, mossy or leafy color scheme. With custom colour sets you can pick the exact colors you want for each bundle you get with that particular kit.

In most cases with a Ghillie suit, you get around 7 pounds of pre-cut, and dyed Jute thread, a 5′x9′ nylon net with 1″x1″ squares, and color directions on how to assemble an exact replica of the full Ghillie Poncho. Or you can remove the remove the front portion to create Sniper Ghillie suit, which is also popular. Remember to check that the materials in the Ghillie suit you are purchasing are Water-proof , Rot-proof , Mildew resistant , Fire-retardant , Washable , Odor-less and Non-Allergenic.

Desert, mossy, and woodland themes are the most common for Ghille suits. Use your imagination, the options are endless. Remember you are trying to become one with the bush, nothing in nature has perfectly straight lines so you need to cover everything. Its a good thing to create a separate Ghillie suit for your rifle as well, use local elements like twigs, branches and vines can be incorporated into the netting to further camouflage the Ghillie suit. These kits are really fun to make and can be a hobby in itself, if you are into making fly’s for trout fishing then making Ghillie suits for paintball and hunting will be right up your alley.

Kits range from around $20-$100 US, mainly depending on quality of materials. Most come with full hood and sleeves along with all the necessary items to create the finished product.

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Paintball Ghillie Suit

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Selecting a Paintball Ghillie Suit

A Ghillie suit, also known as a Yowie suit, is a form of camouflage, typically a net or cloth garment. The Ghillie suit combines a variety of camo netting, hunting blinds, and rifle camo, covered in loose strips of cloth or twine, sometimes even made to look like leaves and twigs. Supposedly the Ghillie suit was developed by some Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blind. The Loval Scouts, a Scottish Highland regiment formed by the British Army during the 2nd Boer War, is the first military unit known to use Ghillie suits. The Loval Scouts also officially became Britain’s first Sniper Unit.

The Ghillie suit helping the wearer blend in naturally to its surroundings. Ghillie Suits have effectively been used in the military for some time now and have recently been introduced into the Paintball scene, a fast growing sport already with 10 million participants in the US alone. For people who want the competitive advantage out on the paintball field, the Ghillie suit is key. Opponents will pass right by the Ghillie suit wearer, un-aware, until they get shot and never know what hit em! Whatever paintball environment you’re playing in, wood or field, the Ghillie suit can make you virtually undetectable to the competition, leaving you open to dominate on your opposition. The suit gives the wearer’s outline a three-dimensional breakup, rather than a linear one. Top shelf Ghillie Suits will actually move in the wind in the same way as surrounding foliage, making the wearer virtually invisible and a very hard target for the enemy.

Ghillie suits can be constructed in a number of ways, normally one starts with a Battle dress uniform, a pilots suit or some other form of one piece overall as the base. Then rough burlap flaps or jute twine is attached and added to the overall, usually with simple knots skipping sections in which other colours are added. The best Ghillie suits are constructed from the environments plants and foliage where one will use the suit. Ghillie suits are essentially impossible to clean. Although the underlying garments can be detached and washed, the camouflaging attachments tend to be too fragile to survive washing.

Probably the biggest draw back about using Ghillie suits are that they tend to be very hot and heavy. Even in moderate climates the temperature inside a Ghillie suit can rise to over 50 degrees Celsius, taking a lot of energy just to travel short distances. Unless treated with fire retardant these suits can also be a fire hazard, however US Army Soldier Systems Center has developed an inherently fire resistant Ghillie suit fabric to replace the jute or burla, to enhance safety.

High-quality Ghillie suits are commercially manufactured, but military snipers generally construct their own unique suits. The suits can consist from anywhere from 1 to 4 pieces. Due to the massive increase in the popularity of Paintball, a range of different Ghillie suits are now available to purchase online for affordable prices. These online merchants offer a wealth of different Ghillie suits for different purposes and environments.

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Types of Ghillie Suits

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

The word ‘ghillie’ is an old Scottish term for a special kind of game warden. Back in the day, Ghillies were made to protect the Lords land from poachers, and adopted the use of camouflage suits to help with this. They would also hide in the long grass and wait for unsuspecting game to wander by, then jump out and grab them with bare hands. They would then take their catches back to the castle so the Lord could shoot it in the castle courtyard in a “mock hunt.”

These olden day Ghillies, using their keen tracking and stalking skills combined with their incredible camouflage paved the way to the evolution of Ghille Suits. These suits completely change the odds out in the forest and make it a lot easier to hunt successfully. More recently Ghillies have been introduced into the game of paintball, giving a whole new sniper element to the game.

The base of the Ghillie is laden with heavy canvas to help pad the snipers torso during the long hours of the day while he lay on his stomach. Ghillie suits are made specifically to act as camouflage in certain environments, whether it be desert, woodland, moss or all seasons. The Ghillie suit is covered with numerous strips and strands of burlap/jute and cloth along with other natural material attached primarily to the garment. There are a range of different Ghillie suit variations for each environment, and often local elements including vines, twigs and branches are entwined into the suit. The most common are the Bow Hunter, the Bush Rag, the Stalker and the Chameleon. The strips and strands that make up the camouflage vary in length from 6-18 inches. A complete Ghillie suit may have up to 1,000 strips and strands attached to it. These attachments are what make the Ghillie suit so effective in breaking up the human form and blending with the area surroundings. Ghille suits normally come in 3-4 parts, often including Ghillie gloves, a Ghillie hat and a rifle wrap, which compliments your Ghillie suit by concealing your rifle also.

Making the right decision on what Ghillie suit to use is also very important. When hunting from a blind where only your torso is exposed a Ghillie Jacket is best to use. When hunting in thick low growing vegetation, the Ghillie Poncho will give you greater mobility and still offer all the camouflage you need. When in hunting in sparse cover its pretty hard to camouflage yourself, even with a Ghillie, you can use the base of a large tree or rock as a good way to breakup your profile, standing next to anything will improve the effectiveness of your camouflage.

These days, the top Ghillie suits have seamless, synthetic material on the inside which is comfortable and light weight. Material would also be water-proof , rot-proof , mildew resistant , fire-retardant , washable , odor-less and non-allergenic. An ultimate Ghille suit is one where one can stalk effectively but still stay very mobile, it also pays to look for breathable Ghillie suits as they tend to overheat very easily.

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ULTRA LIGHT GHILLIE JACKET & PANTS-WOODLAND

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

41KP0Z56DEL. SL160  ULTRA LIGHT GHILLIE JACKET & PANTS WOODLAND

  • Be the Tree with our Ultra-Light Ghillie jacket!
  • Lightweight, Synthetic material is easy to wear and clean
  • Provides outstanding three-dimensional full body camouflage
  • Long hooded jacket covers you from head to toe
  • Sleeves have elastic cuffs and cord locks

Product Description
Hide from your quarry and blend into the woods with this long lightweight synthetic ghillie jacket. The jacket is designed to blur and obscure your outline, helping your camouflage yourself in a forest or plains environment. This Bushrag Ultra-Light ghillie is made from scentless, lightweight string material that is much lighter and more comfortable than burlap and jute. It is also mildew resistant, scentless, non-allergenic, fire resistant, and can be hand washe… More >>

ULTRA LIGHT GHILLIE JACKET & PANTS-WOODLAND