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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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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