building your own ghillie suit

You might try Jute twine next time. Then you won't have to spend a lot of time breaking up burlap. Jute fibers are easily untwisted after it is tied. It also breaks more readily, so your less apt to get caught up in hedges, wire fence, etc.

I'm working on kind of a top cover garment that can go over a regular outfit, vest, etc. basically some laundry bag mesh (about 1/2" nylon weave) that the jute twine can be tied to like those artwork rug projects. The top will be like a jacket and the pant legs will be open seams like chaps, with large toggles (buttons) so I can get it on and off easier if I've already got a bunch of MOLLE gear on.
 
Madball13 said:
Holy crap, did you get constructive criticism in your stocking for Christmas? I'm impressed.
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It's all good. Snacks and I get in a pissing match every now and then, but it's all in good spirit. I can appreciate and respect a guy who is good with a wrench AND with a gun. And snacks is a heck of a craftsman. He brings the right mindset and attitude to the table as well. I'd have his back, well, if there's nobody else around to do it.[laugh2]
 
ok, cut about albs of burlap off as suggested. added some 1" burlap strips. left a lot of room underneath for veg.



spray painted the front, minimal burlap


hows it look guys? next up is the hat. i think I'm not even going to bother with the pants. might just leave this top as is for now, and eventually pick up some kind of one piece suit and do the whole thing, then maybe paint this one white and use for snow operating.
 
Nice work Snacks! Bet your place is covered in burlap. Ever since I pulled mine out I been finding it everywhere.
 
Netflix has a sniper school program on it. They explain pretty damn good how they make there's and how they break them in crawling through a swamp muddy river lol.

You need to roll around in mud now.
 
Looking good, snacks. More dirt, and more brown and green, and you're done. The front is fine. Remember, snipers spend most of their deployment on their bellies.
Now, don't laugh at me, I shit you not... To be prepared to do the job, I know a lot of the guys do yoga and even meditation. It helps (apparently) tremendously with those countless hours spent in the prone, on sometimes really cold (ah, the wintersin Corsica) or really hot grounds. Try a rooftop in Afrika around noon. Warm and cozy, I tell you that.
if you are still looking for a smock, I know some of the big boys from the European major players (Brits, French, German and the comrades of the Dutch marines, just to name a few) get their stuff here:
http://www.arktisusa.com/MilitaryClothing/
look at the prices and cry like I did. Note the buttons. No sniper worth his salt will use clip buttons, or even, god forbid, Velcro. Rubber bands are your friends as well. Anything that can rattle gets one to silence it. Just jump up and down a few times, and those items will out themselves.
first and most important rule: we use whatever works. It doesn't have to be the latest and greatest, it doesn't have to be all tacticool. It needs to work, period. My personal favorite: a pair of mini garden shears when out in the sticks. You'll figure it out.
 
Thats a cool start, I used to use netting when I played paintball, if you look at your environment around you and add it to your suite like leaves sticks youll have the best natural cammo.
 
BostonVI said:
Sweet project dude! When I was living in the caribbean I wanted to make a ghillie suit but it was too hot to realistically wear long pants much less an entire suit. So I settled on making a hat instead out of a boonie hat from Old Navy.
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Here's a Caribbean Ghillie Suit for yah.

Just be sure you don't get Curried by mistake.


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I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
 
I had one when I played air soft. In regards to summer time, I essentially had a ghillie cape that would offer me great camouflage without the expense of weights or having the layers to keep cool.
 
Steve Marshall said:
I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
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i have old hooded digital camo winter jacket that has shredded sleeves, time for some burlap, twine, paint and twigs. nothing wrong with not being seen.
 
01bmf said:
I see a lot of people using spray paint. Burlap takes Rit into it very well. I have a cardboard box full of green/brown/black burlap strips already dyed for doing repairs. Don't be afraid to get your hands covered in dirt and rub it into some of it either.
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This! I dyed my burlap varying degrees of green. Only downside was I had to go to school with green hands for a week.


Steve Marshall said:
I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
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I made mine when I was really big into paintball. Specifically scenario games. Now it's just one of those things I don't mind having.
 
Steve Marshall said:
I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
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Why have to have a reason? Hide from the wife when the UPS man delivers yet another heavy package.
 
Steve Marshall said:
I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
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Dude you don't have a gullie suit already?

You're an apex predator, get to it man!
 
Steve Marshall said:
I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
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i could list the reasons i attempted it, but you would probably still not understand.
 
Steve Marshall said:
I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
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WE don't need to give YOU a reason for supporting the OP in his venture. Nor do WE need to explain to YOU why we want to make them too. If you really understood wanting one, you wouldn't have made this post to begin with.

Oh, and no, I'm not kidding you...

I hope to be working on my suite soon.

AllaSnackbah said:
i could list the reasons i attempted it, but you would probably still not understand.
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Beat me by 3 minutes... [rofl2]

coastie said:
Why have to have a reason? Hide from the wife when the UPS man delivers yet another heavy package.
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I thought you just used it to hide from the wife... [rofl2]
 
Steve Marshall said:
What fathomable reason?
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If you want something a bit less frivolous than paintball, one need only look to the origin of the ghillie suit.

The name was derived from gille, the Scottish Gaelic for "servant" or a "lad".[2] In English, this term was especially used to refer to those assisting in deer hunting, deer stalking or fly fishing expeditions in the Scottish Highlands.

The ghillie suit was developed by Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blind. Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland regiment formed by the British Army during the Second Boer War, is the first known military unit to use ghillie suits.[3] In 1916, Lovat Scouts went on to become the British Army's first sniper unit.[4]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie_suit
 
Steve Marshall said:
I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
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this pisses me off the more i read it...
 
Steve Marshall said:
I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
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You can understand one guy wanting one, but not many guys wanting one? What the optimal number of people youre ok with wanting ghillie suits?

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xtry51 said:
I know why. Because it sounds a lot like this:

Why does anyone need more than 10 rounds?
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EXACTLY
 
Steve Marshall said:
I can understand a person wanting to make a ghillie suit. I do not understand the outpouring of support and suggestions. This means there are many people making ghillie suits. What fathomable reason? I keep waiting for someone to ask: why? Am I that far out of the loop? Should I build several myself to account for the different seasons as has been suggested here? Are you kidding me?
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CTpatriot said:
...nothing wrong with not being seen.
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