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Build your own ghillie suit: Here are some free tips on how you can make or build your own guille suit cheap for hunting, military, or even paintball. Modern ghillies are made from a varitety of materials not just burlap sewn to uniforms like more traditional ghillie suits. High denier polyester and nylon fabric will fray and look like burlap, but don't retain water like burlap. Course hemp gives a natural look and gives strength to your camouflage. They can weigh up to 25 depending on how they were built and provides insulation so keeping a good airflow if you wish to travel is important. These homemade ghillie suits are even worn by professional military snipers. You can make your own set by buying camo netting and base camos. Undergarments for modern ghillie suits are flight suits, uniform tops, or mechanic's coveralls. Newer suits are using strong and heavy but close knit mesquito type of netting that allows the suit to breathe and keeps it light. When building your ghillie suit, you can purchase a woodland base fairly cheap for around 35 dollars. A 10 by 10 foot sheet of netting should be enough and you can buy that for under $20. You can use burlap from a fabric shop and some very heavy thread and you build your own military ghillie suit. This is a mock construction but it gives you an idea of the basics of making your own gillie suit. Whether you're interested in building your ultimate ghillie suit or are looking for ghillie suits for sale, take a look at the selection below.
History of ghillie suits: The term "Ghillie" comes the Gaelic word "gillie", which means servant. Scottish landlords would hire wardens to stop the poaching on their estates and became known as "ghillies". A gillie would sometimes make a ghille suit out of rags and hide himself in the terrain. These suits came to be known as "Ghillie Suits". Today's, gillie suits are primarily for the sniper and bowhunters ghillie. It is believed the term comes from those hunting the bird called the snipe. It is so wary that the only way to hunt them is from long range. To hit a bird at that range in the 1800's was an extemely difficult shot, hence the term "sniper". Ghille camouflage became a natural progression for the sniper.
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The Ghille Store - Nice collection of more extreme ghillie suit kits for sale. Good prices and a good selection make this store a good buy.
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