THE
GHILLIE SUIT
WHY
IS THAT BUSH WALKING? Have
you seen a Hollywood war movie, with a sniper in it ? – You’ll normally find
the sniper dressed up in a suit, that helps him blend into the undergrowth.
This is called a ‘ghillie suit’. When wearing a well made suit, and properly
used, you should be almost impossible to spot by the enemy…. that’s the
theory anyway.
HOW’S
IT BUILT? To be truthful, I really don’t know anything more than
what I have read on a couple of webpages. Rather than plagiarize their information,
I’ll just put a link in:
- ‘Build
your own’ ghillie
– from www.ghilliesuits.com
- ‘Constructing
a Ghillie Suit’
by Cub, of the Southampton DolphiN team.
WE COME IN PEACE…
After many happy hours of tying knots in string, and fraying cloth, you too
can look like an extra out of a 1980’s episode of DrWho.
While I’m not
really after the ‘woolly mammoth’ look, you can really appreciate how useful
a suit like this could be, just don’t go out into the woods wearing this during
the bear mating season.
©2000
Arnie
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