| tracks in the mud. What went wrong? | | | | ghillie suit may be just what you need to |
| | | | break up your outline. While you don't need |
| You had no ghillie suit. Many game animals | | | | to get particularly close to your game when |
| are colorblind, and very few have decent | | | | hunting with a rifle, your range is still |
| eyesight, able only to distinguish outlines | | | | well under a deer's ability to see you. |
| and movement. Since you weren't moving, only | | | | |
| one explanation is left: your outline. Any | | | | Okay, so you're not a hunter. Why else would |
| experienced bow hunter knows that your | | | | you need a ghillie suit? There are many |
| outline can be your worst enemy. This | | | | reasons, but the most outstanding of them is |
| problem can be defeated by hiding behind a | | | | paintballing. Any avid paintballer wouldn't |
| bush, but that hinders your ability to take a | | | | be caught dead without his ghillie suit. |
| shot. When you get down to it, there is | | | | Many would even say that, without their |
| really only one solution - you need a ghillie | | | | ghillie suit, they would be caught, and they |
| suit. | | | | would be "dead." In essence, paintballers |
| | | | face the same problems that hunters do: How |
| Ghillie suits are the ultimate in camouflage, | | | | to get close to your game without being |
| designed to work so well that not even humans | | | | spotted. The effective range of most |
| are capable of detecting an experienced | | | | paintball guns is well under fifty yards, and |
| ghillie suit user. Soldiers in training have | | | | at that distance, you're faced with two |
| been known to stalk unseen within a few feet | | | | options to avoid being seen. You can either |
| of a sniper. | | | | hide behind something, listen to your |
| | | | opponent approaching and try to judge his |
| In short, the ghillie suit is the ultimate | | | | distance and location before you pop up, and |
| concealment tool. But, when and where do you | | | | start blindly firing away. Or, you can get |
| really need ultimate concealment? Obviously, | | | | yourself a ghillie suit. With a ghillie |
| a casual hiker doesn't need a ghillie suit, | | | | suit, you can calmly watch your opponent |
| but what about the weekend hunter? Oddly, | | | | approach to within ten yards. |
| many people consider hunters in ghillie suits | | | | |
| to be the hard-core type that spend weeks in | | | | Perhaps the biggest advantage ghillie suits |
| the mountains to bag record game. However, | | | | offer in the area of paintballing is that |
| ghillie suits are really designed to be the | | | | most suits cover your helmet, and a few are |
| weekend hunter's friend. Even without a | | | | bushy enough to cover your gun. Any |
| ghillie suit, anyone can bag a nice buck, if | | | | paintballer, from amateur to experienced, |
| they have a few weeks to do it, but the | | | | knows that the number one thing that stands |
| casual hunter would be hard pressed to pull | | | | out in the woods is that pitch-black helmet, |
| it off in a short weekend. Unless, of | | | | followed closely by the bulbous black hopper |
| course, he was outfitted with the cloak of | | | | or black paintball gun. You can either spend |
| invisibility, otherwise known as a ghillie | | | | the extra money to buy all these things in |
| suit. | | | | camouflage, or you can buy a ghillie suit. |
| | | | |
| One might think that a rifle hunter would | | | | I could go on, telling you about the military |
| have no use for a ghillie suit, as you must | | | | applications of ghillie suits and such, but I |
| wear bright orange during hunting season. | | | | think you are getting the general idea. |
| However, as you may recall, most big game are | | | | Ghillie suits, without a doubt, are the most |
| colorblind, and that means that the orange | | | | effective form of concealment out there |
| isn't a problem. It's the solid outline. An | | | | today; just ask anybody who has one. |
| orange ghillie vest on top of your regular | | | | |