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Old Artilleryman · Guru

Ghillie Suit use

Nightsniper · Veteran Member

When wearing one you are the Blind!! I don't use the weapon wrap unless Im Crow sniping w/Rifle. Just sit still then swing you shotgun. When Sniping I have layed in the same plave fore 2 hrs and killed 5-6 the never seen it or me coming. I know when you first start out using a Ghilli and your setting there you will think,This is stupid!! But It Works!!!

Pat B · Senior Member

I tried my son's suit once (he's a designated sniper for airsoft games). Anyway, I found that all that stringy stuff snags on brush, branches, twigs, tall weeds, really bad if walking through rose bushes, picks up burrs, etc. His is made using 3 colors of burlap strips (light tan, medium brown, and black). Nylon type strips might behave different. Hated it most when I got ready to mount the gun and one strip was snagged on a low branch beside me......

Pat B

Nightsniper · Veteran Member

Most of the time I wear the Top W/Boonie Hood with ACU Pants,helps alot with snags.

Mainehunt · Guru

I made one, once upon a time. To help with mounting and swing a shotgun, I either shortened or removed some of the strips at my right shoulder area.

jonthepain · Guru

i use mine sometimes

Old Artilleryman · Guru

I'll probably spring for one but as you fellows said, modify the R shoulder and wear only the uppers--we've got too many burrs up here and picking them out after a walk through the brush would be a bugger furious !

chip · Guru

I don't think these deep south Illinois crows will fall for the suit. Hell they laughed at my lay out blind. If I didn't use it for waterfowl it would have been a waste of money. By the time guys like M-12 shooter gets done with em they are very smart time they git to me.

Mainehunt · Guru

chip wrote:
I don't think these deep south Illinois crows will fall for the suit. Hell they laughed at my lay out blind. If I didn't use it for waterfowl it would have been a waste of money. By the time guys like M-12 shooter gets done with em they are very smart time they git to me.

I use my layout blind from time to time with some success. Last Saturday was one of those days. After several different groups of hunters have pounded the same farm all season long, the crows will not fly near any structures or trees or basically anything that sticks up above knee high, Two of us put out our layout blinds and killed 21 in a couple hours. Nothing to brag about, but we would have kiled zero if trying out a regular blind. These crows won't even fly over the tire pile anymore.

Lone Star Phil · Senior Member

Craig:

I have never tried the Ghillie Suit technology. It looks heavy though.

In the South the TCP finds leafy gear type apparell is ideal. I've got a jacket and pants from Cabela's that meet my needs well. Easy on/easy off, try-to-see-me-sucker visual performance, lower leg zippers to facilitate pulling on/taking off over boots, access slits to get at your pockets and cargo pockets, zippered pockets, hood and airy enough to wear on an 80 degree day and still be comfortable. They are light weight too! The only downside is you shouldn't expect to dive into brambles and thick cover without some hold-up.

Phil

-- Edited by Lone Star Phil on Monday 25th of March 2013 12:01:46 AM

chip · Guru

Just goes to show you how smart they get by the time they get to me!!!!! There are murders of birds down here that will live to die of old age. The wierd thing is that I am the only person that hunts crows around here that I know of. Except for the occassional lop head that leans up against a tree with blue jeans and a UK hat on that shoots at em for fun.

Bob · Guru

Phil,

I know that (the CPA's) Bob & Matt are busy at this time of year, so tell them hi for me. I have to visit my CPA on May 9th to get my taxes done. So how have you been?

I picked up 16 flats of trap loads in 8's (3 dram) the other day. I'm picking up more than I need here and there just incase ammo becomes tight by next fall. Kind of an insurance policy for me.

Been doing some work on the "Crow Museum" and will post a few photos in the near future. Some of the first game callers from 1960 to 2001 are on display. Old decoys that date back to the 40's & 50's.

I was in a pool tournament last week and the only guy that beat me was me! I lost one set when I had ball in hand and I shot my opponents ball in and then the 8 ball, so I lost, I was so fixated on the two balls I needed to put down that I just forgot for a moment which one was mine! What a dummie! The only good thing was that the Hutchinson team won the match.

Bob A.

Lone Star Phil · Senior Member

Bob:

I will be joining Gadget tomorrow morning as we sortie to Dallas Love Field (I have always been partial to that name and once lived on Lovers Lane in University Park!) for a look at a Consolidated B24, a Boeing B17, the "flying Pancake", a flying Me 262 and other aeronautical wonders. The B24, which my father-in-law taught other bombadiers up at the Army Air Corp field in Childress, TX, flew right over my house at about 900 feet. Round motors are soothing!

Phil

Bob · Guru

Hi Phil,

I'm sure you guys will have a good time.

It's 9:30 A.M. and I'm on my second cup of coffee, getting ready to shovel the snow out of my driveway with in the next 15 minutes.

Bob A.

Mainehunt · Guru

Bob, just thinking of shoveling snow makes my Bach ache. I had to take it easy yesterday and not hunt crows. I dislocated my sacrum from my pelvis 2 weeks ago. It was pinching the siatic nerve. Very painful to say the least. Recooperating now.