when you next get the opportunity to enjoy nature, you will notice that nothing around you has straight lines. Most everything is either curved, crooked, bent or jagged. When there is a hunter with a rifle beside it, you would see them instantly. That is, without the right ghillie suit to equalize this unnaturalness.

Ghillie is an Scottish term for a game warden. The were given the task protecting the wildlife on their Lord's lands from poachers.While todays hunters simply don a hunting ghillie suit, the ghillies of the middle ages caught their game quite differently. The ghillies would stalk the game by concealing themselves in the field and lying motionless. Here they would wait for unsuspecting deer to wander by and then explode out and subdue it with their hands. Ghillies would now bring their prize back home so the Lord could shoot it in the castle courtyard in a mock hunt.

Of course, Most are familiar with the standard camouflage clothing. Jacket and pants with camouflage patterns that mimic nature in an attempt to offset the unnatural outline of the hunter and his gear. Sometimes this type of camouflage does work. But if you are required to go extreme and become part of your surroundings, go and get a ghillie suit.

They are used most professionally by snipers. You may have seen in recent news pictures of snipers looking half man and half vegetation. That is because nothing in nature has perfectly straight lines, so equipment like rifles and antennas most times betray hidden positions. To counter this, snipers also make little ghillie suits for their rifles. The most unnatural occurance in nature is the human form but the sniper realizes that with the proper sniper ghillie suit,he can be almost undectable.

The advantage a ghillie suit will give you over your target leaves people amazed. Airsoft and paintball players are continually impressed with the effectiveness of the paintball ghillie suit. Some of these suits are used by the military and experiences of being stepped on and walked over during scenario games are not uncommen. Prior to purchasing your own ghillie suits, look at the environment you will be using the ghillie suit in, in order to decide on the suit with the proper pattern. Generally, you will have 4 patterns to choose from and must carefully choose the pattern that matches your environment it will be used in.