Re: Best DIY Ghillie instructions/videos and/or source
Building your own is a learning experience. You're going to find things you like and things you don't and as soon as your done following someone elses advice...you're going to realize you just spend a week building what someone ELSE thought was a good design.
You'll want to start over and you'll be modifying it immediately.
Ask anyone that's ever built one, if they were 100% satisfied and never wanted to make another to improve on the first.
I'm betting the list is VERY short.
IMO, the ghillie's of the 90s that were made out of a flight suit or BDU's are WAY too much work, and not anywhere near practical.
The hoods, drapes and kits from Tactical Concealment are top notch, but expensive, and if you don't want to scrape up the coin for that, try to reverse engineer one of your own.
I had two friends with Tactical Concealment versions, one a ROID hood, one a Cobra Hood.
I made my own because it's what I enjoy doing. It's similar, but made for me, by me.
Here is a pic with the standard veg. Different colors of dyed raffia grass. Everything else gets added in the field. I despise jute, burlap or anything else that doesn't look like grass. There isn't anything that resembles that in the locations I use it. Fellas that use them in heavily wooded areas can use it with great success. Not here.
I hunt open prairie with ZERO cover, so the only thing my suit gets is different colors of native grasses, depending on if I'm in pasture or sand hills or badlands.
Rolls into the hood and weighs roughly 1 pound. I also implemented retention cords to deploy/retract the back while in the field, so it won't snag on fences or hang up getting in/out of the truck.
