Ghillie Suit Buying Guide
This ghillie suit offers full coverage with jacket, pants, full cover hood, and gun wrap.
How do you know which ghillie suit is the right one for you? Here are a few basic questions you need to answer before deciding which ghillie suit to buy.
How much coverage do you need?
One of the first questions to ask is how much of your body the ghillie suit needs to cover. Some ponchos cover only the top half of your body, allowing for free movement but requiring tall vegetation to camouflage the lower half of the body. Other ponchos extend to your knees or even down to your feet, offering more coverage. A sniper suit includes camouflage strands on only the back side of the suit for coverage while lying down and crawling across open areas. A jacket, pants, hat (or hood), and gun wrap offer the most coverage possible.
How freely do you need to be able to move?
The next question to ask is what you will be doing while wearing the suit. Are you walking through dense brush? Crawling on your belly across an open field? Running from tree to tree? The style of the ghillie suit will determine how easily you can move while wearing it. A poncho suit that comes down to your feet will get in the way if you need to crawl or run. A jacket and pants set gives you more freedom of movement, letting you run and move faster than you could while wearing a poncho. A sniper suit has no strands on the front, which allows you to crawl without getting snagged on anything.
The sniper ghillie suit has no strands on the front, allowing you to crawl or lie on the ground.
Speaking of getting snagged, another thing to remember is that if you are moving through dense brush, jute strands will pick up leaves and stickers and catch on branches more easily than synthetic strands. If you will move through dense brush often while wearing the suit, look for a suit with synthetic strands.
How lightweight do you want the suit to be?
Depending on the type of strand material used, the type of suit material used, and the thickness of the strands. Natural strands, such as jute, are heavier than synthetic strands. If you wear your suit in hot, humid weather, consider choosing a ghillie suit with synthetic strands. If you prefer the natural strands for their lack of odor (such as for hunting) or you wear the suit in colder weather, you may want to consider a suit made with jute strands.
Note that the more strands (artifical or natural) that are tied to the suit, the heavier the suit will be. For a lighter suit and thinner camouflage, remove some of the strands from the suit.
What kind of camouflage do you need?
The color and pattern of the strands should match the area where you will most often be wearing the suit. There are ghillie suits designed to match woodland terrain, mossy areas, deserts, areas with heavy foliage, and more. Find a color and pattern that most closely matches your environment. Then customize the suit by adding or removing strands as needed to perfectly match the landscape.
