Popular Post jeremythegenius Posted August 10, 2014 Popular Post Posted August 10, 2014 Mil-Tec Ghillie suit review First off the bat, I love sniping. To me it is a way of life and not just a skill. OK, so you know me by now. I am very tight fisted to say the least. I hate buying anything that I can’t make myself for a fraction of the price. For heaven’s sake when I was eight I tried to make a bike from old scaffolding pipes. So far 95% of projects that I have attempted have been successful, the bike was not one of them and neither was my homemade ghillie suit. I have attempted to make a homemade ghillie suit five times and each time the effort was poor to say the least. The concoctions I tried to make looked a mess and fell apart in the field during nightmare game after game. I am a very counter sniper player and enjoy hunting and taking out other snipers on the opposite team. This said, it is a bit embracing as a sniper to be taken out by a girl with a bright pink two tone AK47. The last straw was when my suit fell apart and I was spotted and taken out by two guys who looked like Robert Smith of ‘The Cure’ and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance (random). So I made a bit of money recently writing for different web sites and from a few magazine articles. This money has been burning a hole in my back pocket. So I decided that in order to hone my sniper warfare skills then I would need to procure a professionally made ghillie suit using this money. In this review I will cover the Mil-Tec variant ghillie suit. The suit cost me £32.99 complete with £2.99 shipping. Altogether this is an excellent price to pay for such a suit. I went for the digital desert camouflage option, this will blend in well during the coming autumn season. The woodland camouflage suit that Mil-Tec manufactures also looks very nice as well, being greener and darker in colour. So I ordered it on a Wednesday evening and by the following Friday it arrived, nicely packaged in a sturdy cardboard box. Mil-Tec is a German company so the quality is definitely towards the higher end of products. I was so excited that I just had to try it on straight away when I got home. The first day I had great fun hiding in the garden, then for my girlfriend to come home at seven o’clock before I stepped out of the shrubbery to accidentally/on purpose scare the hell out of her. The ghillie suit is a four piece system. The trousers are elasticated and feature holes so you can access you pockets underneath. The jacket is airy and light weight. Made of 100% Polyester so it remains cool. The head shroud is perfect and features netting over the eyes and nose allowing for easy breathing. The fabric is very durable featuring plastic press buttons, elasticated waist and adjustable drawstrings which feel strong. The suit features elasticated ankles and buttons at the bottom of the legs which is useful for covering your feet. It is worth adding the whole set can be easily compress into small and light kit bag. The compact and packed up suit and then unfolded. The rifle scrim is the only part of the suit which is a bit too small for a sniper rifle. I use an L96 warrior and sometimes M42A1. Both are long rifles and really need extensive ghillie wrap made of burlap sacks instead. Now at first the suit camo looks as though it is too thin in places. But this is what every ghillie suit looks like at first. The fibres that the suit is made from will need to be flayed and will need to pick up debris and dirt making it look more natural over time. The US Army for instance basically get snipers to run through the woods over a whole day to break up a new ghillie suit. If it is good enough for the US Army then this is good enough for me. So I did the exact same thing but for only three hours. The more vegetation you can pick during this first outing then the more camouflage you have. Meanwhile in the UK, the most random selfie of 2014. But the hood really is that good and stays put when you are wearing it. The suit will easily tangle-up in nettles and small branches. But ghillie warfare is not about yomping for miles, it is about cover and concealment often working from a small number of hide locations. Putting the suit through its paces I headed out to my local woodland to practice. Now this is where I would need to be really stealthy as ‘normal’ people use these woods as well. I crossed a public footpath in close proximity to some walkers and they didn’t even see me. I even carefully crawled within three feet of a busy road on the other side of the woods and still I was undetected having passed within ten feet of about ten different people. For quality I would give this suit a 9/10 – The suit feels durable yet amazingly light and airy Easy of putting it on 10/10 – It is really easy due to the lightweight and flexibility of the material. Build quality 9/10 – Really good and put together really well. Overall the Mil-Tec variant of ghillie suit is excellent, if you are looking and getting a four piece suit next or as a first ghillie suit then this is one that you will not regret procuring. I got my mate ‘superpaperboy1989’ to take some pictures of me in the ghillie suit in concealment. Rather than ‘Where’s Wally’, it is can you ‘Spot the Wally’? Clockwise from top left (1) next to a fence post in prone position (2) in kneeling position next to a mound of earth (3) laying down beneath a fallen tree and (4) in a bush in prone position. Cheers for reading and please feel free to post your comments. Be kind to pigeons Jez Caliber, team flex, Dan88 and 2 others 5
MikeMarden Posted August 10, 2014 Posted August 10, 2014 Great review Jez, Looking into a ghille suit, i've already got Mil-Tec camo gear which from a quality perspective is top notch, given the suit is only a tad over £30 as well then it's amazing value for money. Checked your pics, yep… you're definitely hidden alright! Keep up the great work Mike
Airsoft_Mr B Posted August 10, 2014 Posted August 10, 2014 Awesome write up. Entertaining as well Might have to pick one of these up myself now. Hang on only £33? They're on Military 1st for £60!
AirsoftTed Posted August 10, 2014 Posted August 10, 2014 Mil1st can be a bit pricey on some things, they sell the miltec recon tent for around £80 IIRC but I got mine for £50 on amazon Airsoft_Mr B 1
jeremythegenius Posted August 10, 2014 Author Posted August 10, 2014 Amazing how much the prices have dropped, last year ghillie suits were selling for £89, Military 1st offer them for £59.99 and as Teddybhoy says they cost £32 from Amazon, pays if you shop around. Thanks guys for the great comments, much appreciated. AirsoftTed 1
Happy Posted August 10, 2014 Posted August 10, 2014 Nice little write up. Having just acquired a sniper rifle for the first time off DEDSEC I may invest in one of these.
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