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Ghillie suites #8098867
03/13/24 01:46 PM
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Wolfdog91 Offline OP
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So anyone else mess with building them ? Hi tong with them .Made a few as a kid. Made small game hunting pretty fun.Recently learned about the newer viper and cobra hoods variants. Seemed alot more useful then the full body Walmart ones that make you look like Bigfoot or the military ones that are mainly for bing in prone. Got a viper hood for lie $30 off the ole Amazon I'm gonna start working on. It's super breathable and pretty compact.
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Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8098937
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Have a couple, love them for squirrel hunting, sliding thru the woods watching, listening and calling. If you can squirrel hunt, you can hunt anything!


Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon.

Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor.

Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!
Re: Ghillie suites [Re: BigBob] #8098958
03/13/24 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by BigBob
Have a couple, love them for squirrel hunting, sliding thru the woods watching, listening and calling. If you can squirrel hunt, you can hunt anything!

What kind do you use ? One of the big full body ones ?

Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8098961
03/13/24 04:38 PM
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So think this one is coming along half decent think the arms need more attention then anything because my head and shoulders look pretty well broken up
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Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8098992
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Originally Posted by Wolfdog91
Originally Posted by BigBob
Have a couple, love them for squirrel hunting, sliding thru the woods watching, listening and calling. If you can squirrel hunt, you can hunt anything!

What kind do you use ? One of the big full body ones ?

I have a string type pants/shirt/head cover type, and a weird looking wavy flat strip one on skeeter net type that really nice for the summer heat. Just wear a T=shirt and shorts under it. Feel a little silly putting it on with people watching, but have had folks tell me I flat out disappeared 10 ft into the woods. LOL


Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon.

Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor.

Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!
Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8099040
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Haha, tried that and figured dehydration wasn’t worth it. I sweat less in a sauna, lol!!

Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wanna Be] #8099047
03/13/24 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
Haha, tried that and figured dehydration wasn’t worth it. I sweat less in a sauna, lol!!

Yeah that why I'm going with the viper hood set up over a full body. Built some of those before and yeaaahhhh HOT. This one is really really breathable and light though. No to mention I can just stuff it in my back pack and whip it out when I need it

Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8099071
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I use the Sapper Suit from All predator calls. com. Just below knee length comes with hood and gun cover.

Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wanna Be] #8099338
03/14/24 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
Haha, tried that and figured dehydration wasn’t worth it. I sweat less in a sauna, lol!!


Add a hill of fire ants and you will set the dam thing on fire!


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Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8099357
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camouflage is over rated

works best on other humans

thermals are making that less effective


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Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8099370
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Tween the snakes and fie ants here will take my chances.


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Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8099378
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I don’t have anything I want to sneak in on that bad. The only time I’m head to toe camouflaged is for turkeys. And then again, shade and no movement will keep me hidden to make it happen.
Haven’t really tried predator calling during the day, but I’ve watched those MFK guys sit in the woods in jeans and short sleeve dark shirt and roll some coyotes. At night I think anything but white works. The only reason I wear a long sleeve at night is mainly to help with mosquitoes.
I keep my caller at least 50+ yards away and position it where I think the predator will come from and I won’t be in their line of sight. Even at night I’m using the “shade” of trees to set up under.

Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wanna Be] #8099449
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
I keep my caller at least 50+ yards away and position it where I think the predator will come from and I won’t be in their line of sight. Even at night I’m using the “shade” of trees to set up under.


^^^This^^^
And upwind. Humans are the ones that have trouble seeing in the dark. Animals and specifically predators, not so much.

Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8102329
03/18/24 12:06 AM
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I made one years ago for still hunting deer in blaze/reds/camo that we are required to wear from a poncho cover of plastic bird netting woven with 1" cloth strips knotted rug style and large knit stocking cap stripped the same for the head. Cheap and easy. A waist tie helps keep it from flopping. Works well for me if I don't feel like sitting in a stand. Except if we get full snow cover. Have a white commercial predator suit second hand for that.


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Re: Ghillie suites [Re: danny clifton] #8102445
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
camouflage is over rated

works best on other humans

thermals are making that less effective


Gerry Blair from Trapper Predator Caller called in a coyote wearing a Santa suit, possibly within range of his 10 gauge, cant remember for sure.

Re: Ghillie suites [Re: DWC] #8102535
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Originally Posted by DWC
Originally Posted by danny clifton
camouflage is over rated

works best on other humans

thermals are making that less effective


Gerry Blair from Trapper Predator Caller called in a coyote wearing a Santa suit, possibly within range of his 10 gauge, cant remember for sure.

I have one camo ball cap because it was $6 and one camo t shirt because the boys like camo and wanted me to get it. I mainly hunt in jeans and whatever clothes i have that are seasonal appropriate. Never needed camo to kill animals. It does help with people and turkies I guess . But then again my youngest killed his first turkey spot and stalk by himself when he was 7 wearing this
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Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8102732
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I also made a 6x6 white tablecloth into a poncho with an oversized pair of white painters pants for snow.


Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon.

Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor.

Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!
Re: Ghillie suites [Re: BigBob] #8102749
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I wear a leafy suit top. It’s the woodland brown color. It’s light, can wear whatever the temperature calls for under it. They are built tough, I have been wearing mine for about 3 years now. I think it helps to break up the edges, so you really don’t have an outline. I wear it for turkey and deer. I have a ghillie top and don’t wear it much anymore. I found that it tends to get tangled in most everything. I got it tangled in some rose briers one day while sneaking up on a bedded buck. Had my pack on and was not really sure I was ever going to get loose.
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This is the one I wear.


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Re: Ghillie suites [Re: matt] #8102774
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Originally Posted by matt
I got it tangled in some rose briers one day while sneaking up on a bedded buck. Had my pack on and was not really sure I was ever going to get loose.


I started carrying a hand pruners in my hunting vest because I was getting so caught up in thorny vines , black berry , multi flora rose and others

keep it for when you get stuck but I also found myself clipping a branch here or there and it really opened up the trails for easy walking later


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Re: Ghillie suites [Re: Wolfdog91] #8102789
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So take it the face paint is a bit much too huh ? grin slight side note I've had three cows try to eat me so far laugh
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