I know some guys swear by the Rancho ghillies, but I had a Rancho Safari longcoat that didn't suit me at all. For one it was heavy, cumbersome, and generally to hot to wear through mid-season. It was also too long and I constantly tripped over it when standing up from a crouch or shifting on a stool. The burlap snagged on everything and smelled so strongly that even after several years of breaking it in (including burying it for extended periods in leaves), deer would ALWAYS snort and run from me when I got into them. The worst is that the copious amounts of burlap frillies messed something terrible with my periferal vision and I couldn't shoot worth a darn in it. (And believe, me, I really had trimmed it back.) All those problems overwhelmed the fact that nothing blended better into late autumn, brown woods, and I finally ditched it.
But because of the excellent camo affect, I've held a notion to make a simple head & shoulder ghillie from an old surplus sniper's veil...something small and light that fits in shoulder bag that you could literally drape over a boonie hat or across your shoulders to break up the worst of the human outline. I'd use shredded cotton fabric from old fatigues for the frillies, and not layer them so heavily as the Rancho. But right now it's number 1,000-something on my priority list. :p
Topic: Ghillies made for Traditional Shooters (Read 503 times)
