Are you in the market for a ghillie suit? You’re in luck. We have a way to get one without having to fork over a lot of money.

Ghillie suits, and their 3-D camouflage patterns, have been around for a long time. Snipers in our military rely on the design to get their job done. It’s no wonder that hunters rely on this camouflage as well.

Learn how to make your own ghillie suit in just a few steps with advice from Outdoor Life.

Commercial two-dimensional camouflage is great for blending into a variety of backgrounds, but it does nothing to offset your most game-spooking signature: your silhouette. Veteran hiders—military snipers, undercover surveillants, and hard-core hunters among them—rely on 3-D camouflage, entire suits made of billowy material that blurs their outline and allows them to disappear in plain sight. These suits are derived from those created by early Scottish game keepers, called ghillies. Make your own in one day with an old jacket, burlap, netting, dental floss, sewing needles, and glue… [continued]

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