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Ideal DIY Lightweight Ghillie Suit Build

I am seriously considering making a ghillie...wait for it... apron this year.
My thought process brought me to this because I am going to stake it out on the ground a bunch this coming season because visibility in these Central Florida public land swamps is BETTER from the ground in all of the areas with deer and hog tracks.
I do NOT want to try and fight the heat in a full body ghillie so if I sit in a chair, the breakup of human form will be around my head/shoulder area (ghillie hat) and the 90 degree bend formed from my legs while seated. If I make an apron of sorts, my theory is that I can put it on when I sit down. I am not going to still hunt with it on, only sit on a chair next to a tree.

I am thinking badminton netting and some very lightweight streamers of cloth, no twine or rope on this one because I need to keep the weight DOWN to make it remotely bearable to wear.

Another way I see it is, if anyone sees me in it then the ghillie didn't work and I would deserve the laughs it caused!
See you in the woods; hope you don't see me...
Did you ever make the apron? I'm curious about how it'd work with a pac seat. I've considered buying a ghillie blanket and making a sort of hat/cape out of a ball cap. I feel like if you draped the blanket over your lap and lower torso and let it drag the ground it'd really break you up but leave your arms free.
 
Did you ever make the apron? I'm curious about how it'd work with a pac seat. I've considered buying a ghillie blanket and making a sort of hat/cape out of a ball cap. I feel like if you draped the blanket over your lap and lower torso and let it drag the ground it'd really break you up but leave your arms free.
U want a cloak of invisibility too?
 
U want a cloak of invisibility too?
I'm torn. I bought, modified, and discarded a sapper kill suit last year. Felt like the hassle of packing and wearing it didn't outweigh the benefit it offered.

I've worn ghillies, built blinds, and just sat in a place where I felt sneaky. Honestly, I've had the most luck with the last option. Quick and easy for sure. I almost feel like a ghillie or blind just makes you a bigger thing that wasn't there yesterday.

But I really feel exposed sometimes.
 
I'm torn. I bought, modified, and discarded a sapper kill suit last year. Felt like the hassle of packing and wearing it didn't outweigh the benefit it offered.

I've worn ghillies, built blinds, and just sat in a place where I felt sneaky. Honestly, I've had the most luck with the last option. Quick and easy for sure. I almost feel like a ghillie or blind just makes you a bigger thing that wasn't there yesterday.

But I really feel exposed sometimes.
To the nutter nut swingers.....good news for u guys this season!

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Did you ever make the apron? I'm curious about how it'd work with a pac seat. I've considered buying a ghillie blanket and making a sort of hat/cape out of a ball cap. I feel like if you draped the blanket over your lap and lower torso and let it drag the ground it'd really break you up but leave your arms free.

Ghillie suit man, it will be a guillie suit not an apron!! Hahahaha
I haven't, actually I haven't given it too much thought since that post even though I did subsequently buy and receive my Pacseat. Having written that, I also have some bolts and a mini drill coming if that tells you how often I ping-pong bright hunting ideas in my little brain.

But now that you brought it up again if the purpose of a ghillie suit (even if it is shaped SIMILAR to an apron (haha)) is to blend into your surroundings I would do well to mimic a palmetto patch because there are LOTS of them where I hunt for hogs. The easiest, lightest, and coolest way to do that is to use the real deal. I may cut some and lean it against me or shove them in the ground close to me like a makeshift blind.

As the weather cools off I will probably get more serious about my apron idea with as light weight materials as I can find. If I make one I may post pictures - but the first one on here to say I look like a drunk Chef Boyardee is going to be sorry...somehow...
 
I'm torn. I bought, modified, and discarded a sapper kill suit last year. Felt like the hassle of packing and wearing it didn't outweigh the benefit it offered.

I've worn ghillies, built blinds, and just sat in a place where I felt sneaky. Honestly, I've had the most luck with the last option. Quick and easy for sure. I almost feel like a ghillie or blind just makes you a bigger thing that wasn't there yesterday.

But I really feel exposed sometimes.
Nothing beats being downwind and being still when it comes to hunting deer. In the 70's army green was the hunting outfit with post Vietnam surplus flooding the market. Millions of hunters shot millions of deer in green army jackets and combat boots. Today millions of hunters shoot millions of deer wearing the latest "high-tech" camo patterns covered in a huge orange vest....
 
Somewhat late to this but I know several people that have "mosquito netting" suits (pants and shirt) that they just sewed strips of material to... super lightweight, breathable, and just as effective as any other suit I've heard of that were heavier, hotter, and a lot more expensive.
 
Have any of you tried this? saw it on Camofire and thought it’s too good to be true but the chair looks like a budget alternative to the pricey pac seats.
( must resist….)
 

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I’ve been trying different lightweight options this winter.
I still have to try a red bearded viper and will try to get some pics when I wear one with a bow.
I’ve been packing one in when I scout and my youngest daughter likes to make the hats

3 way tie for me- until I drop something wearing one.

1# leafy bug suit - lightest option by far, mine is an old underbrush, weighs about 6 oz. not really diy unless you start trimming the hood or leafy stuff.( Cost effective)
1# Ghillie boonie - skip the leafy or ghillie altogether and throw this in your pack, it breaks up your head and shoulders
1# “ Dave T “- boonie and first lite leafy. I trimmed the chest and bow arm of used top.
The leafy fits in the hat with a face mask

3# I saw a YouTube by the Untamed where they diy a shirt into a slick Ghillie, I planned to do this but modified this method by only adding net material on upper arms and drawing arm.
Nothing on chest and light material on the back as the boonie provides cover here
It was tedious sewing Ghillie net onto the shirt.
I ended up tacking the Ghillie in a viper pattern with an industrial hot melt and tied jute/ burlap etc.
Good concept and winter project . It’s a bit dumb to buy all the individual material vs just tying old camo or burlap / blind material to gear you already own.

I have a old pair of bushrag pants the actual ghillie types are great at blending in but not practical to move in or shoot from.
If I had a really consistent spot like a stream crossing I might consider using.
When I have hung cameras at really worn crossings , I only get pictures of multiple deer 4-5x in a week or 2 and I’ll run a lightweight version if I sit these without climbing

pics below
 

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Resurrecting a necro-thread with relevant links... Looks like one German Army vet's evolution of a concept.

I'm really intrigued by the idea for the hood here. Very versatile. I can see using this in 'bino mode' for glassing, or turkey hunting.


Since we're saddle hunters, his video on a backed-up extended rappel seems relevant:
 
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