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Unless you have time to kill, purchasing an affordable, high quality ghillie suit might be a better route to take. Ready-made ghillie suits are just as effective and can be customized to fit your needs.

Ghillies come in 2 basic styles: ponchos and suits. They are made from several different materials. Netting, mesh, or a BDU suit is often used for the base, and burlap, jute twine, or synthetic material are used for the strands.

How Ponchos Are Made

Poncho Style

You can easily put on or remove the poncho as needed by slipping it over the top of your clothes. If you need to move through an area of dense brush, simply take off the poncho and roll it into a small bundle.

Most ponchos include a large hood with extra strands that hang over your face for concealment. Since the poncho only hangs down as far as your knees, you can walk through low brush and step over branches without getting caught on every little twig. The downside is that it’s difficult to crawl on the ground or move through dense brush while wearing a poncho.

Another advantage of the poncho is that it’s easily adaptable. You can drape the poncho over any object or stretch it overhead to provide cover and camouflage in a variety of situations.

How Ghillie Suits Are Made

Complete Ghillie Suit

The biggest advantage of a full suit is that it provides full coverage from head to toe. The BDU suit is designed for crawling on the ground, with strands located only on the back half of the suit. The BDU suit is lighter (with only half as many jute strands) and easier to run in. Depending on how you plan to use your suit, you will need to decide whether a ghillie suit (with strands on front and back) or a BDU sniper suit (strands only on back) will best meet your needs.

This type of suit is best for covering open ground. Walking through dense brush is difficult, since the strands tend to get caught on everything. Also, wearing a 3-piece ghillie suit can get fairly hot, so wear light clothing underneath to stay as cool as possible.

Ultra light ghillie suits are lighter, cooler, and more comfortable.

• “Pack the ghillie suit in. Don’t wear it because it gets caught on EVERYTHING!”
• “Wear a camo hat under the hood because it keeps the extra netting or string out of your way when aiming down the sights.”
• “Dress light because those suits can get hot.”
• “Don’t put the gun wrap on a pump action shotgun. Just bad news all around.”
• “The string ones go well in swampy areas, the netting ones go well in leafy areas.”
• “For spring – go mostly green. Fall – mostly brown.”

KillZone has a large number of ghillie suits to choose from, all at affordable prices and FREE shipping to the lower 48 states. For a limited time only, you can save an extra $15 on any KillZone ghillie suit, camo poncho, or sniper suit!

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What Is the Difference between Jute and Synthetic Ghillie Suits?

So Which Is Better?

Although up close you might see minor differences between the two types of materials (jute strands tend to be straighter and synthetic strands slightly curled), synthetic and jute ghillie suits are equally effective at blending in with the natural environment.

Some hunters prefer synthetic ghillie suits because of their light weight and their ability to keep the body cool in hot, sticky climates. Other hunters prefer the traditional choice of jute material. The choice between the two types of material is primarily a personal preference and not because one provides better camouflage than the other.

Camouflage patterns come on everything from ground blinds and clothing to ghillie suits, gun wraps, and more.

So What Makes a Good Camouflage Pattern?

For most hunting situations, how the pattern breaks up the silhouette is more important than the pattern itself, and contrast between light and dark areas is more important than color. In paintball, airsoft, and military use, however, color and pattern are more important, since you are disguising yourself from humans rather than animals.

Most experts will tell you to choose the camouflage pattern that most closely matches the environment you will be using it in. So what do you do if you hunt in a number of different environments? Or what do you do when the environment changes—for example, the leaves changing color in the fall or seasonal vegetation changing the landscape? That’s a lot of camo patterns to buy. Not to mention the variety of hunting blinds, clothing, ghillie suits, or other gear you’d need.

How Do I Choose the Best Camouflage Pattern?

Does your camouflage clothing
blend in this well?

Ironically enough, a pattern that might look wild and intimidating up close can become completely invisible at a greater distance. The choice many hunters make is to select a camo pattern based on how attractive it is. Unfortunately, attractiveness has nothing to do with how effective a camouflage pattern will be.

Loose patterns often work better than complex, detailed patterns. Also, patterns laid out over an open or neutral background help break up your profile no matter where you are hunting.

Look for contrast between light and dark. If the pattern is primarily dark and complex, it will blur into a solid color and pattern from a distance.

The best camouflage pattern is one that breaks up well in a variety of different environments. Choose your camouflage wisely, and it should work well for you in almost any setting.

All of KillZone’s Ultra Light Ghillies are water resistant, rot and mildew resistant, and hand washable!

Woodland Ghillie Camo Suit

Desert Ghillie Suit

Mossy Camo Ghillie Suit

Ghillie Suit with Natural Jute Strands

As a general rule, wash your ghillie suit only as often as you need to. A dirty suit with an earthy smell will work to your advantage on the hunt or on the playing field. Also, keep in mind that the more often you wash your ghillie suit, the faster the material will break down and the less authentic it will look.

If your ghillie suit needs washing, you have three basic options:

1. Hand wash the suit.
2. Hose it down with a low pressure hose.
3. Send it to the dry cleaners.

How To Wash A Ghillie Suit

Hand washing is the easiest way to spot clean a ghillie suit. If you just need to get out a stain, only wash the area with the stain. Spot cleaning is gentler on the material than washing the entire suit. If you only wash the area where the stain is, the fibers in the suit will not wear out as quickly.

Use cold water to wash the suit. We recommend using only water, but if the stain is too stubborn to wash out with water, then you can use a mixture of cold water and mild, unscented soap. Detergent and scented soaps are not recommended, as the scent they leave behind can give you away.

Ghillie Suit with Synthetic Leaves

If the entire suit needs to be washed, you can gently hose it down with a low pressure hose. Then allow the suit to air dry completely before reapplying fire retardant mix.

Dry cleaning is also an option for cleaning your ghillie suit. It’s the gentlest way to clean your suit and doesn’t require reapplication of fire retardant mix.

Any time you wash your ghillie suit with water, you will need to reapply fire retardant mix. Natural jute is a flammable material. Your safety requires a fresh application of fire retardant to the ghillie suit after it is completely dry. Synthetic materials also require reapplication of fire retardant.

How NOT To Wash A Ghillie Suit

NEVER wash a ghillie suit in the washing machine. The jute or mesh material will not hold up to the vigorous movement, and the strands can easily get snagged around the agitator. Machine washing causes the jute or synthetic strands to degrade prematurely. These materials may rip, shred, or take on a fluffy or fuzzy appearance.

NEVER dry a ghillie suit in the dryer. The heat from the dryer will damage the natural jute or delicate synthetic material and cause it to degrade much faster than normal. Allow the suit to air dry instead.

How To Season A Ghillie Suit

The jute netting on this sniper suit is detachable,
and the BDU suit is machine washable.

Exceptions To The Rule

These ghillie suit washing instructions apply to suits made of natural materials, such as jute and burlap, or delicate synthetic materials. If you have a suit with detachable mesh netting, on the other hand, the suit itself (often called a BDU suit) may be machine washable.

The sniper ghillie suit from KillZone Hunting includes a BDU suit with detachable netting. The BDU suit is machine washable with the jute netting removed. Please read the clothing tag or check with the manufacturer to see if your BDU suit is machine washable.

Blend in like this with a customized ghillie suit!

Some ghillie suits, such as the ghillie suits from KillZone Hunting, come with extra jute threads or synthetic leaves. This allows you to easily customize the ghillie suit as needed. You can add more jute thread or leaves for thicker coverage or a slightly different camo pattern.

For even better camouflage, collect twigs, leaves, and brush from around the area and attach them to your ghillie suit. There’s no better way to blend in with your environment than to borrow nature’s camouflage!

Besides adding more jute strings and natural brush, you can also remove jute thread or synthetic leaves from your ghillie suit. This comes in handy for bowhunters who risk catching the bow or arrow on loose strings.

To modify a ghillie suit for bowhunting, remove the jute or leaves from along the inside arm of the bow hand. Also, remove the jute threads or leaves from part of the chest area, on the same side as your bow hand so you don’t get snagged on the suit while you’re trying to shoot.

Remember to customize your ghillie suit for different seasons as well. In the winter, use more dark brown colors (if no snow) or white and light gray (in snowy areas) or a combination of brown, white, and gray. In the spring and summer, you may need to use more greens to blend in with the foliage. When it comes to customizing your ghillie suit, it all depends on where you live and where you hunt or play!