Ghillie suit question

[zazou34]

I play in an area with some dead grass, a couple tree's, a few vines(so light, and dark greens. Browns.) I am wondering if theses are good quality ghillie product.
http://www.swisslink.com/products/gh...set_m_l-7-164/
Thanks

[TokyoSeven]

While the option to buy a ghille suite is tempting, many people generally make their own since they can tailor them to their local environments.

Without any pictures of your local area and going just off the description you have provided the only thing I can say is....it should be ok?

[TheRussianFunk]

I think I have this exact ghillie, so here goes:

For the temperate climate (green trees, brown dirt, some low-altitude flora) it works like a charm. People will get very close to you and never know that you are there. Now get ready for the drawbacks:

This particular suit has an odd stitch pattern in that instead of knotting anything, they took a long set of strings, folded them in half, and then just sewed them in a long stitch to the light mesh base. While it keeps the weight down and the suit surprisingly light and ventilated, it also means that those threads will pull out with the slightest provocation. Take an afternoon (and an open area, lots of fumes) and rub a dab of shoe-goo into the stitches to keep all your thread in place. Wear a fume mask and some rubber gloves, it took me a few sittings and 2 tubes of "Amazing Goop."

The headpiece will slightly obscure your vision, but this is the price you pay for camouflage of this nature. Your peripheral vision will be cut down, and your eyes will sometimes involuntarily focus on the fine netting 2 inches in front of your face. The air will also get damn stale in that headpiece, with very little air circulation, it gets hot and muggy right quick.

The buttons on it are garbage. They are some sort of brittle plastic that will either break or disintegrate within your first few games. I haven't found a really great solution to this one yet, I'm currently just using MacGuyver fixes to it to keep the pant-legs buttoned up and shirt closed.

It will become full of leaves, sticks, and dirt in general, and if you stuff it back in its little carrying sack and forget about it - it will smell. It will also leave a hilarious trail of crumpled leaf bits behind you if you traverse a clean area with it on. Take it outside and shake the hell out of it. Don't comb it unless you've shoe-goo'd it first unless you want ghillie-pattern-baldness.

There are no pocket slits and accessing your chest can become difficult because of crappy plastic buttons, so keep this in mind if you have lots of gear. While you can still carry a chestful of mags and radios, don't plan on accessing them in any sort of rapid fashion unless you blow your cover to do so.

While it sounds like a lot of "bad" things, these are just things I wish I had known going into it. It does what it is supposed to do, though, and that's keep you nigh invisible (if you can sit still and not lose your nerve!). There was a time when my sniping buddy was talking to a teammate some 6 feet away. Casually, he says "Oh hey, by the way, don't step on Cleric," I waved, and the teammate damn near crapped a brick.

There was another time when I was taking shots at an enemy navigating difficult terrain, he was coming right towards me, stopping to try and figure out where the shots were coming from. I am a terrible shot and, over the course of a minute, had emptied my magazine, but couldn't move for fear that his eyes would register that I wasn't a bush. He got within 20 feet before he realized that bushes shouldn't have a pistol pointed at him, thankfully my sniping buddy saved my bacon at just the right time.