It’s a common question for many to wonder if you should try to make your own ghillie suit. In some survival situations, you may find you don’t have the option of buying a suit from the store so knowing how to make your own is certainly a good skill to have. Making your own homemade ghillie suit is not as easy as it may sound however, but if done correctly it will give you an advantage.

If you are making a ghillie suit from scratch, you will need materials from the environment to put together to create the camouflage and you will also need something to attach them to such as your own clothing or jacket, backpack and other materials. With nothing to hold the sticks and leaves on together, you will not be able to take cover below a ghillie suit. If you have any type of netting material on you, this can also be used to attach camouflage to and wrap around you as a suit.

If you are not in an emergency or survival situation, you will have more opportunity to get the materials that you need as well as more time and ideal conditions for creating the homemade ghillie suit. You can also buy pre-made suit kits that make it even easier.

To determine if you should make your own ghillie suit, here are some questions to ask yourself:

What will you be using the suit for?
What type of materials do you have available to work with?
How long will you need to keep the suit on?
What experience do I have with making ghillie suits or related camo materials?
Why do you want to make your own suit (for fun, a challenge, because you have no access to buying one)?

Once you have the answers to these questions, you will know if you should try to make your own homemade ghillie suit. There are many available ghillie suit kits now that allow you to easily make your own suit for use before hunting, playing paintball or other chosen activities.

If you are in a survival situation or war, you will not have this luxury and you will have to use your past training and knowledge to create the suit on your own as best you can. You can use sticks and twigs and you can use grass and leaves to make string-like material. Most types of mud can be used as glue to hold the leaves and twigs together and to hold the camo onto your suit or clothing.