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| Paintball Ghillie Suits |  The idea of a paintball sniper is a misnomer to say
the least. This is mainly because it is dubious
weather so-called sniper paintball gun offer any more
distance or accuracy than to ordinary paintball
markers. It is thought that by adding the longer
barrel, that you can increase the accuracy offered by
an ordinary paintball gun. However, to be legal for
play, a paintball can travel at a muzzle velocity of
no more than 300 feet per second. How then, can a
sniper paintball gun claim to offer longer distance
shots? This remains to be seen.
However, besides the complicated weapon system, the
skills applicable in real sniping are very useful in
paintball play. Especially camouflage. A properly
camouflaged player can easily slip past adversaries
unnoticed to mount a surprise attack from the rear.
This would be useful indeed. And while the sniper
paintball gun may be, in many ways, the same as a
regular paintball gun, there is one piece of sniper
gear that can be utilized by a paintball sniper as
effectively as a real sniper does: the Ghillie suit.
A paintball ghillie suit, as you may know, is a pair of BDUs or
other suit of clothes, to the front of which a large
number of canvas strips or lengths of jute twine are
attached, and a sturdy mesh net attached to the back.
As a sniper works his way, slowly, towards his
objective, he incorporates bits of vegetation into his
ghillie suit, until his camouflage is complete. When
properly employed, the ghillie suit makes the sniper
almost invisible to the untrained eye. The ghillie
suit is useful in the same way to a paintball player.
Opposing players, if you go unnoticed, will walk right
past you, and leave themselves open to a rear attack.
The possibilities offered to the paintball player
equipped with a ghillie suit are many and varied. |
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