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With more than 100 million rifles in the country, there is a huge segment of the population that actively takes their guns into the woods. Whether it’s for preparation, hunting, or tactical purposes, odds are if you are using a long gun in the field, you may want to camo that bad boy up. This is where scrim can be your friend.

Scrim is nothing but a basic fabric that has a light, almost gauzy weave to it. It’s used in bookbinding (that woven fabric in the back of hardcover books), theatre and photography (to reflect light), and in simple industrial applications like making burlap sacks.

The net-like weave of scrim fabric make them light yet strong and in many cases see-through. As far back as the 1800s, Scottish gamekeepers in an effort to catch poachers used scrim fabrics, salvaged from potato sacks, to make effective camouflage. These poacher-catchers were referred to as Ghille, a Gaelic term for ‘lads’, and their rifles and personal camouflage soon became known as Ghillie suits.

Read the rest in my article at Firearms Talk