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How to put a Barrel Plug on a Lanyard:

This is a fairly simple project that takes no more than 5 minutes to complete, yet it is very useful if you are playing paintball at a field where barrel plugs are required at all times except when you are playing a game. Sometimes it's hard to find a pocket to put your barrel plug in and remove it easily and plug your gun quickly when you are shot. Materials Needed: Key Ring Lanyard Barrel Plug 1/8 inch drill bit Here's the barrel plug. You want to make a hole in it near the middle of the end part. Use a really small drill bit or a heated-up nail. This is a close-up of the hole. I just threaded a key ring onto it and then threaded the lanyard onto the key ring. You could also make your own lanyard by taking some parachute cord and tying it so that you have a big loop and a small loop to put the key ring onto. Here's how the completed barrel plug looks.

How To Camouflage your Gun:

There has been some discussion as to how to camouflage a gun. The short answer is that you do it the same way you cover yourself. Start with the color, then break up the outline. Finnish of with blending it in with the terrain you’ll be playing in. In preparation for a game, I recently camouflaged my gun, so I took pictures to post and help anyone who might need ideas, so here they are. Step One: Clean the gun well using a solvent that is safe for your gun. Rubbing alcohol works well to dissolve and remove paint residue from aluminum. Step Two: Cover the gun with camouflage tape that you can buy from sporting goods stores. This will reduce the shine and blend it in with the background. Black markers are a good start, but black tends to look like an un-natural blob. We want to look natural and blend in. If you’re going to use tape, it is easy to repair, and remove. You can change it at will and it’s not permanent. It also protects your investment from scratches and damage. Make sure all the moving parts are free to move and are not restricted. Step Three: Break up the outline of the barrel and major parts. There are no perfectly straight lines in nature, so a strip of burlap or other material will help break up the outline. Step Four: This one’s optional. Use the burlap covering or cord to tie bits of foliage to the gun to blend it in to the background. That way it will blend into the background. Keep the sight line free so you can still aim properly. Again, if your gun has external moving parts, keep them free. The foliage you use will have to be replaced as the day goes on because it will wilt. Change it as the vegetation you’re crawling through or your gun will not blend in ad effectively. The basics off camouflage and concealment can be applied to anything. The only limiting factor is your imagination. I hope this helps as a guide for anyone who needs inspiration. Play safe folks.

How to Build a Ghillie Suit:

Imagine This... You and you're friends creep silently through the forest without a sound, being sure to stay out of the open using cover. Together, you're five-man-strong team will make an attempt to take the enemy flag. It hangs, slightly peppered with blue and orange spray froom a previous (although failed) attmept of your team team to take the flag. Suddenly from behind you, you hear a marker go off, you turn around, and a burst of three rounds shatters around you, smacking your friends' mask, shattering against another's hopper. Everyone immedialty drops and crawls away to cover, peaking out at uneven intervals to find the lone sharpshooter that destroyed your attempts at the flag. From behind, a ball shatters against your friends' back, leaving a large orange mark, and a probable welt that'll be confirmed after the game. You unload on a bush that moved, only to hear the pop of the marker and watch your last friend walk off the field. Now you're alone, without anyone for support against a lone hunter... Explanation of the Attack The above scenario is a simple plan of attack where the sharpshooter stalked his target for a period of the game, fallowing them all the way up until he felt he had a clear shot or had to stop them from taking the flag. The lesson of this story is to always be aware of your surroundings, don't dismiss odd sounds as natural (a lot of people do that), and return fire in the suspected direction of attack to at least get thier heads down. This type of thing happens a lot to unaware newbies who don't know what that rattling bush means and simply dismiss it. But it also happens to over-confident veterens of the sport who "know" that nobody is good enough to sneak up on them any longer. The question of, "How do I become the lone wolf players who ambushs the other players and becomes MVP for my team?" will ineviteble be asked by many. Expieriance in the use of cover and camouflage, patience to know when to wait and when to open fire, determination to stick with your stalk, a cool head when you come under return fire, and lastly, good camouflage. I can help you there... Ghillie Suit Ghille suits originated from Scotland, thought to have come around in the 1800s. They were made for the game wardens and hunters to break up the human outline when they tracked deer or waited for poacherrs to happen by. They were based on a sturdy garment, netting was sewn on, and on this netting was attached hundreds of strips of burlap and other cloth dyed to match the environment around them. Ghillie suits were later used in the First World War, where they saw thier first combat action, and were used by the Scottish to great effect when they would report on enemy positions and movements. One officer said of the Scots, "If they report something, it is as they reported it." This detailed how thorough and accuralty the Scots were in the war. Later on, the Germans used camouflage in the Second World War. These were often very elaborate devices indeed, often making a dead horse from a wire frame or taking a steel pipe and then adding tree bark, or the wire hoods designed so the user could move his head without jerking the hood. They even came up with an unbrella-like device that opened and closed, but was covered in camouflage cloth. Most of these tools, however, were reguarded as training tools, best left back at the sniper school. Ghillie suits are still used today by most snipers in the military, and often in the law-enforcment arena. While new sensors like infrared are being used, they can easily be combated by the infrared-treated camouflage netting, or the newer (and expensive) infrared BDU's. I'd also like to take this time to dispell of a common "theory" that has been put out by some manufacturers. From all information released to me, coming from snipers in the military, they make their own ghillie suits, they do NOT buy them from commercial dealers. So, when you see someone say their ghillies are used by snipers, take it with a grain of salt, or ignore it altogether.

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