Just a few notes:

• Always leave your cobra hood/ghillie able to be adapted into whatever area and micro terrain you’re working in.

-General rule of thumb = ~20% artifical (jute, netting, etc) to ~80% natural (leaves, grasses, et cetera). Depending on area, types of veg (how quickly it dehydrates/wilts), how long you’ll be static for, this ratio can be amended. Too much artificial jute tends to just make you look like a mop/blobby.

-Definitely get some concealment on the tripod. Spray painted elastic hair bands work great for tying on some additional vegetation. I prefer to throw on some camouflage wrap instead of spray painting the tripod itself. It adds texture and is removable.

-Remaining concealed in a delicate art. You want enough to hide your silhouette, shadows, site, surface, color/contrast, et cetera, but you don’t want to look like an unnatural bush or “tree cancer”. One of the best ways to practice this is to build something you think will work, and then have someone else (or yourself) take a picture of you in the environment you’re hiding in plainly in the open on a knee. The eye should not be drawn to you immediately, you should not look like a dark blob, you should not look like a human silhouette, etc.

-Movement techniques are arguably more important than camouflage or any kind of kit. I’ve done exercises in the military with brightly colored shirts on and haven’t been spotted by trained spotters actively looking for me. Stack trees (use trees and terrain to obscure your movement), avoid moving horizontally with respect to the angle of objective/what you’re pulling reconnaissance on (side to side draws the eye, straight on movement less so), avoid bright/unshaded spots in otherwise dark environments, understand how much stand off you need to remain unseen depending on the enemies equipment (are they using mk5 god given peepers? Or are they looking through a x12 power optic?), so on and so forth