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ARMY RANGER RICK's CAMMIE KIT

Do you know what's wrong with today's Army camouflage net system? Besides needing a vehicle to haul the damn thing around and the color & pattern doesn't always match the surrounding terrain. Well if you ask any soldier who's ever set up one of these camouflage net systems he or she would tell you "They're a freakin pain in the @ss." And you would think by now the Army would have come up with a more compact, lighter and easier-to-transport camouflage net system, wouldn't you? Sure, but they haven't, not yet. And so until they do come up with a better one you just might want to try out my Army Ranger Rick Lightweight Individual Camouflage Kit (L.I.C.K.). And where you get one of these is from Brigade Quartermaster except they call it a IMPS-NET.

But what you need and don't get with this IMPS-NET is:
4 x Fiberglass tent poles - from any camping supply store
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2 x Net spreaders - Make yourself out of wood, circular or X type. 
5 x Wire tent stakes - You can use wooden or metal tent stakes.
2 x Short, thick bolts - Complete with nuts & washers

To make a few homemade spreaders just find some wood and cut out either two round circular spreaders or four flat narrow spreaders as shown above in the photos. Then take an electric drill and a drill bit about the same diameter/width as the bolts and drill a hole in the center of the spreaders. Then slip in the bolts and secure them in place with the nuts & washers.

IMPORTANT : The bolts must fit snuggly inside the "metal adapters" located at one end of the fiberglass tent poles. And if they don't inside the adapters, then take some tape, electric or duct tape and wrap it several times around the bolts until they do fit snuggly inside the fiberglass adapters.

 You know what I really like about this kit? You can quietly set it up and take it down without making hardly any noise.
Just lay the net out, secure the corners in place with some stakes or sticks, connect the poles & spreaders together, lift up the net and slide'em underneath. 
Then all ya gotta do is camouflage it with some foilage, grass, weeds, leaves, pine needle branches like this...   
And this is what it should look like when it's correctly camouflaged to blend in with the surrounding terrain. 
Make a great pocket hunting blind for hunting deer, ducks, woodchucks and other critters. Don't ya think? Cool huh?

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