Scrimming: No, not the gaming sort...

 Scrimming in this context refers to the art of concealing your self using fabric pieces and, in the case of field work, vegetation to enhance your concealment. I don't currently have a proper stock for my Tempus so my old Stryfe Raider stock is going to have to do until I can arrange an alternative. The problem is that it's bright bloody red! That's fine if you're running around a sub-130FPS field but Invicta Battlegrounds is a forest with a side-helping of forest. Blending in and trying not to get tagged is the name of the game.

To the red/green colour blind, that might not seem like too much of an issue but to me it's both shiny and bright red.

I cut up and old scrim scarf into chunks of fabric to be used to cover the back end of the stock. Nature has no straight lines and shiny things catch the human eye to movement as light reflects off them. The softer lines of the dull fabric make concealment much easier.

Cut up some lengths of shock cord to act as anchor points for the scrim net.

Tie them into position to create some anchor points.

I'm not entirely sure it worked. The end effect is there but I think a different approach might be useful. Scrimming is always an ongoing process so I guess I can fettle and work to improve it. We'll see if it works at the weekend on the field.