PC/HC Hunting?

How many dress in period correct clothing when ML hunting? Your thoughts on that?

N.Y. Yankee said:

How many dress in period correct clothing when ML hunting? Your thoughts on that?

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YES

OK so it depends. I will dress complete, but that's only in certain places and times when I've a very good chance not to encounter or be seen by a modern hunter, and get shot. EVEN THEN I don't wear a white shirt or white knee breeches, and my hunting horn is browned while my screw-tip horn is white. Too many yahoos here that will take a shot in the direction of something "whitish" moving in the woods. I have friends who even face-paint their pale faces for this reason. No lies.

I will add hunter orange and otherwise dress HC in places where this isn't applied, to hopefully not get shot "at" let alone hit, AND it's fun to watch the faces of the dudes in Gortex with the modern stuff when I pass them draggin' a deer (WHICH they unknowingly "pushed" toward me by being noisy as they moved..., gotta LOVE wool )

I will forego the HC clothing if I'm going straight to the woods after work with only a few hours of light left. I just throw on the modern orange game vest and orange hat...

The deer never complain, and fall over just as easily when hit. Same for squirrels . ☺

LD

Pretty much same answer as Loyalist Dave.
Mostly depends on how much time I have to both get ready to go and how much time I have to hunt. Also, as he mentioned, where I am leaving from.
It does seem to take me a little longer to get ready when going on period clothing. Not sure why.

I had a nice PC outfit I used to wear. Either they shrunk, or I grew.

No.

Always! Note that my period of interest is late 20th to early 21st century.

N.Y. Yankee said:

How many dress in period correct clothing when ML hunting? Your thoughts on that?

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A period correct hunting trip…now that would be amazing.

Yes but there are limitations, I still have to wear hunter orange during deer season. I have a wool toque in hunter orange right style wrong color. There is no way around an orange vest so that would be the only thing, not HC.

I have two blaze orange wool weskits to hunt the muzzleloader season, one lightweight and one heavy. I also have a blaze toque. For hunting, I usually replace my knee breeches and stockings for long drop-front pants, and wear moccasins instead of buckle shoes.

A number of years ago, I exited the woods onto a dirt road (I was lost) and was come upon by two "road hunters" in a pickup. I was in green wool weskit and knee breeches with hi-lows on my feet. My hat was a black felt bi-corn with a buck tail in the back. They slowed as they want past, and I heard the driver say, "I think I just saw an elf!" (I am 6'3" in my bare feet. Some elf!) I don't wear the buck tail hat anymore when hunting whitetails.

ADK Bigfoot

Sometimes, as Dave said it depends on how much time I have to spend in the woods, I like the looks you get if you stop for a coffee, had a youngster ask me at a local mini mart if I was Daniel Boone. For me it adds to the hunt.

My period of interest as far as equipment (guns) is concerned is the colonial & early American era. But when hunting I dress in the period of the 1990s & 2000s.

longcruise said:

Always! Note that my period of interest is late 20th to early 21st century.

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Well played, sir. Well played.

longcruise said:

Always! Note that my period of interest is late 20th to early 21st century.

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That's mine, too. I love my thinsolate.

I'm too self conscious to dress like Boone or a mountain man. I don't even like costume parties.

hanshi said:

My period of interest as far as equipment (guns) is concerned is the colonial & early American era. But when hunting I dress in the period of the 1990s & 2000s.

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HMMMMMM, maybe should update that outfit a bit. Get a little deeper into the current century.

All said is the truth about my hunting outfit, but don't throw me in with those non-believers! I hunt out of a traditional style bag that holds everything I need to hunt, shoot whatever number of shots that fit the circumstances as well as to maintain and clean the piece without returning to civilization or the car. Since I'm likely to be packed in, there's nothing extra dragged in and left in camp. I went two weeks like this once without a hitch and figure to do five to nine days this Year.

I include two non traditional items. A bullet board that will hold three balls and a oilcloth like gun case that weighs near nothing to keep the rifle dry if things get really bad in the weather department.

I like doing it the old way but just never got into the costume thing.

About half and half. And I have always moved slow and quiet. Often pass some of the younger, more modern fellas, and am rarely spotted by them. Always whispering, even right after they take a shot.
Note: You can talk quieter and less noticeably by speaking at a very low volume - whispers always carry a lot further.

After I retired, in 1973, we returned to Idaho. No muzzle loading season and few hunters on the Little Weiser river off of highway 95. I wore buckskins during the regular season and frequently frightened young hunters by approaching silently in Moccasins. Fun time for sure. BtW always got deer there. I often approached to within twenty feet of hunters and coughed. Frozen expressions replaced watchful eyes. I [we] were never shot at and always had to spend a few minutes explaining the guns and clothing/accoutrements. I would not venture to repeat that hunting method today. I still like this ninety year old carcass and my wife. Are there still any places where that is possible? Polecat

Dale Lilly said:

Are there still any places where that is possible? Polecat

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If there are, people might be reluctant to mention them.

Oh, I know a place like that. Need to walk 150 or 200 yards then get comfortable and wait.

Yes where I hunt there is no one except me.