PC/HC Hunting?

appalichian hunter said:

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.

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My wife was identified, at an Oklahoma rendezvous, as Pocahontas by a six or seven year old girl... she loved it. Polecat

Polecat, my hunting area is about 15 miles square. i could hunt necked and no one would see me. thats why i live here. i will bump into another hunter every couple years, or see one rather. they never see me. unfortunately time is making alot of my area inaccessible to my wobbly legs.
to stay on thread i hunt in a buckskin shirt and jacket but have to have wool pants and thinsulate footwear. usually hunt in snow.

Pretty much as Loyalist Dave said though since it has gotten so busy, crowded and dangerous in the woods that I used to frequent my hunting has significantly subsided.

Probably 90% of my hunting is small game anymore and 75% of that is done in 18th century clothing and a long rifle. Luckily I live in a area I can roam out back or be in hundreds or thousands of acres in 15 minutes. Doesn't hurt to have a blaze orang vest in the truck just in case a person runs into a warden leaving the woods. I have a blaze orange hatband on my roundhat for the small game season but that's about it. And I hate crossing long forgotten barb wire fences in a breechclout. lol

I think it would be great to totally dress out for hunting, than reality hits and I say NO! To many times I've heard " I took a shot" and I ask what was it? Don' Know they said the bushes moved.

deerstalkert said:

Polecat, my hunting area is about 15 miles square. i could hunt necked and no one would see me. thats why i live here. i will bump into another hunter every couple years, or see one rather. they never see me. unfortunately time is making alot of my area inaccessible to my wobbly legs.
to stay on thread i hunt in a buckskin shirt and jacket but have to have wool pants and thinsulate footwear. usually hunt in snow.

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Ahem.........I think that word is spelled "NEKKID".......

yer rite!
nekked! Au Naturale'

Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t.

That nekkid thing is o.k. but watch the green briars they have a way of snagging on where they should not.

Never I hunt the Catskills on my own property season is late December and now holiday hunt to January 2nd. Temperature and weather are not nice most years. I’ve hunted w my 1861 colt musket my friends Hawkins and now I’ve switches to in-line. Never been about PC/HC for me. For N-SAA skirmishes yes
Ill wear a modern sown period uniform except foot wear. I wear low top gray laced boots that are comfortable. My feet aren’t the best anymore.

Not my thing. Use old-timey guns, horn, bag mostly. Deer season requires hunter orange by regulation. Ticks, chiggers, stinging nettle, blackberry and multiflora rose dictate my dress code. Bib overalls are kinda/sorta/ probably not HC, but they're popular here for good reason.

Slick bellies (snakes) don't care what you look like. We have them.

I don't, but I also have not embraced the more modern high-tech articles of clothing. I don't wear camo when deer hunting with the exception of an old pair of Trebark pants. I still wear Dufold underwear, and wool. I also like either spruce green or solid gray wool trousers, and a plaid wool shirt in earth-tone colors. I really like the wool pullovers offered by Fred Asbell and have two. The three States that I hunt require Blaze Orange, so I wear a hat to comply.

I seldom see other traditional type muzzleloaders in the woods during the special muzzleloader seasons, which makes me sad. They just look like modern hunters with a modern rifle with an optical sight that just happens to load from the front.

if one hunts in period clothing, does he or she have to wear INTERNATIONAL ORANGE or THE NEW GREEN, 200 square inches of color? just wondering?

toot said:

if one hunts in period clothing, does he or she have to wear INTERNATIONAL ORANGE or THE NEW GREEN, 200 square inches of color? just wondering?

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If that's the law. It's the law.
The state doesn't care about one's having a "period correct experience."
It's 400 square inches of blaze orange here. Exceptions made for turkey hunting, duck hunting from a stationary blind/position,,, and,,,, for landowners hunting on their own property.

I would wear it no matter where I was. Too many huckleberries in those woods.

Well, maybe a Tolkien Lord of the Rings-type elf...

I have hunted PC and enjoy the reactions of people at stores gas stations.
One year I was hunting in my late 1700s PC outfit a bit away from roads etc. I sat down at a base of an large old poplar tree looking down a large wide draw. I heard some foot falls behind and to my right. I canted my rifle to ensure my powder in the pan was in place.
Out stepped a wildlife officer off to my right and about 6' forward. I observed for a few seconds an said you know there is no going back. He looked around surprised to see where I was. I stood up and said that there were a few before him that came here and could not go back. I said that taking box does not work here either. He actually tried it and it would not work due to being a dead zone.
There came a face of concern over him. I told him that i would take him to the village a mile away where there were some others like him. He seemed not to know what to say and I broke out laughing and said " Gotcha Ya".
We laughed talked a bit and he went on his way.

There are some of you who need to be edikated on a definition. I'm originally from the DEEP South and feel I have a duty to set some of you straight.

NAKED: wearing no clothes [to be without clothes, absence of any body covering, no attention to bodily modesty]

NEKKED: wearing no clothes [without clothing, no modesty of the bare body] AND BEING UP TO SOMETHING.

I hope this helps.

hanshi said:

There are some of you who need to be edikated on a definition. I'm originally from the DEEP South and feel I have a duty to set some of you straight.

NAKED: wearing no clothes [to be without clothes, absence of any body covering, no attention to bodily modesty]

NEKKED: wearing no clothes [without clothing, no modesty of the bare body] AND BEING UP TO SOMETHING.

I hope this helps.

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Dat's right out of the Websters book knowin stuff.

N.Y. Yankee said:

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

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Dressing in period correct ( and colored) clothing here would violate Game and Fish laws and probably get you shot into doll rags