How far do you carry a traditional hunt?

[FishDFly]

roundball,

People can often become pecuilar about their hobbies and beliefs, especially the deeper they get into things. As you said, some of it is the
enthusiasm and some of it is just I am better than you.

I fly fish and some who fly fish are about as snobby as you can find. I have never known a fish to know the cost of a rod that it was caught on.

RDE

 

[MikeC]

Gun, bag and accoutraments are traditional.

Clothing no. I don't buy into the camo craze even when bowhunting, earthtones work just fine.

While gun hunting I wear my nearly 20 year old Sorel boots, an old worn-in Refrigiwear cotton duck bib and an old red checkered Woolrich coat. We are required to wear orange forgot the square inch requirement or an orange hat. I wear the hat. Gloves are ragg-wool.

 

[rabjr]

Swampy sayed """Don't use a modern climbing stand...haven't figured out how to use one yet. """

:haha: It true!

 

[david50]

i always hunt as traditional as possible,i only hunt with flintlocks, i dont use a treestand or sents or calls when deer hunting.nothing wrong with useing these items it's just not for me.i try to dress as PC as possible(in my mind).i think dressing the part is half the fun.

 

[Juggernaut]

Nice Fox Squirrel there. You use a .32 cal Flintlock?

Juggernaut

 

[wvbuckbuster]

I always carry leather shooting bag and horn. If cold enough a wool frock. Orange is required(400sq.in.) during deer seasons. :grin:

 

[white_tail]

After reading all of these comments on using modern tree stands or not, using modern clothes or not etc”¦ Do you ride a mule / horse to the hunting grounds or a modern car / truck? Where is that fine line drawn? :hmm:

 

[rabjr]

Do you use a modern alarm clock to get up on time in the morning? Really, unless you move to the wilds and live the part 24/7, we all are going to have some level of modern intrusion no matter how much you try not to have. :v

 

[david50]

Nice Fox Squirrel there. You use a .32 cal Flintlock?

Juggernaut

yes it's a .32,got a .40 i sometimes use for squirrels but it's a bit much

 

[Desert Rat]

Where is that fine line drawn? :hmm:

I think the fine line is drawn where ever the individual hunting is most comfortable with it.

While deer hunting this year, a 4 day trip, we dressed and for the most part camped as period as we were willing. Our dress was right on (as far as we can tell and can document). We slept in a canvas A-frame in blankets on modern pads (one not period item, but well worth it in my opinion. We cooked over the fire but had a campstove for that early morning cup of joe (also bordering on a necessity). We hunted from the ground and resorted to 'driving' the truck when we just didn't find anything wihin our walking range of camp.

For about 45 minutes of the 4 days when I was playing cat and mouse with a small herd everything felt right even though I couldn't get into position for a clean shot.

I'm not sure I'll go to those lengths again, it seemed a little sacreligous to be riding around in a truck trying to spot animals in period dress, but for those 45 minutes it sure seemed like all was right in the world.

 

[tg]

" Do you ride a mule / horse to the hunting grounds or a modern car / truck? Where is that fine line drawn?"

As stated above it is drawn by the individual, that is basical what the original question asked.
Often the use of a car or paved highways is used to point out that we can never be completely traditional most of those who try for one level or another of traditional hunting are probably aware of this, one main issue of the level of traditional experience is recognizing what is or isn't and accept it and not try to put the traditional tag on that which is not just for some self serving purpose,things like guns using loads and modern bullits that compare to center fires comes to mind, the choice of arms and ammo is the heart of the traditional hunting experience the rest is like decoration on the tree, some like a very sparse tree while others put on so much you cannot see the limbs.

 

[Bountyhunter]

I'm with you, Lenn, I hunt my own property but we still have to be wary of the fish and game "rules" and the orange and all that. My garb is summer wear as that is the only time I get to go rondy. So to appease the socialists, when it comes hunting season, I just put on my bright orange Ditch Witch coveralls and grab my Hawken and start wading the brush. I have a place where I have a high bank overlooking a wide sheltered bottom. The edge of the bank is grown up solid with large cedars, and I have a foxhole dug in under one of them where I can just go crawl in under the spreading branches, and be out of the cold wind and out of sight and mostly out of smell, and wait for what passes through the bottom. If I can see it, it is in range of my Hawken.

 

[PitchyPine]

I'm with you, Lenn, I hunt my own property but we still have to be wary of the fish and game "rules" and the orange and all that. My garb is summer wear as that is the only time I get to go rondy. So to appease the socialists, when it comes hunting season, I just put on my bright orange Ditch Witch coveralls and grab my Hawken and start wading the brush. I have a place where I have a high bank overlooking a wide sheltered bottom. The edge of the bank is grown up solid with large cedars, and I have a foxhole dug in under one of them where I can just go crawl in under the spreading branches, and be out of the cold wind and out of sight and mostly out of smell, and wait for what passes through the bottom. If I can see it, it is in range of my Hawken.

I only hunt my own land also but i still wear the orange, have to by law and i feel safer too.
Wonder how many old timers got shot by accident wearing a fur hat and period cloths, seems like there would of been a few though hunters then probably had a lot more common sense.
My main point of posting the picture was my matchlock, can`t get much more primitive than that as far as the weapon anyway.

 

[FishDFly]

When I see pictures of people in there traditional clothing and see someone in a fire engine red wool coat, I am somewhat jealous.

I always wanted one, they look so warm and comforatble.

Geez, we hunt here in November in shorts at times.

RDE

 

[roundball]

"...we hunt here in November in shorts at times..."

Where's "here" ?

 

[jethro224]

"...we hunt here in November in shorts at times..."

Where's "here" ?

There was one day this season when I had stripped down to t-shirt and jeans by 8:00am because I was hot. Back to a coat and a rain poncho over it by 9:30 due to a cold front and a thunderstorm. Fog and drizzle turning to freezing rain the rest of the day so you would crackle every time you moved 'cause you were covered in ice...

Several years ago I decided that it made sense to save cents by not buying scents and I haven't used any since. :blah:

Haven't used a treestand in a few years either...

Other than my rifle and the stuff to make it shoot, my gear is mostly modern. I have been working on building a traditional outfit. Made a few things, bought a few things. Still need pants and footwear. And some warm stuff.
The stuff I have so far is only good for mild weather. I don't like to be cold and wet. Hard to imagine giving up the modern boots and thermal longjohns when it gets much below 50 anyway... And we have to wear the orange vest and hat during deer season.
Might try a PC squirrel hunt next early fall with the new .36 flinter I'm getting built. :hmm:

 

[white_tail]

I was in the past very active in the Indiana Bow Hunters Association, as in all of the Muzzle Loading groups there are groups that claim to be “traditional hunters”. But, they hunt from tree stands with scents, with all of the modern equipment, and they demand to have their own special seasons (deer) and will fight tooth and nail to prevent any other type of “traditional hunters” in THEIR season. I would love to have a primitive hunting season for deer where you can shoot a stick bow or a flintlock / percussion if they are like the bows / guns before a certain date / period. But, this would never happen in Indiana.

 

[FishDFly]

East Texas.

In early November it might be 70 when I leave the house to go to the blind in the morning and it sometimes is over 80 in the afternoon when it's time to leave. It can and does get cold here, but we do see warm weather in December.

Most here hunt in box blinds, so afternoon clothing is often a dark t-shirt and shorts.

Kind of hard to think tradional when you are sitting in a 4'X6' box blind in a swivel chair, carpet on the floor and bottom of the walls and a heater on the floor if it's needed.

I live about 15 miles west of fw, though we have never met.

RDE

 

[FishDFly]

whitetail,

My wife is from Whiting and she took me to a nice sporting goods store in the area. I really enjoyed my time there until it was time to leave. She had parked her sister's car right in front of the front door of the store. Her sister had a Humane Society license plate on the front of the car. Embarassed!!!

RDE

 

[white_tail]

Richard,

Several years ago my family and I were heading to Friendship (home of the NMLRA)we past a BMW with the license plate "Ban Furs". My son and daughter at that time enjoyed collecting different types of fur pieces, and this day they purchased several pieces of fur. Well on the way home guess who passed us? Yes the same BMW oh course I had to pass her and the kids had to share their furs with her. Oh course I had to explain what a middle finger meant (a good life lesson).