Hunting clothes

[Ron LaClair]

Wool and fur keeps ya dryer and warmer

 

[Ron LaClair]

Sometimes a bow can save yer powder

 

[James Stella]

Ok let's get realistic here. The area you are talking about is roughly neer the Poncha Pass ( elevation 9010ft). This pass was crossed by Don Juan Baustista de Anza in 1770 for sure but the area was being explored by the Spanish since the 1500's.

The highest peak in the regon, Blanca Peak, was summited for survey purposes on 8/14/1874. When the team reached the top they were shocked to find a stone structure believed to have been built and used by Ute Indians and Spanish Explorers.

I'm pretty sure that area was trapped by MM. I do not think those Spanish explorers were wearing Danner boots.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Correct! :thumbsup:

Pikes Peak is named for Zebulon Montgomery Pike, an early explorer of the Southwest. Lieutenant Pike (later General Pike), first sighted what he termed "The Great Peak" in mid-November of 1806. A few days later, he attempted to climb the mountain with a small band of men, however, heavy snows around the 10,000-foot level turned his party back. He estimated the mountain's height at over 18,000 ft and is said to have claimed that it might never be climbed. In 1820, Edwin James, a botanist who climbed many peaks in Colorado, made it to the top. By the mid-1800's, a trail was well established to the top, and the first woman, Julia Holmes, climbed the peak in 1858.

 

[FrontierMuzzleloading]

No stone shelters or building in the parts I was. This was deep in the mountains where only iron ore miners have been.

Don'cha just love it when folks whom have never been to the area I actually hunt think they know the area better than you from their 300ft above sea level locations behind a computer screen? :haha: :haha:

Now when you shoot a deer or elk and carry it from the bottom of a mountain and top 12,500 feet in your traditional garb with your nice soft soled moccersins, you let me know and please for all of us, share the pictures.

Come take a walk in the Sangre de cristos folks.



Lookee all that nice stuff to hike through.


Again, when you hit the top of that 12,500 mountain and stalk down to the other side to take an elk or deer out, please remember this post on your trip"s" back up.


Hope you all enjoy the pics :hatsoff: Its a beautiful place to live and hunt and enjoy.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Somebody please get the kid a bottle of milk before my ears begin to bleed... :haha:

 

[FrontierMuzzleloading]

Somebody please get the kid a bottle of milk before my ears begin to bleed... :haha:

Clyde, lets see some of yours hunts. You have a whopping 4 pages of threads you personally started and the rest is just stirring up trouble and not really having anything smart to offer :haha:

All mouth and no show as usual on forums. :idunno:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Resorting to schoolyard antics.... :shake:

 

[FrontierMuzzleloading]

well, when you are ready to share your traditional hunts with you all decked out hunting the rockies, in traditional stuff to educate us on how its done, I surely will be looking forward to it.

What part of CO you from anyway?

 

[Tallswife]

Loving all the pictures of you folks in your traditional garb, thank you so much for sharing!

 

[tenngun]

I grew up in New Mexico and have hunted elk in that area, in traditional garb, and tramped around in high country in traditional garb, all the four corners states Wyoming and a little in to Idaho. Even did a might bit of fishing above the timber line in Colorado. Spent some awful cold days in the bookends.
Again you don't need to excuse what you wear. You don't dress traditional hunting because you don't want to, not because it's some how more practical.

 

[James Stella]

You win. No one on this page or planet for that matter is as good as you. Shoot no one who explored and opened the west was as good or tough as you. Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Lewis & Clark and many more explorers and MM sure could have gotten a lot more done with you around.

I think that whatever gear you use should be advertising that the west was only open because of them.

I hope you are not counting your horses as "modern" gear. Pretty sure they have been around at least 100 years.

Nice pictures of beaver ponds though. I guess if trappers were looking for beaver it would have given them a reason to try and get as high as you. But of course they would have failed.

 

[Katahdin]

Everyone get a Snickers,,,get two, one for yourself and one to share,,

 

[FrontierMuzzleloading]

we dont use horses,way to much trouble.

As for the original post and question:
"Are you using modern gear? I am just curious if anyone is willing to share their hunting clothing. Thank you."

My simple response to finish it off.

Yes, I prefer modern as its more suitable where I hunt, especially FOOT gear.

 

[Barry Stewart]

I have always been interested in making/keeping my gear as hc/pc as possible but until recently have not gone out and used it much. Regarding your comment about footwear being a problematic area I recently had a cool experience wearing my self made side seam moccasins. I added a thin piece of leather as an outer sole. I wore them on a camping/scouting trip to a high desert area of northeastern California known for quality mule deer hunting. I decided to go for it and wore my moccasins(as well as the rest of my western fur trade outfit) on a hike to shoot my recently acquired flintlock. It was tough going at first on the rocky sage brush and juniper terrain but with careful foot placement it turned out to not be too bad. I ended up moving much slower than I normally do. I basically looked down to avoid rocks them looked up again to pick my overal path and direction. This became kinda of a manageable technique.

To make a long story short, I was walking back to my camp down a draw with a small seasonal stream running down it when I looked up from placing my foot to see a doe staring at me about thirty yards away. I froze with my unloaded flintlock in my hands (not deer season and just on a scout, no doe season anyway). The wind was in my face and after a couple of minutes the doe milled around a few steps then bedded down. I think she was bedded when she intitially noticed me and I hadn't seen her. I think that being forced to walk so slow and carefully in my moccasins was part of the reason she didn't spook.

Any way I apologize for the long post but this was a real cool experience and for me it reinforces the enjoyment and reward of trying to do things in the old ways. Take care.

 

[FrontierMuzzleloading]

Finn, I agree completely with you on the moccersins. They are excellent to stalk through the woods because they MAKE you place your feet carefully. When I got my first muzzy elk I went all traditional but once I saw where I shot her and what I just went through, the modern stuff came out due to all those rocks. It was tough enough getting it out of the rocks and brush then fighting through it in the dark.

Theres always ups and down, but hauling an elk with soft soles mocs is pretty rough on the body. Not to mention slick.

I;d like to find the mocs but with a more modern sole to grip and comfort on terrain.

 

[Rick Boylan]

Correct me if I am wrong, but period clothing being used or not used aside, but photos, discussion or use of "those forbidden frontstuffers" is still a no no on these forums. Correct?

The problem is that this poster wants to discuss his hunts with a non traditional firearm. That was the first point made in this thread.

Or am I wrong?

 

[Rick Boylan]

I believe that the poster meant Modern gear = inline rifle. Thus, forbidden on this forum. Read the rules for posting please.

 

[FrontierMuzzleloading]

I read the first post and its abut PC clothing or if some prefer modern clothing.

 

[James Stella]

Wow that is a cool story. Thank You.