Any hunters/shooters on the board?

**David Thornton** · 2nd October 05, 05:33 PM

Just curious. Scotland has a tremendous history of producing nice side by side shotguns. David M Brown being the best current example. And there is a great tradition of shooting and stalking.
I shoot a 1910 Charles Ingram at SXS events. I plan to go kilted at the next shoot. I would love to take my setters hunting while kilted, but briars and blood can't be good on a kilt.
David

**Southern Breeze** · 2nd October 05, 06:33 PM

I shoot when I have time on the thousand yard range with a Barrett 50.,for fun and not competitively.I'm not much of a hunter so I don't get into that part of shooting.The Ingram is a very nice gun.

**Nick** · 2nd October 05, 06:44 PM

I've got a side-by-side and a pump, both 20 ga. I've also got a .50 cal Kentucky rifle that I built from a kilt. I'm currently working on building a matchlock completely from scratch in my forge. I pretty much only target shoot, though I have been hunting.

toadinakilt · 2nd October 05, 07:10 PM

PENNSYLVANIA rifle, not Kentucky. Kentucky is an erronious title.

**Jerry** · 2nd October 05, 08:33 PM

I won't list all of my guns here, but I do shoot and hunt as well. Most of my hunting is for whitetail deer, with either muzzle loaders or shiotgun slug gun. I guess my favorite is my Knight disc extreme muzzle loader. Our archery season (for deer) just started in Va, and since the game commision is allowing Crossbows for the first time this year I'm giving that a try.

**Brasilikilt** · 2nd October 05, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by toadinakilt

PENNSYLVANIA rifle, not Kentucky. Kentucky is an erronious title.

Actually both titles are correct
To put it simply the Pennsylvania indicates where they were designed and built, Kentucky for where the rifles were used and earned their legendary reputation.

With that being said, the very first firearm I purchased was a .45 Flintlock "Penntucky" rifle assembled from what appears to be parts salvaged from other rifles, including a lock from an English Brown Bess musket marked 1835.
I have since purchased a 12 ga Remington 870 Wingmaster currently in a police style "riot gun" configuration (look at my avatar), an 8mm Mauser and a Springfield Armory "GI" M-1911 .45 pistol

I haven't been hunting in a kilt, but the thought has crossed my mind many times over, even though a kilt seems to be a thousand snag hazards waiting to happen! There seems to be something very romantic about wandering the woodlands while kilted, hunting for your own supper.
I could easily see myself going to the local trap & skeet shooting club while kilted.......

**yoippari** · 2nd October 05, 11:39 PM

I have hunted with my dad. I have used my grandpa's .270 for deer and my savage 20ga for duck, quail and grouse. I haven't been hunting in a few years though. Really big game hunting got fairly boring. We weren't very "hardcore" about it and at least on the trips I went on, we were not overly succesful. Bird on the other hand is very fun. Downing a green wing teal flying upriver is quite satisfying. Quail you really have to get several of to make a meal while a couple of mallards can be plently.

Possibly even more satisfying is using steel shot in a 3 in. magnum shell with a either modified or improved modified choke. The resulting patter is tight enough that I am able to pick off skeet the rest of my family gives up on.

**Southern Breeze** · 3rd October 05, 04:42 PM

I'm planning on going to the range tomorrow kilted. I normaly shoot prone and doing so while wearing a kilt might be quite a show.Knowing the people I shoot with,THE QUESTION will definatly be asked.At least I'll be well armed!

**Mike n NC** · 3rd October 05, 07:43 PM

Musta missed this thread the first time by. I shoot blackpowder and modern. Wife and I do Civil War skirmishing with the N-SSA (North-South Skirmish Association), shooting for fun and score using period weapons and reproductions, also we are both life members of the NRA. I am a member of SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) and have a ball playing cowboy, just a big kid at heart I guess. :smile:

Nether of us get to spend as much time at the range as we would really like but we do shoot as much as we can. In fact this coming weekend is the National Skirmish for the N-SSA and we, along with a couple thousand others, will be there...pouring powder, making smoke and getting filthy, great fun.

Mike

**James** · 3rd October 05, 07:55 PM

In my younger days I used to shoot at Bisley-competition up to 1200 yards with a .762 98 Mauser conversion, and earlier than that with the military-and whilst rare it was not unusual to see a kilt on the ranges.

Not a hunter-but a kilt works fine backpacking -off path in Norwegian woods-so should not be a problem.

Too hunting tartan-excellent camouflage.

So why not?

James