Kilted hunting

[Jerry]

I just thought of a good reason not to hunt while kilted. It is reccomended (if not required by law to weara full safety harness when hunting from either a fixed or climbing tree stand. I can't imadine pulling the leg straps tight whi;e wearing a kilt. This pic is from the Grizzly tree stand website. I guess since I'm using their pic, I should give them a plug here. I have one of these harnesses and it is a lot more comfortable than my old one



Can you imagine wearing this contraption with a kilt?

[Owl of Oban]

Yep, I'd say that harness and a kilt is a non-starter.

Lots of different types of hunting though. I do a lot of walk-up pheasant and grouse hunting. Unless the brush is super thick, a kilt would be very comfortable I'd think.

[Riverkilt]

Yikes, glad I left Oregon if bear are invading Salem!!

Serious, I got out of the hunting business a long time ago, tired of killing other life forms (insects are still in danger around me though).

Don't know that my hiking experiences would help much since the tallest things grow down here is lower than your undergrowth up there.

Will venture that you'd do well to check out the various camos on the market including the digital camos.

Steve up at Freedom Kilts had a VERY COOL CADPAT kilt but think they're gone now. I scored one and love it. Also have both the desert and forest MARPATs from Jeff at Pittsburgh Kilts. A lot of technology has gone into developing the digital camos and think if you're trying to sneak up and kill a life form that would prefer to live you'd do well to don a digital camo kilt.

Of course if there are a lot of other hunters about and they are drinking to the point of testosterone poisoning I'd go with a bright orange kilt and hope for the best...maybe wear a helmet too...

Bears in Salem...? Wow!

Ron

[yoippari]

Well, around here it is law that you wear at least some orange. I think that archery season you can go full camo but all other seasons you must be visible to other hunters. And I don't plan on hunting from a tree stand. I do a lot of walking. Walking and standing around waiting for other people to flush deer out of a thicket (thats how I got my first deer). So if they make some of that digital camo in different shades of orenge I would be set.

Actually hunting tartans seem to blend in well enough with the local vegitation. Except for the black part, my black stewart blends well with certain bushes this time of year. The tartan isn't that much of a concern, it is mostly an issue of will I ruin a kilt by wearing it while walking through black berry bushes (chaps/leggings would be helpful here) or while crawling through bushes.

And the bear are not here, yet... Because of certain laws (no hunting with dogs) predator hunting has seen a large decline and bears have gotten into the edge of town in the portland area. I remember a story from a couple of years ago about a family in astoria that saw a mointain lion swipe either a small dog or a cat off their back porch.

edit: have you seen the OSU tartan? Orange, black, and a little white, should be bright enough for the law and it is probably broken up enough that deer wont look and run at the first sight of it.

[davedove]

So if they make some of that digital camo in different shades of orenge I would be set.

Jeff at Pittsburgh Kilts has some orange camouflage material. None in the MARPAT, just the standard camo pattern.

[Jerry]

Virginia requires blaze orange fot the general firearms season, and it must be solid color, no oeange camo. For the archery and muzzle loading seasons, full camo is okay. I don't use that type of stand either My climber would be difficult to fall out of. It's a;most like sitting in a cage. Ecen so I do wear a safety harness like the one shown in the pic. I also make it a practice to vlimb less than 15 feet. This high enough to get above the under brush and low enough that i could drop down if it became nescessary. I know this from experoence, having lost the bottom part of the stand while 10 ft up. It was in the early days of my climbing stand use. I had the two parts tied together, but it never occured to me that I should have tied the ends which rest against the tree together. As a result, even though I could pull the lower part up, I couldn't get it back against the tree. Lesson numer one in tree stand safety.

[David Thornton]

But in Scotland you wouldn't be sitting in a stand anyway. You would be stalking with your ghillie, if you were after roe deer or red stag. Or you could join a driven shoot, where breeks are the norm. I would think either could be done in a kilt & wellies. Or, you could take a dog and do some rough shooting, again I think a kilt would be fine.
I would love to spend 10 days or so enjoying the sport available in Scotland.
David

[Riverkilt]

Man...I don't know...seems like an orange kilt etc would just give the intoxicated gunners a better target to shoot at.

Ron

[Woodsheal]

Man...I don't know...seems like an orange kilt etc would just give the intoxicated gunners a better target to shoot at.

Ron

I'm 50 and have been hunting since I was 14, and have never encountered another hunter drunk in the field, or anyone intoxicated at a rifle or pistol range for that matter. These are negative stereotypes perpetuated by the anti-gun/anti-hunting nannies.

Sorry for the non-kilt related post....

[bubba]

I'm 50 and have been hunting since I was 14, and have never encountered another hunter drunk in the field, or anyone intoxicated at a rifle or pistol range for that matter. These are negative stereotypes perpetuated by the anti-gun/anti-hunting nannies.

Sorry for the non-kilt related post....

I have encounted a few intoxicated and hung over hunters in my time. It does happen.