Kilted hunting

[yoippari]

I am considering getting one of those 22oz WPG kilts for hunting. I recently went out with my dad for me to scout around a little and him to get a deer (he didn't but that isn't the point). I wore a SWK standard black stewart, kilt hose, t-shirt, medium weight cotton shirt and a blaze orange wind breaker and I was comfortable. The walking probably helped a little, but with temperatures just under 50 the back of my calves could tell it was a little chilly out.

So, what are your experiances hunting (or even hiking, but you have to go through brush and something with thorns for it to count ) while kilted? What did you wear? If it was wool did you have any problems with it getting dirty and for a hunting kilt, would you care?

Oh ya, I just bought a 8mm mauser (romanian stamped brno vz40) with a Lyman peep sight. It isn't original so modifying it isn't sacralige and it still fulfills my requirement of it not being a plastic turd capable of hitting a target at several hundred yards. Plan on using it for deer and elk. Probably a little big for antelope and small for bear.

[James]

A traditional kilt is a tough garment, and will stand up as well if not better than anything else to the rigours of hunting-travel in rough country.

Wear it.

James

[Jerry]

Our muzzle loading deer season starts next Saturday, and the regular season comes in on the 18th of the month. Due to terrain in central and eastern Va, a lot of our hunting is done from stands or blinds set up in travel areas. The temperature here this morning is 28 deg, F. Sitting up in a tree or in a blind for several hours without moving would be pretty cold in a kilt, under those conditions. We usually have a week or so of Indiam summer during the seasons though, where the temperature might range from high 50s to near 80. I might try a kilt on one of those days.

[David Thornton]

Well, I don't plan on sitting in a duck blind in a kilt, so there goes half of my season. I will feild trial my setter in a kilt next weekend.
My wife picked up a very nice Enfield from the Ishpor armory for me in September. I will probably use it over the first weekend of our gun season, but not kilted.
David

[Wompet]

.... I will feild trial my setter in a kilt next weekend.
David

Your dog must be some sort of amazing if it can do field trials in a kilt!

Seriously, I've done hiking in the NW PA woods kilted. Most brambles, briars, prickers and smaller thorns don't penetrate my lightweight wool kilt, but it does get snagged occassionally. My Original and Survival UKs are better at not getting snagged. My Workman's UK is the best, but I avoid wearing brown in the woods during hunting season. My "good" medium-weight kilt doesn't go out in the woods on a regular basis.

I wouldn't wear a kilt in a tree stand, but for moving around on the ground ... I have been thinking about a PK in Texas Orange or Orange Camo for next year.

[Woodsheal]

Highland soldiers operating in the N. American woods back in the 1700's quickly adopted Indian-style leggings of wool or deerskin, or military gaitors of canvas, due to the prickly underbrush. I like to hunt with my flintlock, and in 18th C. garb. When I go "Scottish", I don a belted plaid (great kilt), and one of the leg coverings mentioned above. It's warm and functional. Being able to wrap the upper part of the plaid around your shoulders, or even up over your head, turns in into a hooded coat...!

[yoippari]

correction, it is a vz24 I do plan on putting a little money into a new trigger, and possibly modifying the lyman peep sight to allow the stripper clips to be used.

[David Thornton]

Wompet, yes she is and thank you. She resisted at first, she is of English decent. But later allowed that it gave the other dogs a sporting chance.
David

[Owl of Oban]

Haven't taken a kilt hunting yet, but all mine are worsted. I think I'd probably want to pick up a canvas kilt were I committed to a kilted hunt.

I use gore-tex gaiters for hill-walking/hiking in the kilt. Kilt hose are obviously too expensive and not the right garment for that type of activity. Heck, even good hiking socks are expensive and need protection.

Going to give cross-country skiing a go this winter in a kilt. I'll report on that outing once we get enough of the white stuff on the ground.

Oh, and for deer and elk, I use a 1903A4 sniper variant of the venerable Springfield. It sports the might cartridge of '06 and the very best scope money could buy....in the 1930s, a Lyman Alaskan 2.5 power.

[yoippari]

I looked at a 1903A(something) at the gunshow in town yesterday. It looked bettern than probably all of the k98s at the show but it just isn't what I was looking for.

Just out of curiosity how "original" is your springfield? What condition?

I like old things, swords, rifles, furniture...