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Hunting in period gear....
hawkbow:
something about the color and shape of buckskins.. I don' think the animals can see me as well as when I am wearing camo.. I have had elk at five yards with the wind right and they never saw me.. this has happened enough times for me to believe that the elkskin breaks up my human form just enough to become invisible. While hunting with Wolf watcher last year He was right next to me mostly in the open, and I never saw him until he moved.. he had his buckskins on .... The bear was a cub.. it ran up my tree when I took a picture of it and it's momma and two siblings, i tried to push it out of the tree and got slapped for my efforts. momma then began tearing that tree down.. in her fury she knocked my bow from my hand and nearly uprooted the tree.Finally I shot the cub with bear spray and he left my tree.. momma was so furious I used the rest of the spray on her with little result. let me tell you having a mad momma grizz two feet from your moccasins tearing tree parts off as big as you are is one scary deal. :'( :-[ she finally left, that was one long walk back to my camp. miles back in the wilderness and bleeding.. my bow, tomohawk and knives did little to comfort me that long night walk back to camp... but the elk were bugling ;D so i stayed another two weeks.. other hunters usually are intrigued by the fact thatI hunt primitive.. I will say that one guy around here hunts in tandy leather style golden colored buckskin shirt.. I can see him from miles off .... every time... so can the elk.. he hasn't got one yet in nine years of trying.. I believe it is his bright golden buckskns... among other things.. Hawk
Stonedog:
Hawk-
I agree. When I am in my naturall dyed wool and linen....for whatever reason....it tends to just make me vanish.....my clothes are cut roomy (just like the clothing of the period)...and are all some shade of tan, brown, green or grey....only dyed with natural dyes....not Rit!
I rarely see another hunter....if I see another human I hunker down....let them pass.....or avoid them.
As far as foot wear....I wear 10t anglo-saxon tunshoes.....they are made from heavy oiltanned leather.....
predatorcaller:
i wear a lot of wool and now bucskin...moccasins, and a lot of plaid...i killed a smart ole boar groundhog wearing a bucskin shirt with a flintlock. and i killed a few deer in alaska wearing a wool plaid shirt and black wool pants...i dont really wear camo or modern hunting gear...mostly old style, it dont feel right wearing gore tec or scent lok heres some pictures of some animals ive trapped or killed wearing old style gear http://primitivehunter.blogspot.com/
huntertrapper:
thats me that posted as predatorcaller on my dads name on accidnet..... pic of me with my first kill with a flintlock and wearing traditional garbhttp://bp1.blogger.com/_n0mwegGn3K0/SHJu0Nz5whI/AAAAAAAAAAc/8PbwVHmjEZY/s1600-h/IMG_0292.JPG
stickbender:
When I hunt in Montana, I wear wool. Surplus Swedish wool pants, and coats. They are a bluish grey. I have had deer walk right up to within four feet of me. I think some of the camo stuff has the ultra violet rays due to the detergent, and the animals can pick up on that. I have sat in a rain, with a green waterproof poncho, over my head, and looked out to see deer feeding within a few feet of me. I have seen deer watch someone in a stand, and sneak off, only to come by me and never seem to notice. Could be something in the light wave length of the material. As for the Tandy leather, could be chrome tanned, or just the color is like the safety vest to the deer. Anyway, you guys looked great, and I will start looking how much leather I have accumulated and start planning on a shirt, or pants. ;)
Wayne
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