Hunting clothing

[CoElkHunter]

I prefer a deerstalker.

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Are those Westley Richard’s shooting socks and Wing Tip shoes? And where’s your fluorescent orange? LOL

 

[CoElkHunter]

This is a Balmoral bonnet (a tam o shanter is similar).

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This is a glengarry.

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I’d wear one if it was 100 percent wool? Just not to elk camp. They’d bungy cord me to a tree for the duration of the hunt! LOL

 

[CoElkHunter]

Permethrin!

Especially on the thong underneath the kilt.

 

[Ryan]

I regularly wear a Utilikilt fishing in Alaska. Hunting, not so much. I thought about it for southern Africa but thorn trees catch on lose clothing and a kilt is pretty lose compared to shorts, so the shorts won out. Bugs can fly up it a bit more than shorts, which I'm also often in, but not much. As for ticks, they crawl up your leg, so the difference between a kilt and shorts is nil.

For me a Irish flat cap is my standard.

 

[BeeMaa]

Are those Westley Richard’s shooting socks and Wing Tip shoes? And where’s your fluorescent orange? LOL

The picture posted by @SFRanger7GP shows wing tips. However traditional Scottish dress is stockings (tall socks folded over), flashes (pieces of tartan or flashy color to hold the stockings up), and ghillie brogues (shoes with laces around the calf).

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

Are those Westley Richard’s shooting socks and Wing Tip shoes? And where’s your fluorescent orange? LOL

The hose are house of cheviot, who also makes shooting socks.

I think I’d just gotten that coat back from the dry cleaner and thought it’d make a fun photo.

Realistically, I’d wear boots and gaiters if I did want to wear a kilt deer stalking. Our deer season starts in October though, and it’s really too hot for all that wool.

Might work for late season quail though.

 

[SFRanger7GP]

If I am going to be on my feet for a long time, I can’t wear the ghillie brogues. I normally only wear my brogues on Robbie Burns night.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

The picture posted by @SFRanger7GP shows wing tips. However traditional Scottish dress is stockings (tall socks folded over), flashes (pieces of tartan or flashy color to hold the stockings up), and ghillie brogues (shoes with laces around the calf).
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Ghillie brogues are mostly promoted by pipers and the kilt hire industry.

Brogued wingtips are the standard. The Royal Regiment of Scotland still wears them with their parade uniforms.

 

[CoElkHunter]

I regularly wear a Utilikilt fishing in Alaska. Hunting, not so much. I thought about it for southern Africa but thorn trees catch on lose clothing and a kilt is pretty lose compared to shorts, so the shorts won out. Bugs can fly up it a bit more than shorts, which I'm also often in, but not much. As for ticks, they crawl up your leg, so the difference between a kilt and shorts is nil.

For me a Irish flat cap is my standard.

That's why I would wear neither! I've been eatin alive here in Colorado in the backcountry fishing in June while wearing pants, a long sleeve shirt, BB cap and a bandana covering my face, ALL treated with DEET. Not as bad with DEET, but still suffered mosquito bites. I can't imagine that much "fun" in Alaska wearing shorts or a kilt?

 

[CoElkHunter]

The picture posted by @SFRanger7GP shows wing tips. However traditional Scottish dress is stockings (tall socks folded over), flashes (pieces of tartan or flashy color to hold the stockings up), and ghillie brogues (shoes with laces around the calf).
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There's the fluorescent orange! As long as the heels of the brogues don't have metal on the heels for "tap dancing" (I had a pair of wing tips in Jr High School with the taps on them- all the rage at the time!), they're all set for the hunting fields! I'll walk behind them. LOL

 

[Ryan]

That's why I would wear neither! I've been eatin alive here in Colorado in the backcountry fishing in June while wearing pants, a long sleeve shirt, BB cap and a bandana covering my face, ALL treated with DEET. Not as bad with DEET, but still suffered mosquito bites. I can't imagine that much "fun" in Alaska wearing shorts or a kilt?

Depends on where and when. Central and northern parts of the state, forget it. Both mosquitoes and biting flies can be just miserable and you're in a bug suit plus repellant at times. But the Kenai peninsula and streams off of the Susitna river aren't bad, especially if it's breezy.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

There's the fluorescent orange! As long as the heels of the brogues don't have metal on the heels for "tap dancing" (I had a pair of wing tips in Jr High School with the taps on them- all the rage at the time!), they're all set for the hunting fields! I'll walk behind them. LOL

Brogued country shoes with lugged soles are not uncommon in the UK.

Fortunately for me, blaze orange isn’t required in California (I do wear an orange ballcap deer hunting). My understanding is that it’s nearly unheard of in the UK.

 

[SFRanger7GP]

For us proud wearers of the kilt, how about a “hunt in the kilt” challenge for this hunting season?

 

[SFRanger7GP]

For us proud wearers of the kilt, how about a “hunt in the kilt” challenge for this hunting season?

We could call it the Roualeyn Gordon Cumming challenge.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Brogued country shoes with lugged soles are not uncommon in the UK.

Fortunately for me, blaze orange isn’t required in California (I do wear an orange ballcap deer hunting). My understanding is that it’s nearly unheard of in the UK.

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Nice looking shoe! For big game hunting here in Colorado, hunters must wear a solid fluorescent orange (and/or fluorescent pink- not kidding) vest and hat/cap. No camo orange/pink allowed. I wear an orange cap (not required) when pheasant hunting with a large group. I find it interesting the various hunting rules around the world with regards to the wearing of orange or not when big game hunting? I think here in the US with all of the public land hunting and having many hunters in the same area, is why these laws came about?

 

[CoElkHunter]

For us proud wearers of the kilt, how about a “hunt in the kilt” challenge for this hunting season?

With lots of photos! LOL

 

[CoElkHunter]

For us proud wearers of the kilt, how about a “hunt in the kilt” challenge for this hunting season?

When it's freezing out, wear a pair of womens' nylon stockings/panty hose for warmth. I kid you not. A guy I worked with years ago, came from Illinois and wore those here under his duty pants in very cold weather. I could never bring myself to try them though. LOL

 

[SFRanger7GP]

When it's freezing out, wear a pair of womens' nylon stockings/panty hose for warmth. I kid you not. A guy I worked with years ago, came from Illinois and wore those here under his duty pants in very cold weather. I could never bring myself to try them though. LOL

I can’t let anything come between me and my kilt.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

Nice looking shoe! For big game hunting here in Colorado, hunters must wear a solid fluorescent orange (and/or fluorescent pink- not kidding) vest and hat/cap. No camo orange/pink allowed. I wear an orange cap (not required) when pheasant hunting with a large group. I find it interesting the various hunting rules around the world with regards to the wearing of orange or not when big game hunting? I think here in the US with all of the public land hunting and having many hunters in the same area, is why these laws came about?

Wow, the no orange camo surprises me. It does seem odd that with all the other nanny state stuff in California, they don’t require orange.

I agree that it’s probably based on public land accidents. I hunt private for the most part but it’s adjacent to public and we have had trespassers before so I figure a cap is cheap insurance.

Learning about UK “hunting” has been an education. I put hunting in quotes because the term has a very specific meaning there. You hunt foxes on horseback, shoot grouse with a gun, and stalk deer with a rifle and every one of those has its own rituals. It’s all tied heavily to history and class.

For instance, a driven shoot has all manner of expectations for dress, behavior, and manners. Tweed and a tie is expected (it would be considered rude to the other “guns” to dress inappropriately for what is a bit formal of an event). Pumps and autos would be considered gauche and result in not getting invited back. Some of it may seem snobbish but one also has to consider that such an event is expensive and the guests have expectations of how it will be run.

On the other hand, a deer stalk on an English farm is far less formal and I’ve seen photos of stalkers in surplus British army parkas.

Rough shooting, as they call it in the UK, is probably much more like anything we would recognize in the US.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Wow, the no orange camo surprises me. It does seem odd that with all the other nanny state stuff in California, they don’t require orange.

I agree that it’s probably based on public land accidents. I hunt private for the most part but it’s adjacent to public and we have had trespassers before so I figure a cap is cheap insurance.

Learning about UK “hunting” has been an education. I put hunting in quotes because the term has a very specific meaning there. You hunt foxes on horseback, shoot grouse with a gun, and stalk deer with a rifle and every one of those has its own rituals. It’s all tied heavily to history and class.

For instance, a driven shoot has all manner of expectations for dress, behavior, and manners. Tweed and a tie is expected (it would be considered rude to the other “guns” to dress inappropriately for what is a bit formal of an event). Pumps and autos would be considered gauche and result in not getting invited back. Some of it may seem snobbish but one also has to consider that such an event is expensive and the guests have expectations of how it will be run.

On the other hand, a deer stalk on an English farm is far less formal and I’ve seen photos of stalkers in surplus British army parkas.

Rough shooting, as they call it in the UK, is probably much more like anything we would recognize in the US.

I find all of these hunting rules and etiquette in various countries around the world VERY fascinating to ME. I applaud their sense of tradition, decorum and unique hunting styles. I probably will never get to experience this type of hunting, but I, and probably many others here, SURELY enjoy reading about the experiences of those like yourself who have. Thanks to you and many others here who have shared their worldwide hunting experiences with all of us living here in the US.