Hunter Safety

Grouse45 · 07-11-2011, 05:23 PM

Everybody has different opinions on safety just like Muzzleloaders. I think every state should wear orange in gun/muzzleloader season. Or at least put a orange belt around the tree.

WHY...So i can see you and don't shoot towards you. That's why i think a Orange hat or something should be used to let me know your 200yds across the field or creak bottom from me. Heck i would probably move if i saw you.

The Orange doesn't bother the Deer trust me. It's the movement that they notice. Be safe guy's, it's just not worth it any other way.

bronko22000 · 07-11-2011, 05:28 PM

Grouse - I agree with you. Now, tell me all your good hunting areas so I can go buy about 50 orange hats and hang them every 200 yds then sit in the middle.....

cayugad · 07-11-2011, 05:34 PM

The concept of Blaze Orange for hunting is a good thing. I am sure its saved lives. I have found that if you do not move, the deer don't really seem spooked as much as you might think. I even wear a blaze orange hat when I bird hunt for pheasants. Other then ducks, I normally have blaze orange on. Unless hunting on my land.

flounder33 · 07-11-2011, 05:41 PM

Turkey season everybody wears camo and it seems we have a lot more accidents arround here in Turkey season. I'm a firm believer in the orange.

Gm54-120 · 07-11-2011, 05:48 PM

You cant see my hunter orange in my stand anyway but i do wear it. Its mandatory in Mo, except for archery season IIRC but i would still wear it if it wasn't. Once in the stand we do put a orange hat in a visible location.

Muley Hunter · 07-11-2011, 06:14 PM

I don't understand why they don't have to wear it in archery season in Colorado?

It runs the same time as ML season, so there's guys in the mountains with guns.

Josmund · 07-11-2011, 06:21 PM

I've hunted the wide open plains in SD and KS. I can pick out the orange a mile away. Not only does it help with safety, it helps keep the order on public or shared properties.

All members of my party light up like an orange christmas tree.

falcon · 07-11-2011, 06:42 PM

What Grouse said.

BTW: i wear blaze orange in turkey season and it doesn't seem to bother the turkeys. When we lived in WV there were hunters shot during turkey season than in deer season: You could hunt turkeys in WV with high power rifles then and some of those shootings were really bad.

W.W. · 07-11-2011, 06:42 PM

Here in Arkansas portable and pop up ground blinds on public land during firearm deer, bear,elk has got to have at least 144 square inches of hunter orange or chartreuse on each visible sides at least 3 feet above the ground. I think it is new for this year.

builder459 · 07-11-2011, 07:06 PM

Simply put it isn't necessary and is no substitute for knowing what your aiming at period! Nuff said!