Hunter Safety
07-11-2011, 07:32 PM
#11
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
Posts: 10,917
Can't agree with that Builder. It just too easy to know exactly what you're aiming at (an your attention will certainly be focused on that deer) without realizing there's someone out there in the background. If everyone hunted from an elevated platform and all shots were down at 50 yards it probably wouldn't matter. But get on the ground in open country and fields and it's real easy for someone to be out behind your target that you would never notice without orange.
07-11-2011, 09:15 PM
#13
Spike
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 80
Blaze orange is a tool used to keep you safe from hunters that are capable of seeing it. Deer have picked out my blaze orange many times, whether it is because the deer has escaped other orange clad hunters, or because to the deer the orange is perceived as a solid bright patch of white or gray. The deer that pay no attention to orange have not been conditioned to do so. It only takes 1 or 2 run-ins with hunters for deer to avoid it.
07-12-2011, 12:08 AM
#14
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Central Connecticut
Posts: 766
Seeing orange does serve as an alert that another hunter is located beyond the target that he intends to shoot at and in the direct or indirect line of fire.
Being aware is better than not being aware that someone else is in the area.
Being aware is better than not being aware that someone else is in the area.
07-12-2011, 04:44 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Anne Arrundle County, Maryland
Posts: 1,672
Blaze Orange is certainly an important and useful tool in safety during firearms and muzzle loader season. But let us all not forget about the importance of safe firearms handling. The rules we have all learned are what keeps us safe from each other AND OURSELVES.
07-12-2011, 05:23 AM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: MN
Posts: 1,068
I guess I'm somewhere in the middle. I think blaze orange is important. I also think some states go way overboard with it. I'd have to look back for sure but I believe Wyoming was 1 visible article of clothing. Most people were smart and took that to mean a shirt of vest. There were a few that would go out with just a hat. But you could still see them. The nice thing is it helped to point out the out-of-staters. They were the ones walking around in blaze from head to toe.
07-12-2011, 05:50 AM
#18
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
500 inches on the torso, and head.
To the thread:
For those who think the deer/elk are seeing the blaze orange. You could have brighteners on the vest. Wash it it the same non brightener soap you use on the rest of your hunting clothes.
You do wash your clothes with non brightener soap don't you?
To the thread:
For those who think the deer/elk are seeing the blaze orange. You could have brighteners on the vest. Wash it it the same non brightener soap you use on the rest of your hunting clothes.
You do wash your clothes with non brightener soap don't you?