Hunters Orange
 

There was a post several months about the effects of wearing hunters orange while deer hunting. I cannot seem to find that post. If anyone can find that post and post a link it would be greatly appreciated.

Can deer see a hunter in a treestand wearing a hunters orange vest?

RE: Hunters Orange
 

http://www.whitetail.com/camo1.html

Here's a link on camo (hawaiian shirt one) I'n not sure if this is what you're looking for or not. here's the thread link http://forum.hunting.net/asppg/tm.asp?m=975119&mpage=2&key=orangeunder the title "Putting camo into perspective"

RE: Hunters Orange
 

IMO if it's blaze camo you should be OK.and not shiney
During gun season I have to use blaze orange camo and I have had them look right at me and go back to feeding .

Johnch

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We have to wear 500 inches of blaze orange.

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I tend to agree. Now, does a vest cover 500 square inches? I know that a hat and a small vest cover the 250 square inch requirement for PA hunting but would think you would at least need a full sized vest and hat to come close to covering 500 inches.

As always, I think it depends on the situation though. If you are not moving around much and you aren't in front of a dark background then I think you would be fine with what you mentioned.

RE: Hunters Orange
 

If I remember right, Washington State's modern firearms hunters are required to wear 500 sq. inches of blaze orange as well and a regular sized vest and hat meet this requirment.

RE: Hunters Orange
 

Hmm, I measured my vest and the regular $2 orange vest has over 500 inches of orange.

RE: Hunters Orange
 

I dye a deer hide and wear it

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Zak, it all depends. If you just buy one at Bass Pro and take it out to hunt that evening the deer will see the uv lights in the material. However, if you wash it in a uv killer the deers only chance to see you is through movement. They will notice the seperation in camo across your chest. Thats just for a solid orange vest though. A camo orange vest will resolve that problem.

RE: Hunters Orange
 

deer are basically color blind,
they cant see the orange like we do,
what they do see is patterns,
wearing a solid color of any color is more noticeable than a breakup pattern with hunter orange in it,
hunter orange isnot required here in NY, i still wear Hunter orange as much as possible,
even on my own property,

RE: Hunters Orange
 

We have to wear it in every season but archery. We cannot take it off even when in the stand. I wish there was a way to break up the orange, but I don't know how I can legally do that.

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Can you wear a pattern such as this?
a pattern such as this is harder to detect than anything solid

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jhtml?id=0005424930724a&navAction=push&am p;navCount=2&indexId=cat470104&podId=00054 24&catalogCode=QR&parentId=cat470104&p arentType=index&rid=&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fe n%2Fcommon%2Fcatalog%2Fitem-link.jhtml_A&_DAV=MainCatcat470076&hasJS=t rue

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Nope, it has to be solid orange.

RE: Hunters Orange
 

that sux,

having to wear Orange wouldnt bother me,

having to wear something solid would,

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I've always heard that deer aren't as color blind as they've been made out to be. Though they did give up some color vision to be able to see so well in the dark. The red and red hues is what they gave up, that's why blaze orange is so difficult for them to see. A deer sees it as just another shade of grey. From what I've heard their green vision is about as much as our would be if not better.
Up in the UP of Michigan it seems that a lot of people are wearing blaze orange coveralls that have splotches of black in it. It still meets the mininum blaze orange requirment and breaks up their outline. It makes sense to me, I might get myself a set this year for gun season.

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You could always smear some strategically placed patches of mud on solid blaze and still meet the requirement . ;)

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Hah, Kevin, I like how you think.

Uh, sorry sir, I slipped in mud this morning. Yea, in that mud hole, oh say about 2 miles away.:D

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yeah that's how it is in kentucky and florida if i'm not mistakened. when i was gun hunting this last season i just tried to keep my torso behind a tree as much as i could ( i was hunting on the ground). it worked ok. but i forgot that i had that hat on and i'm pretty sure some does notice the hat slowly moving back and forth from behind the tree ;). but it didn't help the buck that came out with them :D:)

RE: Hunters Orange
 

I don't think deer will see you 25to30 feet in a tree