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I just read about this on another board and figured you guys would be going stinking NUTS[:@]. THis is just crazy to even think of this as being a possibility.[:' (]

I hope that is doesn' t make it as it would make bowhunting ever harder.

Well I will be following this in much more detail from now on and will be addressing this problem.

Brian

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God forbid the PGC ever actually asks OUR input, the guys who are doing the hunting, what WE think before they come up with this stuff...........I' m not easily irritated but this really chaps my butt.[:@] Is there a SINGLE bowhunter in this entire state who would actually think this is needed?
Never, notta, have I EVER felt in any sort of danger while bowhunting even with the prescence of gun hunters.
So here we go again catering to the .000000001% of hunters who can' t take responsibility for identifying a legal game animal rather than the guys who are trying their darndest on their hard earned days off to take a deer with a bow or flintlock.
And I don' t even want to hear that " Orange doesn' t matter to a deer" .......I' ve been hunting long enough to dismiss that theory as crap. This is one of the STUPIDEST shortsighted regulation proposals I' ve seen. Just keep on regulating us to death, every year more and more new regulations IMO just so a few POLITICIANS can look like they are doing something with hunters in mind. This state never ceases to amaze me.

At most ,yes, I can see a usefullness in wearing some orange while moving around during the overlaps........no biggie and serves a legitimate purpose......but 22 feet up in a treestand?

If this actually somehow manages to pass, to tell the truth I don' t even know if I will follow it.........honestly.........come and get me. But if after the initial anger passes and I will probably continue to be a law abiding sportsman as usual, if a WCO uses that 250sq. inches of orange to hunt ME down and disrupt a hunt , and my precious and hard earned time off I' ll be lucky if I don' t leave in cuffs because I might just invent a few new curse words.
Just another case of how we have to fight tooth and nail for change that we see as good, and get other mindless things we absolutely don' t need handed to us instead.

Obvious emotions aside I think we really do need a level headed response to this, and I guess I will be writing my letters.[:' (] Good thing I have WORD.

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Thanks for the addresses, Archer![:-]

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It all come' s down to one' s freedom in question, what a shame, haveing been
lucky to hunt in many state' s around this great country, nowhere have I ever met
such knoligable and well informed hunters then P.A. and M.I. here in N.Y.
it is still your choice even during the firearm' s season, and I' m very thankfull for
that, if they told me I would have to wear saftey color' s during bow, or even worse
spring gobbler, I would proubly move, but i guess I coulden' t go to P.a.:D

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I for one won' t wear orange in my tree stand. I' ll wear it waking to and from but I draw the line at wearing it in my stand. I' m not worried about a game warden finding me. Its been many years since I' ve bumped into a game warden while hunting.

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I can' t really see getting so upset, I haven' t worn orange in a treestand ever, no matter what the season. That' s what backpacks are for. :D Wear it in, then stash it, then wear it out, no big deal.
Of course I' m just as amazed as you guys at the PGC and their antics.

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I could prolly live with putting an oragne band around the tree , or maybe one a few feet away like we do for turkey. But wearing a rifle hunting outfit in archery is just boggus. like Jason said i spend enough money on tryin to be invisible, now that is all going down the Sh*tter if we have to wear orange.

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Just so you guys know I have taken this info down and will be passing it onto a Game Warden that I know here in Chester County. He asks me all the time what I am hearing from hunters in Pa. I' m not sure what he can do about it but maybe he can give us even more advice on how to get our opinions where they need to be. If you are interested email me a letter of your opinion too and I will print them out and pass them along. Pat