Hunting out of a blind
09-05-2005, 08:10 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Christian County, Illinois
Posts: 124
Hunting out of a blind
During Illinois's shotgun season, If you hunt out of a ground blind do you have to have a blaze orange cap on your blind. I know that ameristep makes one. Any of the illinois hunters in here know the rules?
09-05-2005, 08:20 AM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Darien, IL
Posts: 6,744
RE: Hunting out of a blind
Big gray area here Jake, the regulations say the hunter must wear the orange.
And by the way, any person involved in a deer drive, regardless of whether thay have afirearm in hand, is a hunter, and must have a license and the orange. Intresting bit that came up in hunter safety ed classes.
And by the way, any person involved in a deer drive, regardless of whether thay have afirearm in hand, is a hunter, and must have a license and the orange. Intresting bit that came up in hunter safety ed classes.
09-05-2005, 08:38 AM
#3
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Christian County, Illinois
Posts: 124
RE: Hunting out of a blind
That is the way that I interpret it also...It never says that your blind must have orange...But something tells me the game warden would probably tell me otherwise
09-05-2005, 09:05 AM
#4
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blissfield MI USA
Posts: 5,293
RE: Hunting out of a blind
Call them and ask. I live in MI and don't have any orange on my blind. Nor do I wear orange when I'm in it. Sort of defeats the purpose of using a blind I think. I wear orange walking to an from my blind, even though it is no private property.
Paul
Paul
09-05-2005, 10:30 AM
#5
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: Hunting out of a blind
This is how a deer see's Blaze Orange
Deer are essentially red-green color blind like some humans. Their color vision is limited to the short (blue) and middle (green) wavelength colors.
Deer are essentially red-green color blind like some humans. Their color vision is limited to the short (blue) and middle (green) wavelength colors.
09-05-2005, 12:47 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Auburn NY
Posts: 131
RE: Hunting out of a blind
while using my blind last season i took orange survayors tape and wrapped it around a few trees that where close to my blind. i also attached several bo swatches taken from a old vest and used safety pins to attch them to the blind itself. those in my hunting party could see the bo with their eyes and if they used bino's could plainly see the blind itself
