Color blind people going hunting?!?!?!?!
02-09-2007 | 09:27 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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From: HENDERSON KY USA
RE: Color blind people going hunting?!?!?!?!
There is no orange in the pic.
My point is if this is what is 100 yards BEHIND the deer.Would a colorblind person see them? (Would YOU see them)Even if they had orange on,that would be what they would see.Or should I say,not see?
I have seen or read NO WHERE that the person said he thought the person was a deer.He said he could not see the orange.IT IS POSSIBLE he missed a deer and hit someone behind the deer because he could not see the orange of a person that was at a distance and completely concealed in camo.
Him being colorblind would make it very hard to see them hiding in the brush,or even in a stand.
If he shot the person,on purpose,thinking he was a deer,then he is an idiot.PERIOD.But we do not know this to be the case.Just reserve JUDGEMENT untill the facts are in.
I still believe a colorblind person has every right to hunt,but special precautions by them and there hunting partners need to be taken.
Trust me when I say this can happen.I posted the story on this thread where I was in this situation and the shot would have killed a person if I couldn't have seen the orange AND the deer was missed.They were 10 yards off the property line and we had no idea they were there.I was on the ground with a 13 year old kid and the shot was slightly up through the woods,toward the property line.If I was colorblind and couldn't see the orange,I might have let him shoot and God forbid what would have happened if he would have missed.
My point is if this is what is 100 yards BEHIND the deer.Would a colorblind person see them? (Would YOU see them)Even if they had orange on,that would be what they would see.Or should I say,not see?
I have seen or read NO WHERE that the person said he thought the person was a deer.He said he could not see the orange.IT IS POSSIBLE he missed a deer and hit someone behind the deer because he could not see the orange of a person that was at a distance and completely concealed in camo.
Him being colorblind would make it very hard to see them hiding in the brush,or even in a stand.
If he shot the person,on purpose,thinking he was a deer,then he is an idiot.PERIOD.But we do not know this to be the case.Just reserve JUDGEMENT untill the facts are in.
I still believe a colorblind person has every right to hunt,but special precautions by them and there hunting partners need to be taken.
Trust me when I say this can happen.I posted the story on this thread where I was in this situation and the shot would have killed a person if I couldn't have seen the orange AND the deer was missed.They were 10 yards off the property line and we had no idea they were there.I was on the ground with a 13 year old kid and the shot was slightly up through the woods,toward the property line.If I was colorblind and couldn't see the orange,I might have let him shoot and God forbid what would have happened if he would have missed.
