To Orange or not to orange?

powder burner said:
That sucks.
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for southern ontario you only need to wear at least 400 sq inches orange while the controlled hunts are on which is only 2 weeks a year so it isnt a big deal. the other 10 weeks of hunting deer, coyote, turkey, waterfowl and small game you dont need orange.

in many areas where the controlled hunts (shotgun and muzzleloader) take place opening morning sounds like world war 3 and you would have to be a complete idiot not to wear orange. far too many idiots from the cities unload on deer or shoot at what they think are deer :mad:
 
in many areas where the controlled hunts (shotgun and muzzleloader) take place opening morning sounds like world war 3 and you would have to be a complete idiot not to wear orange. far too many idiots from the cities unload on deer or shoot at what they think are deer
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Orange or not,I wouldn't hunt there.
 
canadian hunter312 said:
in many areas where the controlled hunts (shotgun and muzzleloader) take place opening morning sounds like world war 3 and you would have to be a complete idiot not to wear orange. far too many idiots from the cities unload on deer or shoot at what they think are deer :mad:
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This might be stretching it a bit . I've never thought it was that bad,and I've been out every opening morning for the last 20 years.
 
I wear full orange coveralls and dont even take them off to dress a deer. Too many citiot 'once a year' hunters out there. Its quite evident they only handle a gun once a year because most arent familliar enough with thier gun to safely operate it.

I hunt my own land but every year some citiot gets turned around on a 100 acre farm and stumble onto my property..............gun still loaded of course. Must be scared of the coyotes...:rolleyes:
 
Of course the fly-in-the-ointment in all of this is that hunter orange will not protect you from being shot by a myopic, color blind hunter.:eek::p Mandatory eye tests for Elmer Fudds & aging baby boomer hunters? Not!
 
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savage112 said:
This might be stretching it a bit . I've never thought it was that bad,and I've been out every opening morning for the last 20 years.
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ive been out for maybe 7-8 opening mornings of the first week. in normally quiet areas where i may see one or two other hunters from october to february, hearing 30+ shots by 45 minutes after dawn is considered a war for such a quiet area.;) the same quiet area that will have a few trucks parked at each driveway around the concession...maybe 15 hunters on a concession blasting away at every deer they see whether they are in range or not...


personally i hate the controlled hunts around here. brings out all the dips**t wanna be hunters...

the only good thing about all of these morons running around in the bush without a clue is we know where to sit and wait for the spooked deer that these dummies scare our way;)
 
don't wear it unless the law says I have to (big game gun season). if someone shoots at me well... I'm shootin' back. They'll figure out I'm not a rabbit real quick :) lol

edit: before anyone says anything about laws (haven't read through the whole thread) etc ... it would be completely warranted in this case. Mistaken identity yes ... but they're still trying to kill what they're shooting at. Thus I'd be defending myself from attempted murder. Yell and wave you're arms etc. so he knows you're there ... after 2 rounds out of a 12 gauge he can't hear #### for a couple seconds ...yelling wouldn't help.
 
Most animals don't see colors like we do,they really notice things we call color by things that don't belong! Like hunting on the snow with a black suit,or in a green forest in a white suit. There is a lot of orange in fall dead leaves ,sumach,so deer and most animals don't think much of it. Just that a lot of people have killed deer in blue jeans,and blue is supposed to be the one color that is not replicated in the wild other than blue berries or flowers.

I would think wearing orange would be the least you could do to warn other hunters that you are there!

Bob
 
I technically don't have to wear it, but I do anyways. I'm thinking about getting a MaxP pack in orange and leaving it at that.

This pack:

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in this color scheme:

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Gatehouse said:
The difference being that seatbelts have been proven to save lives and reduce injuries, and blaze orange has not.;)
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I don't know how to convince the unconvincable. Seems logical that if you can see clearly blaze orange for miles around, that you wouldn't get shot at (unless it was on purpose, of course! Any enemies?).

I can understand the desire to wear camo and play soldier and go incognito, but not at the cost of getting one in the chest because of "mistaken identity" or purely by accident because they didn't know someone was there. (Even some on here have mentionned they would fire back at anyone firing in their direction. How is the shooter/hunter supposed to know that he was firing towards someone if he can't see them?) You, personally, may have areas where hunter population is low, but here there are literally what some call "war zones" where there are more hunters per square kilometer than there is game. In these areas, there are quite a few eager beavers (and some trigger happy) that want to put game down before it crosses the hill and winds up in someone else's lap. Add to this small game hunters wandering around places that only game animals would go through and you have a recipe for disaster.

Some 20 to 30 years ago, we too didn`t want to wear orange when they introduced the law. We thought it would scare game. Still even then we use to wear blaze orange hats so we could see each other in the forest and not shoot in each others direction. The hats alone were extemely usefull when two or more went off together treking for rabbits and partridge. It avoided some real ugly situations.

Any how, enough said.
 
What I can't understand is the fact that some provinces demand that hunters wear orange, but anybody else in the bush does not have to!:confused:
We wear orange when upland hunting because there is always a chance of cross fire when swinging on a bird, and an orange is very easily seen out of the corner of your eye in that instance, or someone across a hedgerow.

In Alberta we don't have to wear orange, of course, because it was thrown out after the Government realizing it was a law that only pertained to hunters, not everyone else in the bush.
After Alberta got rid of their orange law, incidents involving shooting have not gone up, but people still get shot because of poor firearms handling....
Cat
 
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