Hunter orange

You only need to wear orange if it is a controlled hunt. So if you are hunting rabbits crows, squirrels... you need to have the mandatory orange. In Ontario with a shotgun there is a legal shot size you may possess if you aren't participating in the controlled too.
The exception is waterfowl hunting, both to shot size and orange.
 
Pyd said:
You only need to wear orange if it is a controlled hunt. So if you are hunting rabbits crows, squirrels... you need to have the mandatory orange. In Ontario with a shotgun there is a legal shot size you may possess if you aren't participating in the controlled too.
The exception is waterfowl hunting, both to shot size and orange.
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Unless it is a big game season in which case you need blaze even to partridge hunt.
 
Raton57 said:
I hunted my whole life almost with out having to wear orange or red. I found that the only times I did get shot at was when I did have orange on.I am having trouble since I moved east to even remember I have to wear it here. Lucky I had bought some to hunt on the army base in Alberta years ago.
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SAY WHAT :confused:

You get shot at often?
 
Raton57 said:
I hunted my whole life almost with out having to wear orange or red. I found that the only times I did get shot at was when I did have orange on.I am having trouble since I moved east to even remember I have to wear it here. Lucky I had bought some to hunt on the army base in Alberta years ago.
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senior said:
SAY WHAT :confused:

You get shot at often?
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HAHA I thought the exact same thing as senior when i read this....
 
cityhunter said:
why wouldnt u wear Blaze orange? i wear it anytime im in the bush ...ESP during the hunting seasosn....Id prefer the bullets stay clear of me
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But yet, almost nobody in western Canada wears orange, and I feel perfectly safe. And I don't think the stats show you are any safer.
 
If you want to go to crown land and shoot, you are entirely within your rights to. DO NOT WEAR BLAZE ORANGE!! CO's will assume you are hunting if you are wearing blaze. Wear a bright coloured shirt or coat, bring nothing but gun, ammo, and targets. Make it very obvious that you are not hunting ie (Dont wear anything camo, dont have any calls or attractants etc). Dont venture too far into the bush, and make no effort to conceal yourself.
 
riden said:
But yet, almost nobody in western Canada wears orange, and I feel perfectly safe. And I don't think the stats show you are any safer.
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Well, the stats might not show it but common sense sure does. Anybody else ever notice how much a moose or deer walking away from you looks like a walking person especially in low light?

Last year while driving to a spot with a few other hunters, we noticed something walking on the side of the road about 250 yards away. We glassed it with binos and it turned out to be a man in brown and camo clothes. It might sound stupid, but I can tell you from that distance and in that light it sure looked like a moose walking away from us.

Now I consider myself a safe and responsible hunter, but you should never underestimate the stupidity of others. A different hunter may have glassed the man with their scope, or fired on him with open sights. Who knows? But after the experience of seeing what a man can look like from a distance in less than perfect light, you'll never catch me in the woods during season without hunter's orange.
 
mvarley84 said:
If you want to go to crown land and shoot, you are entirely within your rights to. DO NOT WEAR BLAZE ORANGE!! CO's will assume you are hunting if you are wearing blaze. Wear a bright coloured shirt or coat, bring nothing but gun, ammo, and targets. Make it very obvious that you are not hunting ie (Dont wear anything camo, dont have any calls or attractants etc). Dont venture too far into the bush, and make no effort to conceal yourself.
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I would asolutely WEAR BLAZE ORANGE,and probably stay home from target shooting,during hunting season..Being stopped by a CO may be a life saver....
 
Doogs said:
I'm not going out to try to be a douche to hunters. I want to go to a gravel pit on crown land that is a known plinking area. If I have pumpkins and Canada Ammo paper targets, I should be in the green?
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You will be fine, do not worry about it and go out and have a good time. I have to laugh about staying out of hunter’s way in the gravel pit. The pit I shoot at around here is on crown land and has deer track everywhere like a highway in the sand. Off to the one side on a good size deer trail and a guy many years ago built a wooden tree stand there. I guess he would do well from all the sign there year round. I just would not want to hunt there as there is a lot of ATV traffic. In this area you get a lot of city people who ATV the trails right through deer season and they could interrupt your hunt. Or you could end up having the deer hiding waiting for the ATV to go by then steps out for the clear shot. I have heard of this happening before to.
 
But yet, almost nobody in western Canada wears orange, and I feel perfectly safe. And I don't think the stats show you are any safer.
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There were many doomsday predictions about increased numbers of accidental shootings when Alberta did away with the blaze orange requirement. Guess what, it didn't happen. Only an idiot would point a firearm at any object, without being 100% sure of it's identity. And idiots even point firearms at people wearing orange so that they can look at them with their scope. Idiots have also been known to shoot and kill people riding red quads, so I prefer not to wear orange, and not be seen by the idiots at all.
 
It was different coming to the Yukon from Ontario where no one where's blaze orange while hunting and accidents are a rarity. With that said i would rather err on the side of caution and wear the orange if I was back in Ontario.
 
YukonWolf said:
It was different coming to the Yukon from Ontario where no one where's blaze orange while hunting and accidents are a rarity. With that said i would rather err on the side of caution and wear the orange if I was back in Ontario.
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Agreed. You're not helping anyone but yourself, better to be safe then sorry. Especially all over southern Ontario where you have a different group on each farm(so to speak), with people almost guaranteed 100-200m from you.
 
stubblejumper said:
I would quit hunting, before I would hunt under those conditions.
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Not everywhere is that bad, but some get pretty wild. Just too many hunters down here for the size of the land(in my opinion). Since GTA keeps spreading, so people need to push out more and most people don't want to travel more then a couple hours. Still really depends the spot, some areas just get really packed by chance and others left like empty. Many people just don't put a lot of effort into finding land to hunt on.

I know on one of the lands I hunt on(which is in 82A), there's quite a few hunters around. Probably heard a good 70 shots opening day last year lol, of course quite a few times it's 2-3 in a few seconds. Could see a buck running wild on another property(looked terrified and/or panicking), didn't look injured but came from an area with gun shots. So just really spooked I suppose.
 
You folks all know that the game animals can't differentiate between blaze orange and camo???

I'd be more worried about the smell emanating from your bottom after a night a white rum and hot wings!
 
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