Blaze Orange

During Rifle or Muzzleloader season. Early Archery you don't need orange once in your stand/blind.

Rifle. There was no muzzle or archery then. I was wearing a woolrich red/ black checkered jacket which was the norm in those days and the tree exploded in front of me coming out on to a pole line
All that saved me is the guy could not shoot
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It is simple western guys don't need it central canada and eastern canada sure do based on the woods we hunt in and the numbers of hunters scattered over a small area
I am head to toe orange down here and everywhere I hunt since it sure doesn't effect the game you get but could save my life
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what's that saying

it's so good its mandatory :)

but yes I can see how some forms of hunting, pushing deer, group hunting, etc that you would want to be wearing bright colours


I spend most of the day hunting on a quad covering ground, and honestly I might see one or 2 other guys back in the bush, it really doesn't matter what I wear so I dress for comfort.
 
I hunt whitetail in SE Sask and wear full blaze. I see full camo outfits in the mall. :p In fact, I saw a Ford Super Duper Duty this afternoon parked on the street in town - full camo. :popCorn:

No argument from me about what you wear. Hunting whitetail, I wear blaze.
 
I mostly wear camo pants, a white jacket and red hat to meet requirements here. Where I hunt I very rarely see other people (more than a couple hundred yards from a road gets you away from 90% of hunters) and have never felt in danger. I do own a blaze jacket that I wear at times. It's waterproof so sometimes during rainy days in elk season I'll put it on.
 
Never felt any safer dressed up in bright colors.

Sure is nice not to have to worry about what jacket i have on, if I want to hop out of the truck and do a pass through the woodlot with a rifle in hand, too.

The idiots that shoot at noises and the like, IMO, pretty much deserve to have their rifles broken by being swung at their knees, and then be left in the bush to crawl home.

The anecdotal evidence does seem to point out to me, that being dressed in Blaze does not seem to solve that particular problem.

When I was in Saskatchewan, my clothing of choice was a pair of white overalls, and a white balaclava with a faded red ball cap on top. Legal. Pretty good camo, in the snow. I hunted a couple hills back from the roads, fewer chuckleheads out that far from their trucks.
 
Still boggles my mind there are places in this country you have to wear 80’s ski clothing to be safe while hunting. Here in BC we wear camo, and hunt a lot, never, ever had an issue or even concern.

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I have lived and hunted in Ontario since the late 60's. Have had 42yrs of all sorts of experiences. I can't say I enjoy dressing like a pumpkin. But I would rather come home alive wearing orange than dead wearing standard gear. I can't tell you how many fellas over the years that have stated they shoot at "brown movement". That statement always scares the crap out of me. I first got sold on blaze, 12 mile cloth orange in the late 70's while hunting in the Meaford tank range. Even in dim poor light you could see the hats and coats on fellas. That was the year they let hunters onto the range without repercussions and there were hunters all over the place and that range was polluted with deer so there was fellas shooting in all directions. I am convinced to this day many a mans life was saved by those blaze orange hats and coats.
Hunting here in the east in my experiences is a whole different ball game than hunting in the west. There is no right or wrong, the regions are just different in many ways, and thus demand different methods and practices.
 
I have lived and hunted in Ontario since the late 60's. Have had 42yrs of all sorts of experiences. I can't say I enjoy dressing like a pumpkin. But I would rather come home alive wearing orange than dead wearing standard gear. I can't tell you how many fellas over the years that have stated they shoot at "brown movement". That statement always scares the crap out of me. I first got sold on blaze, 12 mile cloth orange in the late 70's while hunting in the Meaford tank range. Even in dim poor light you could see the hats and coats on fellas. That was the year they let hunters onto the range without repercussions and there were hunters all over the place and that range was polluted with deer so there was fellas shooting in all directions. I am convinced to this day many a mans life was saved by those blaze orange hats and coats.
Hunting here in the east in my experiences is a whole different ball game than hunting in the west. There is no right or wrong, the regions are just different in many ways, and thus demand different methods and practices.

I agree
 
I went to the last page of this thread and responded. Then I read some of the replies.
Are some of you serious ? Wearing orange may result in someone cranking a round at you. Sweet Jesus, go bang your head.
As far as people using their scopes to ID you, do you really think that doesn't occur with people in camo ??
It's simply common sense, be seen and you are far less likely to die.
 
We must have fewer retards out in the woods than you lot out in Ontario, I guess.

Pretty fair to say that anyone I know that had a hunting party member fess up to shooting at movement or noises, would invite that person to f**k right off and don't come back. And reasonably so. That crap don't fly!

Strangely, despite opinions to the contrary, mine and the experiences of those I know, have never included any situations where blaze orange made any difference, and the news is awful quiet about the carnage that must be happening out there, if it is indeed, better to return alive, only because you dressed like a pumpkin.
 
No blaze orange requirement in BC. A few years ago there was a poll for hunters to see if they wanted an orange requirement. Virtually nobody said YES. Mostly hunters laughed at the idea.

My hunting attire has some camo, some blue and grey gortex, Stanfields grey sweater and sometimes t-shirt, jeans or shorts in the spring. And sometimes a bath robe and flip flops....Laugh2

The only orange or red items I have are small things like knives or headlamps, which makes sense since they can easily be lost.
 
I haven't worn blaze orange for big game hunting since they got rid of that foolish law, and never wore it on the trapline.
Picture this, because you were hunting in Alberta back in the day you needed blaze orange- the guy logging, surveying, or just cutting wood, or the family heading out on trikes did not need to .:p
Hunting deaths because someone NOT wearing blaze orange did not jump, in fact they have not changed since the law, according to an article written by a warden that I read a while back.
This is what I normally wear, because it's warm......
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We are all hunters here. East, west and everywhere in between. Fact: there are idiots among us.

But for some reason, on CGN at least, those from the western provinces seem to think the ratio of jerks to good guys is somehow different in their area. Why do you think that is? Something in the water? Geography? Is it the animals we hunt? Genuinely curious as to why so many of these hunting threads end up with western hunters putting down other hunters? You don’t see it going the other way.

Ardent, do you think BC hunters are better people because they get to hike around with brown bears on their backs instead of orange? Trevj, do you believe that shooting at movement/noises would fly with the average Ontario hunting party? If you think for one minute that your backyard doesn’t have the same percentage of retards as mine then imo you are either ignorant or you are one of the retards.
 
We are all hunters here. East, west and everywhere in between. Fact: there are idiots among us.

But for some reason, on CGN at least, those from the western provinces seem to think the ratio of jerks to good guys is somehow different in their area. Why do you think that is? Something in the water? Geography? Is it the animals we hunt? Genuinely curious as to why so many of these hunting threads end up with western hunters putting down other hunters? You don’t see it going the other way.

Ardent, do you think BC hunters are better people because they get to hike around with brown bears on their backs instead of orange? Trevj, do you believe that shooting at movement/noises would fly with the average Ontario hunting party? If you think for one minute that your backyard doesn’t have the same percentage of retards as mine then imo you are either ignorant or you are one of the retards.

I get the feeling that on Ontario’s public/crown land in the southern part of the province that people hunt is likely more congested than the average crown land spot in BC, which would lead to much more encounters with weekend warriors out hunting. We have so much remote crown land to access out west, I rarely see anyone else while I’m out hunting on foot. Pass the odd person on the logging roads during the first week of the opener and then again when any mule deer buck opens, otherwise it’s rare that I actually run into anyone. Wearing blaze orange isn’t a real priority around my area.
 
We are all hunters here. East, west and everywhere in between. Fact: there are idiots among us.

But for some reason, on CGN at least, those from the western provinces seem to think the ratio of jerks to good guys is somehow different in their area. Why do you think that is? Something in the water? Geography? Is it the animals we hunt? Genuinely curious as to why so many of these hunting threads end up with western hunters putting down other hunters? You don’t see it going the other way.

Ardent, do you think BC hunters are better people because they get to hike around with brown bears on their backs instead of orange? Trevj, do you believe that shooting at movement/noises would fly with the average Ontario hunting party? If you think for one minute that your backyard doesn’t have the same percentage of retards as mine then imo you are either ignorant or you are one of the retards.

It shouldn't fly, but according to what the guys from out that way are saying, it apparently does.

Sorry you feel that way.

Personally, I am stunned both by those that are so convinced it makes all the difference, wearing orange, as well as by the anecdotes they use as supporting evidence. Makes me even more happy to be here, not there.

Dude, to be perfectly clear, I am not the one claiming the high incidence of idiots afoot in the woods out parts East, the folks that are convinced that they are safer, for being required by law to wear a particular color, are claiming it.

As I implied by my previous. Either the media has been completely ignoring the carnage wrought among us guys not wearing orange, or someone is telling lies about the general efficacy of the stuff in the first place. The logical conclusion, since there does not seem a lot of hunters being shot by other hunters out here, is that if you really need that orange coat to feel safe, you must be walking among, well, retards...
 
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I get the feeling that on Ontario’s public/crown land in the southern part of the province that people hunt is likely more congested than the average crown land spot in BC, which would lead to much more encounters with weekend warriors out hunting. We have so much remote crown land to access out west, I rarely see anyone else while I’m out hunting on foot. Pass the odd person on the logging roads during the first week of the opener and then again when any mule deer buck opens, otherwise it’s rare that I actually run into anyone. Wearing blaze orange isn’t a real priority around my area.

And that sums it up 100% down east also. I have seen days where I have run into a dozen different guys hunting and here is the kicker on our private property :(
I have went back to the house for a coffee and come back to find guys in my tree stand or ground blind and not once over the years
See 4 or 5 vehicles parked behind each other on a wood road hunting and none of them know each other. Average opening morning of deer season ( when we had good deer numbers here :( ) nothing to count 30 /50 rounds being fired in the first hours

Both places east and west have idiots hunting for sure we just have more hunters including idiots per square mile in way way thicker woods
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I haven't worn blaze orange for big game hunting since they got rid of that foolish law, and never wore it on the trapline.
Picture this, because you were hunting in Alberta back in the day you needed blaze orange- the guy logging, surveying, or just cutting wood, or the family heading out on trikes did not need to .:p
Hunting deaths because someone NOT wearing blaze orange did not jump, in fact they have not changed since the law, according to an article written by a warden that I read a while back.
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I'm sorry Cat but you would not last one season here with that hat on. I just hope they donot gut you after :( It was the same pattern jacket I was wearing when I got shot at years ago
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I'm sorry Cat but you would not last one season here with that hat on. I just hope they donot gut you after :( It was the same pattern jacket I was wearing when I got shot at years ago
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I would never hunt in a place where I felt afraid to go out hunting dressed like that. If I felt that I needed to wear orange to not be shot at, I would give up hunting.
 
I would never hunt in a place where I felt afraid to go out hunting dressed like that. If I felt that I needed to wear orange to not be shot at, I would give up hunting.

No you wouldn't you love hunting too much you would dress head to toe orange as I do and buy orange toilet paper also since that flash of white having a crap has taken some out here over the years :(
Christ I dam near got taken out yesterday snowblowing my driveway when a lady went sideways and crashed into the bank in my driveway
Scared the crap out of me the bumper actually moved my coat
Hunting is much safer
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That being said I just cannot get my head around how anyone don't care what color clothes they have on shoots a man thinking it is a rabbit F'ken unreal

3 men were rabbit hunting in Weymouth, N.S., when one got separated from group and was shot
CBC News · Posted: Jan 27, 2020 11:02 AM AT | Last Updated: January 27
A 20-year-old man was shot but is expected to survive after a hunting accident in Weymouth, N.S., Sunday afternoon.

Digby RCMP were called shortly after 2:30 p.m. to Digby General Hospital after a man showed up with a gunshot wound. The man, who is from Digby County, was shot while rabbit hunting near Fort Point Road with two other men, police said in a news release.

The three men were out hunting when one of them got separated from the others. Police said one of the men shot at what he thought was a rabbit and injured the 20-year-old.
 
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