Hunter Orange Necessary?

Looking at the locations where posted, it appears that in Eastern Canada, people feel that they need to wear orange to feel safe while hunting, while the people from Western Canada feel just as safe without orange. So is the East /West divide based on hunter densities, hunting methods, or hunter behavior in Western Canada and Eastern Canada? Whatever the reason, after reading this thread, I am thinking that I wouldn't feel as safe hunting in Eastern Canada, as I feel hunting in Western Canada.
 
3macs1 said:
Yep. Once you get shot at which happened to us one evening some years ago walking out on a pole line at dusk we have been since orange from head to toe .
Lucky the idiot was a poor shot and missed but I will never forget the sound of that bullet going through the alders about 4 feet in front of us
WHY would one not wear it. If you watch the wind doesn't matter what color you wear as far as most game goes. I don't hunt turkey so have no idea on those.
Cheers
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Deer dont see color anyhow. Id go with blaze camo if i coukd find it lol.
 
ronecol said:
Seems like "sask" in western Canada is not a very safe place to be hunting. :)
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Notice that he was wearing orange each time. Obviously wearing orange doesn't make him feel any safer. I grew up in Saskatchewan and have hunted there for over 30 years, and I never felt that I was in danger. Then again I never wore blaze orange while hunting in Saskatchewan.
 
remyltr said:
Since i moved to canada i had to wear the orange for hunting
And been shot at 3 times in 5 years.

I hunted in cammo back in the UK and didnt get shot at once
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Ok 3 times in 5 years. I think you better take a real good look around the land that you are hunting on for NO TRESPASSING signs or other peoples Blinds
Three times and they missed all three just think about that
There is something more going on here and it has NOTHING to do with what you are wearing
Cheers
 
stubblejumper said:
Looking at the locations where posted, it appears that in Eastern Canada, people feel that they need to wear orange to feel safe while hunting, while the people from Western Canada feel just as safe without orange. So is the East /West divide based on hunter densities, hunting methods, or hunter behavior in Western Canada and Eastern Canada? Whatever the reason, after reading this thread, I am thinking that I wouldn't feel as safe hunting in Eastern Canada, as I feel hunting in Western Canada.
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All ready told you in an early post. I have hunted both provinces and it is night and day. Like I said never ran into another hunter in Alberta vs here when we had a good deer herd they were every where. It would be nothing on our own land to get to my tree stand and have to kick a guy out of it
As far as feeling not safe here I think you would be dead long ago just wearing camo
Another factor IMO which maybe totally wrong is the lack of game. In Alberta the place was crawling with deer and I didnot go a day without seeing some. Here some guys hunt hard everyday sun up to sun down for a month or more and see nothing. Thus I think that makes them a bit jumpy for lack of a better word if they think they may be seeing one
All that being said you guys have more accidents than we do if one can believe the news
Cheers
 
remyltr said:
Since i moved to canada i had to wear the orange for hunting
And been shot at 3 times in 5 years.

I hunted in cammo back in the UK and didnt get shot at once
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That's amazing because I've been hunting in Canada for over half a century, some of it on very intensively hunted public land and a lot of it before mandatory safety training, and I haven't been shot at once nor do I know anyone who was.

But I'm curious about what kind of hunting you were doing in the UK that involved the use of camo. Never heard of such a thing, what with driven shoots and tightly controlled deer stalking and all the rest of it. Such Brits I've hunted with get all red in the face when confronted with the sight of a pump shotgun or anything faintly military, kind of a mono culture over there. So what were you after exactly, and where in the uK?
 
Does any one here believe that wearing blaze orange is in any way a disadvantage to the hunter wearing it ( I'm talking about deer moose and elk hunting)

-- and if so could you please enlighten me as to what that / those disadvantage(s) is / are?
 
mrgoat said:
After reading many of the posts here I am really surprised at the arguments put forth against the use of blaze orange. To me the wearing of orange for hunters and road personal etc. is a no brainer. Yes it will not protect you from all the blind morons and sound shooters of the world, hopefully though the vast majority of them. Ones goal is to increase your chances of survival and stay out of the marble orchard, I firmly believe the wearing of blaze orange does increase your chances of survival.
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I don't think that anyone is saying that it is a bad thing, but rather that it isn't a panacea to ensure your or anyone else's safety. As long as there are dough holes that shoot at something that sounded like a deer and as long as there are dummies that hunt with dough holes like this, people will continue to be killed. This is the result of negligence. Wearing an orange vest and hat doesn't make you sound any different. Any shooter that does not take the time to properly identify their target and what lies beyond it should not be in the woods. Excitement is no excuse for sloppy gun handling.
 
yomomma said:
Just read a magazine where it stated orange is mandatory for woodcock. Who da thunk it.
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From an Ontario Out of Doors article.

In Ontario, the best woodcock hunting generally occurs against a backdrop of brilliant fall colours. For this reason, the importance of wearing a blaze-orange vest or jacket and a hat can’t be overstressed. It simply makes hunting safer for you and everyone in your party.

Also need a migratory bird license.
 
Where I hunt grouse the rare person I cross has some blaze orange on. Four wheeling guys, or someone else hunting... I have a blaze orange hat and vest and am always wearing at least one or both of them. It's not required bc its not deer season but why not? Grouse don't notice trust me. It's just idiotic to refuse to wear it, sorta like ppl who argue there is no point in seat belts or bicycle helmets.
 
I ware an orange vest at a minimum. Once the weather turns I'll wear an orange toque as well. I have been in the bush when someone was shot. The gentleman was not wearing orange, he was wearing a red and black checkered coat that blended in nicely with the bush. The person that shot him had shot a deer and the bulled traveled further downrange ans hit the other person. Had he been wearing orange he would have been seen. So I will not go into the bush with anyone not wearing orange. It just makes things safer
 
3macs1 said:
Ok 3 times in 5 years. I think you better take a real good look around the land that you are hunting on for NO TRESPASSING signs or other peoples Blinds
Three times and they missed all three just think about that
There is something more going on here and it has NOTHING to do with what you are wearing
Cheers
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It certainly sounds like someone was sending him a message.

The gentleman was not wearing orange, he was wearing a red and black checkered coat that blended in nicely with the bush. The person that shot him had shot a deer and the bulled traveled further downrange ans hit the other person. Had he been wearing orange he would have been seen. So I will not go into the bush with anyone not wearing orange. It just makes things safer
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By posting that the man shot a deer and the bullet struck another hunter, are you telling us that a bullet went through the deer and then struck the man, or did you mean to post that he claimed that he shot at a deer and the bullet struck the other hunter? As in the Ontario case, people that shot other people often claim that they shot at a deer, rather than admit that they mistook someone for a deer. And when they actually do see a deer, some people get so excited that they don't see anything else, regardless of the color, so if the man was actually shooting at a deer he may not have noticed orange downrange anyways. The two people in orange getting shot while riding a red atv proves how stupid some people can get when they are out hunting.
 
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Big Bad said:
Alberta isn't Ontario though- broadleaf trees and heavy brush here, dark, dark shadows everywhere, deer moving slowly in and out of treelines. But the point about the possibility of someone shooting if no orange is seen is food for thought for sure.
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ummm..... We have all this stuff here^^:slap:


I kind of like black, but I also tend to be in my truck a lot lol
 
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