Hunter orange
- Thread starter asphalt599
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- Houston, TX
There may be a small difference between number of people accidentally shot by hunters and people saved by seatbelts in car accidents. Or maybe NOT.
I guess they don't call it Bantario for nothing.
I guess they don't call it Bantario for nothing.
PERSONALLY, I can't really see the benifits of a pair of bino's when the furthest you can see is maybe 75yds
& there lies the diff between western & a lot of eastern hunting!
How do you drive if you can only see that far.....?
ninepointer
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- Central Ontario
I want to thank Westicle, Toomanyhobbies and Art.h for opening up my eyes to the Great North American Safety Vest Conspiracy. How could I have been so daft to not see what was happening right before my very eyes! First it started many years ago with highway crews, then it spread to utility workers, crossing guards, surveyors and hunters. Now I'm starting to see that some cops are in on it. They've even got some motorcyclists convinced that they should wear brightly coloured vests! Why didn't we wake up to this conpiracy when The Government made us wear motorcycle helmets and car seatbelts. The Government is up to something, man!!!! We've got to rally now to stand up for our rights!
Ninepointer
P.S. I've heard that all blaze orange hunting vests manufactured since 2005 have been secretly implanted with a GPS tracking device
. How could I have been so daft to not see what was happening right before my very eyes! First it started many years ago with highway crews, then it spread to utility workers, crossing guards, surveyors and hunters. Now I'm starting to see that some cops are in on it. They've even got some motorcyclists convinced that they should wear brightly coloured vests! Why didn't we wake up to this conpiracy when The Government made us wear motorcycle helmets and car seatbelts. The Government is up to something, man!!!! We've got to rally now to stand up for our rights! Ninepointer
P.S. I've heard that all blaze orange hunting vests manufactured since 2005 have been secretly implanted with a GPS tracking device
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Chemainus B.C.
To the guy that comented on yellow.
Bright yellow is one of the most common colors of maple leaves in the fall & would blend in perfectly![/QUOTE][/B]senior
You could well be right. I was merely pointing out that while cycling on the highway the first colour I usually spot on other riders or joggers is bright yellow.
In addition, as/the example I made mention of concerning my pool playing buddy, a common aspect of being colour blind, is not being able to distinguish between red, brown & green and shades thereof.
While yellow is one of the dominant colours of autumn, so are the reds and shades of orange.
Last but not least high viz apparel you see today, like the stuff supplied to my crew, has bright X's front and back with two main qualities. One is the reflective properties for low light situations and the other for the more daylight hours, the X's are bright yellow.
Bright yellow is one of the most common colors of maple leaves in the fall & would blend in perfectly![/QUOTE][/B]senior
You could well be right. I was merely pointing out that while cycling on the highway the first colour I usually spot on other riders or joggers is bright yellow.
In addition, as/the example I made mention of concerning my pool playing buddy, a common aspect of being colour blind, is not being able to distinguish between red, brown & green and shades thereof.
While yellow is one of the dominant colours of autumn, so are the reds and shades of orange.
Last but not least high viz apparel you see today, like the stuff supplied to my crew, has bright X's front and back with two main qualities. One is the reflective properties for low light situations and the other for the more daylight hours, the X's are bright yellow.
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- Houston, TX
And so you did - sorry if it sounded like I was bashing you. I am pretty down on all the stupid bloody rules some people they think they need these days. How did we ever get into this mess, Ollie?
The topic of Blaze Orange came up a few years ago in BC, and the general consensus was that there were very few accidents to begin with, and there wasn't really that much proof that Blaze really reduced accidents.
BC has some of the most thickly forested areas in all of North America. All along the coastal regions, as well as in many areas that have been logged and regrown in the interior, there is thick cover.
Do you guys in the "Blaze" provinces just see movement and start shooting if you don't see orange? Or do you ID the target first?
It's funny- There are plenty of other recreationalists in the forest. Only hutners have to wear orange!!
BC has some of the most thickly forested areas in all of North America. All along the coastal regions, as well as in many areas that have been logged and regrown in the interior, there is thick cover.
Do you guys in the "Blaze" provinces just see movement and start shooting if you don't see orange? Or do you ID the target first?
It's funny- There are plenty of other recreationalists in the forest. Only hutners have to wear orange!!
Agreed Gate,
But we are the only ones carrying guns.
I've met a few retards in the bush and I would be some mad at mysef if I was shot buy another hunter and I wasn't wearing a high vis jacket / vest.
I wear yellow or orange hunting moose on cut lines and deer in fields.
One carless hunter is enough to warrant high vis cloths and we all know theres more than one.
That said, legislated? Nope, don't like that idea. Personal choice is the only way to go.
Gatehouse has a very valid point.
People that get used to wearing orange and seeing others wearing orange, tend to believe that everything else that moves and it's not orange is a target.
I'm coming from orange country and believe you me, I'm happy to leave that vest in the closet.
I found out that the orange vest is useful in two situations (while big game hunting) : one is when setting up decoys -which by the way have clearly marked "do not use during gun season, do not use as a blind....etc - and the second one has to be the ease with which you can spot other hunters in the area.
The last one is pure convenience. It happened to me -and not only once- to hunt a valley and notice an orange dot that has an upper hand in positioning on that very valley..... so I took my business elsewhere.
Other than that..... many times what we read about "hunting accidents" are reported as such and nobody ever clears the slate...... Police later finds out that one of the guys was banging the other's wife and at that point it is very clear that accident it was not, but we're stuck with them.
Now if were to really talk about hunting safety, a proficiency exam at the range or a medical exam to prove that we can tell a moose apart from a ridden horse..... now we struck the problem in the middle.
And still on the subject.... hunting is still one of the safest activities , when compared to swimmin or just riding a bike.
People that get used to wearing orange and seeing others wearing orange, tend to believe that everything else that moves and it's not orange is a target.
I'm coming from orange country and believe you me, I'm happy to leave that vest in the closet.
I found out that the orange vest is useful in two situations (while big game hunting) : one is when setting up decoys -which by the way have clearly marked "do not use during gun season, do not use as a blind....etc - and the second one has to be the ease with which you can spot other hunters in the area.
The last one is pure convenience. It happened to me -and not only once- to hunt a valley and notice an orange dot that has an upper hand in positioning on that very valley..... so I took my business elsewhere.
Other than that..... many times what we read about "hunting accidents" are reported as such and nobody ever clears the slate...... Police later finds out that one of the guys was banging the other's wife and at that point it is very clear that accident it was not, but we're stuck with them.
Now if were to really talk about hunting safety, a proficiency exam at the range or a medical exam to prove that we can tell a moose apart from a ridden horse..... now we struck the problem in the middle.
And still on the subject.... hunting is still one of the safest activities , when compared to swimmin or just riding a bike.
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- WMU248 near Edmonton
I wear clothing suitable to the season, if its cold I wear warm clothing, if it's raining I wear a raincoat. Colour is not important, and orange is not going to help you from being shot by some idiot who is going to blast away at sound, or try to drive game into a line of waiting hunters by shooting into the bushes.
what ever happened to knowing what your target is before you shoot, snd what do you do with all the wounded game or game of the wrond species or ### that you have shot because you didn't identify it before shooting.
I am thankfull I liveing a province that I still have some choice.
what ever happened to knowing what your target is before you shoot, snd what do you do with all the wounded game or game of the wrond species or ### that you have shot because you didn't identify it before shooting.
I am thankfull I liveing a province that I still have some choice.
or sleeping with your hunting partners wife
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Makes it easy to watch your partners push bush too. The problem I see with the orange zone is that if you are used to having everyone look like a day-glow tenis ball, you may be more prone to make a mistake, or be less dilligent in a non-orange zone. So, from that prespective, I believe it may decrease safety of other.
I've had to stand up, in my orange fur suit, and WAVE MY ARMS at a moron that was shooting a deer between us. That day I was happy to be in blaze orange, but it souldn't be necessary.
PERSONALLY, I can't really see the benifits of a pair of bino's when the furthest you can see is maybe 75yds
& there lies the diff between western & a lot of eastern hunting!
Blaze orange in my opinion should not be mandatory but a pair of binoculars should be. Unless it is a no brainer the binos always go up before the rifle.
I hunt some very thick bush where 75 yards is a long shot and binos are a must in my books. The binos help pick out parts of an animal. A branch of a tree turned out to be an antler many times and the only way I knew this was because I had binoculars. Hell, most of my animals have been shot at an average of fifty yards. My son has a friend he got into hunting and told him I would not take him out with us if he didn't have a pair of binoculars.
Here's a thought, "Who cares what you wear?" . The deer I've shot certainly didn't give a shjt that I had an orange vest on. The fact is its the law here, and I wear it and never gave it any thought until this thread. Just because we wear orange means we just shoot blindly into the bush? Now there's an intelligent statement.
How about, "All westerners wear camo, so they can hide better when they're poaching."
. The deer I've shot certainly didn't give a shjt that I had an orange vest on. The fact is its the law here, and I wear it and never gave it any thought until this thread. Just because we wear orange means we just shoot blindly into the bush? Now there's an intelligent statement. How about, "All westerners wear camo, so they can hide better when they're poaching."
Here's a thought, "Who cares what you wear?"
How about, "All westerners wear camo, so they can hide better when they're poaching."
maybe,,,, but you forget one thing. I hunted in Ontario for a few years and I never liked the orange vest we had to wear.
Nobody accused YOU of shooting blindly in the bush just because you wear blaze .... just as you wouldn't find a poacher wearing one, West or East.... Your assumption is just
What Walksalot said should be implemented.... mandatory binoculars.
there is one advantage to the orange..ive noticed while driving the cuts to get to my pre picked out spots to moose hunt.. that i can spot the orange a few hundred yards sooner then i could a person..
if i see orange in a cut. i,ve just learned that someone gets up earlier then me.i back off and go to next area on my list
if i see orange in a cut. i,ve just learned that someone gets up earlier then me
.i back off and go to next area on my list
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While hunting coyotes in the white of winter a bird hunter we crossed paths with gave me sh?? heck because I was wearing all white and may be mistakenly shot for not being more visiable. When I was forced by the govenment to redo my PAL licence after carrying a side arm for years I understood why some people taking the course need to be tested before they could buy and carry a gun to hunt. If wearing a pink suit is safer and I am forced to wear one to hunt, I will wear it cause I want to hunt. Not all of us in the bush act the same way when it comes to safety because you still have some accidental shootings.
