how do you know if you've been scoped?
you might come across the guy during the day or something.... or maybe see him scoping you (in your binos)...
But there might be lots of times you were scoped and never knew.......
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how do you know if you've been scoped?
you might come across the guy during the day or something.... or maybe see him scoping you (in your binos)...
But there might be lots of times you were scoped and never knew.......
Actually they do see it.Although they don't see colors as we do,they do see contrast,and orange does contrast with many natural colors.It doesn't stand out to them like it does to us,but it doesn't blend in to them like camo does either.If you want to get an idea of what animals see,just look at some black and white pictures.
My hunting partner was glassing with his binoculars(while wearing orange),and he saw an idiot staring at him through his riflescope.He stood up and waved,and the idiot scoped him for several more seconds before putting his gun down.Of course my partner did not tell the rest of us until that night,because he knew that we would have dealt with the idiot.Had it been me that the idiot was scoping,I would have gone to my truck,driven down the roads to the trail that he had driven in on,and felled some trees across the trail.He would have had a good deal of work to get home that night.
As long as your hunting garb is of a noise-less material then it could be colored cobalt blue with uranium yellow polka dots. I could give a jot really - it's not like you're running into a steady diet of fashion police out on the trail. If they say optic/hunter/blaze orange saves a 'misunderstanding' every now & then - it's good enough for me.
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I'll also wear orange if I'm walking/upland hunting with other. orange really sticks out and can prevent your buddy "Swinging-through" you as game flushes.
Personally i don't think orange doesn't help one bit if the guy doesn't make sure what he is shooting at. A friend of mine runs a D8 cat for a living, last year the cat he was running was shot on 5 different occassions and they are bright yellow. People who don't have a brain should be
Here in NL there are no legal requirements to wear orange..
But I think an orange vest adds to safety. There are too many people here (especially at the beginning and end of seasons) that will shoot at anything they see, without positively identifying the target.
Just today I counted more than 5 high powered rifle shots in rapid succession, as if fired from a semi automatic rifle.(or rifles)
I do not want to know what was in front of that gun..
But I think an orange vest adds to safety. There are too many people here (especially at the beginning and end of seasons) that will shoot at anything they see, without positively identifying the target.
Just today I counted more than 5 high powered rifle shots in rapid succession, as if fired from a semi automatic rifle.(or rifles)
I do not want to know what was in front of that gun..
More feel good legislation from the ever fertile minds of brainless bureaucrats. I'd compare the safety record of B.C without any Blaze Orange requirements to any other jurisdictions with that requirement. If you need to see blaze orange to keep from shooting at something, you shouldn't be in the bush!!!!
I don't know what it's like all across Canada but, where I am, hunting has a reputation as a bit of a party sport. Couple that with the fact that the eyes sometimes don't work as good in the lower light conditions of the more denser forested regions - especially within the twilight hours. With that in mind accidents can & certainly do happen - but a valid optic orange vest & hat still stands out strikingly in the most adverse of light conditions & if somebody does eventually bag me - they better have a darn good excuse or their nikes on.
I grew up in NB where there seems to be a disturbing rate of people shooting people who they know are in the bush with them, as opposed to strangers shooting strangers. There I wear Orange but I am none too happy about giving some idiot a better target.
In BC It never occurred to me that I should worry about getting shot. 3-4 months of hunting season and a hunting population who spend more time in the bush and are generally a little less paniced about "getting THIER deer" or killing a moose in a 72 hour window seems to take the edge off. Being able to shoot in the bush here 365 days a year probabley also helps to create a more practiced and methodical class of hunter.
Making a single identifying characteristic (orange) replace careful target assesment is a stupid idea. Human= orange is a mindset that probabley has resulted in many deaths after dusk has removed color from our perception.
In BC It never occurred to me that I should worry about getting shot. 3-4 months of hunting season and a hunting population who spend more time in the bush and are generally a little less paniced about "getting THIER deer" or killing a moose in a 72 hour window seems to take the edge off. Being able to shoot in the bush here 365 days a year probabley also helps to create a more practiced and methodical class of hunter.
Making a single identifying characteristic (orange) replace careful target assesment is a stupid idea. Human= orange is a mindset that probabley has resulted in many deaths after dusk has removed color from our perception.
Yet the number of accidental shootings did not skyrocket in Alberta when the hunter orange requirement was done away with.
Accidental shootings are much rarer in western Canada than in most other locations.I guess that we have more game animals for less hunters,and as a result,hunters aren't as anxious to shoot at noise or movement as they are elsewhere.
And trees are 15 feet apart from each other vs. the jungles of bush out east where sometimes a man can't even pass through if he wanted to.
hardly- the thick brush in the rockies can take hours to pick your way through , even on horseback- that's why we get vanishing elk, and bears that pop up out of nowhere- by the time you get into position for a clear shot, they're gone-
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I hate wearing it.
exactly why me and my hunting partner opted for the upland vest with orange patches on them instead of all tan, keeps from getting an accidental load of high brass #4's to the back
They should develope a Wii or Xbox like interactive game for testing hunters in various light, forest density & visibility situations. They could have all kinds of sensors & interesting animal & human graphics to test the hunter's judgement & reaction skills . I bet some of the results would be shocking.
I wear an orange vest even while walking the dogs, and my 4 dogs all wear their vests too. A couple of years ago I heard on the news about a hunter shooting a dog that was on a walk with a woman and her child. He said he thought it was a wolf. I'd rather be safe.
Now , i'm going to throw in a new variable . I wear my orange all the time , i don't have a problem with it. that said , here's your new variable .........Camo'd ground blinds ! I have 2 chair blinds , the double and single, i have the doghouse blind , and another great big ameristep thing , i think they call it the predator. anyway , they are ALL camo!!! so much for your blaze orange when you're sitting in there all nice and snug. what do you do ? I don't think this is a hijack, if you think it is , my apologies, i think it is relevant.
Obviously the words of someone that hasn't hunted much out west.
it took me 4hrs to go 2kms in such brush yesterday, what a nightmare. been all over southern ontario, and saw lots of thick nasty stuff, but never anything as thick as the lower elevations of a mountain side avalanche chute.
