BLAZE ORANGE.

[BIGINNER]

THEY SHOULD REQUIRE BOTH HUNTERS AND NON HUNTERS TO WEAR BULLETPROOF VESTS!!    THEN WE WON'T HAVE TO LOOK PAST OUR TARGET,.. ALL GOOD.....
HUNTS WILL BE ALOT QUICKER!! 

[steen]

Wear the required orange or don't hunt, risk getting a ticket or worse yet...shot!  I guess I don't understand people who don't want to wear the orange.  The only time I don't like to is when cars going by can see you walking out and like to honk or yell things like that.  I wear it for my safety,  make sure my kids do for their safety, and to set a good example.  I'm hunter safety instructor so if I didn't I shouldn't be teaching it.  I wouldn't want my kids to hunt with someone that doesn't either.

[rudedawg1085]

I doubt you'd get cited for that. You've got the orange, just maybe a little less than required by law. Kind of like driving 60 in a 55 zone.

Don't take my word for it though, as I have almost zero experience with game wardens. I just never see them in the woods.

haaaaaaaa, i got popped going 30 in a 25 Tuesday, i better orange blaze it up knowing my luck

[grundy53]

I don't get it. Who planted the idea in peoples heads that there are hunters out there firing at anything that moves? It may happen once a year in the whole country but you are a hundred times more likely to die in a car wreck on the way to your hunting spot than getting shot by a guy shooting willy nilly at everything. There are probably ten thousand things you are more likely to die from.
 I wear the required orange but only because it is the law. No other reason.

 

[grundy53]

I like Idaho...

[Curly]

Here is a link showing orange requirements for all the states and provinces in Canada:
http://ihea-usa.org/hunting-and-shooting/requirements/hunter-orange-requirements

A lot of states just say that orange is recommended.

CO seems excessive with their law.  500 sq in is required and camo blaze orange is NOT allowed.

I am shocked to see that in CA, orange is only recommended.    I like it, but I am shocked that CA would be like that............

[RAZORBILL]

California politicians probably just hope that the gun toting, animal killers shoot each other.

[bobcat]

I wonder if the camo orange really is legal here?

If a vest measures out to 400 square inches, but only half of the vest is actually orange, that's only 200 square inches.

So how many people think they are following the law but really are not?

[Curly]

Say a vest is 18" tall x 12" wide.  That is 216 sq in for the front and the same for the back...........for a total over 400 sq in.  So, you're right, if someone is only wearing a blaze orange camo vest, then they might have only about half the required orange.  Now, if you wear a full camo orange coat and a blaze hat, you're probably at 400.

[turkeyfeather]

I asked about the camo blaze vest when the gamie came into my sons hunters ed class a couple years ago. He said the camo vests are fine for adults but wouldn't recommend them for kids.

[bobcat]

Well they either meet the 400 square inches of orange or they don't. Regardless of one game warden's opinion, if the actual amount of orange color on a vest is not 400 inches, it doesn't meet the legal requirement.

[Alchase]

I have had deer walk right past me, within a couple feet while wearing blue jeans and a solid white t-shirt, smoking a cigarette, 5 feet past me they stamp, snort, and take off. Why? Because they smelled me. I have had deer walk within feet of me wearing blaze orange, sniff at me while staring right at me, not smell me because of wind direction and casually walk off. I had a doe walk right up to the mouth of my tent while I was inside laying out my sleeping bag, making a racket and moving around.
I have also had deer bust me from 1/2 a mile away and freeze up like I was a cougar ready to pounce.
Their sight is keyed to movement. You freeze there is a good chance they will not figure you out. As long as they do not smell you.
Deer rely on smell the vast majority of the time, especially if the object of their scrutiny is not moving.  You move, your busted. They smell you your busted.

As for blaze orange here is a good explanation:

Rods are photoreceptors that help in low-light conditions. Cones are photoreceptors that enable color vision and distinguish fine details.

“With substantially fewer cones in their retina compared to humans, everything would appear ‘grainy’ to the deer, like a photograph taken with very high speed film. In the area of the horizontal visual streak centered on the hunter’s face, the deer’s acuity is somewhat enhanced and they gain more detail. Deer would not perceive the longer wavelengths of color, so the oranges and reds have turned to brown or gray. This photograph was taken just before sunset when UV rays are at their peak. To the deer’s visual system, the short wavelength blues are enhanced and are visible on the right side of the trees in the direction of the setting sun. The hunter is wearing a new, unwashed pair of camouflage pants. Also visible to the deer are the UV enhancers glowing from these pants.”

“The human lens and central portion of the retina have yellow pigmentation to absorb and filter out UV light from the sun, which also filters some blues and violets. The lens of deer is perfectly clear, and they lack yellow pigmentation in their retina. Deer, being short-lived as compared to humans, do not need such protection from the sun. The absence of these filters allows them to capitalize on the additional light available from the shorter wavelengths of light. Coincidentally, these colors of light are most abundant when the sun is below the horizon at dawn and dusk when the deer’s ultra-sensitive rods are functioning. This gives them a distinct advantage when they’re moving to and from their bedding areas at these times.”

If you do not want to wear a grey (to deer) solid color vest, take a black or brown magic marker and draw a few random lines on the vest. this will break up the grey blob, and still keep the required 400 inches.
I wear my orange vest, but also wear a pack. I have done this since the law was enacted, having many, many, encounters with LEOs of all types and not once has any of them ever even commented on my pack covering a portion of my orange. When packing a kill, antlers, etc... I would definitely place another orange vest on the back of my pack, just for safety reasons.
Honestly I do not worry about deer seeing my orange at all, I am more concerned that other hunters see mine.

[turkeyfeather]

Well they either meet the 400 square inches of orange or they don't. Regardless of one game warden's opinion, if the actual amount of orange color on a vest is not 400 inches, it doesn't meet the legal requirement.

Really, no kidding. Brilliant! 

[bobcat]

Well they either meet the 400 square inches of orange or they don't. Regardless of one game warden's opinion, if the actual amount of orange color on a vest is not 400 inches, it doesn't meet the legal requirement.

Really, no kidding. Brilliant! 

Don't need your sarcasm, the point I was trying to make is that most camo orange vests are not going to have 400 inches of orange. So if you wear one thinking you're legal....  well- you're not.

[turkeyfeather]

Well they either meet the 400 square inches of orange or they don't. Regardless of one game warden's opinion, if the actual amount of orange color on a vest is not 400 inches, it doesn't meet the legal requirement.

Really, no kidding. Brilliant! 

Don't need your sarcasm, the point I was trying to make is that most camo orange vests are not going to have 400 inches of orange. So if you wear one thinking you're legal....  well- you're not.

Well you can come measure mine all out so we know for sure.    Oh and forgot to mention I have been checked by a gamie a couple times over the years while wearing mine and it has never even come up.