How much orange?

[walt]

I have one from gamehide and can't complain. 

[uncoolperson]

a boonie cap would probably be 400 inches

(4*12*pi + 10*10*pi [the top plus the rim is one big circle])

a baseball cap, probably not
4*pi*6*6*.5+rim
(the sphere surface area equation is 4*pi*radius ^2)

add a piece of cloth to the back (like those caps with the sun shade piece of cloth on the back), and you might hit 400.
(get some blaze orange fabric from a fabric store and sew it on)

Although, is it 400 sq inches visible from any one point, or cumulative?

though I'm still all for vests, smoke signals, flashers, flags and everything else, almost got nailed last year, and my hunting buddies dad got a nice welt from someone not seeing him beyond a pheasant.

[Curly]

a boonie cap would probably be 400 inches

(4*12*pi + 10*10*pi [the top plus the rim is one big circle])

a baseball cap, probably not
4*pi*6*6*.5+rim
(the sphere surface area equation is 4*pi*radius ^2)

add a piece of cloth to the back (like those caps with the sun shade piece of cloth on the back), and you might hit 400.
(get some blaze orange fabric from a fabric store and sew it on)

Although, is it 400 sq inches visible from any one point, or cumulative?

though I'm still all for vests, smoke signals, flashers, flags and everything else, almost got nailed last year, and my hunting buddies dad got a nice welt from someone not seeing him beyond a pheasant.

I'm not following your math there uncool........

The area of a circle is the diameter squared times pi then divide by 4.  I figured a baseball cap style to have about 75 sq in.

[uncoolperson]

a baseball hat is more a sphere than a circle

and for the boonie cap styled hat I was using pi * radius square as my area equation.

the area of the rim would be the area of a circle with the same diameter minus the cutout in the middle, which would be later added because the cutout in the middle is the size of the piece on the top, then add in the walls of the hat.


For all my rough calcs I was using 6 as radius for the part over the head, and for the rim on the boonie cap 10 inches and 4 inches high, looking at it now those were bad numbers to put in. But at 11:30 it seemed like a good est.

[Buckmark]

Get something like the cabelas upland mesh vest, orange all the way around and a bright orange cap. get the vest 1 size bigger than you need, pin it to make it fit better with a t-shirt for early season then you can un pin it for over a jacket in the late season. It is always a good idea to make sure you can be seen by everyone in your party, never understood just meeting the minimum requirement as being very safe.

[bobcat]

I feel safe with just an orange hat, since that is up as high as possible where it can be seen best over brush/grass. But, of course, just a hat won't make the 400 square inch minimum. My vest only has orange on the shoulders, so even with that and the hat I'm not sure if I'm legal. But it's a good vest and I'm not going to spend any money on another one that has more orange when I don't feel it's needed. Never have had any game warden say anything to me about not enough orange, but then I also don't hunt in areas that are very popular and therefore don't often see any law enforcement.

[Pat/Rick]

 I wear as little as possible, i.e. the minimum. 400 sq. inches is what, 10x40. Thats what I base it on. It doesn't take much to be legal. I would just as soon not wear it, but if you hunt the "wind up pheasant" sites its best to wear it. Mandatory or not.

[madmack76]

whats it matter the critters cant see it any ways just a uv clothes wash and everythings fine better safe than sorry scents more important than sight just stay out of the wind and wear the brightest clothes possible wont matter

[chrisb]

sportsmansguide.com has 2 solid orange upland vests on sale for $20... for both...I know I know you get what you pay for but for a first timer this may be the way to go.

[Armadillo]

Do you need orange for doves? probably a silly question but my dad and uncle said you dont and the regs are not loading on my computer

[Buckmark]

No you do not, they are considered a migratory bird and not upland..
ps: dont wear a white t-shrt either (had a guy do that)
ps: dont wear mirrored sun glasses, or colored (on the outside lense) sun glasses either. they can see that and flair away..

[Armadillo]

Thanks for the tip on the sunglasses, I figured any white colored shirt would be a dead giveaway the first time I hunted doves, I mainly have stuck to desert BDU's and they haven't seemed to make me stick out a whole lot

[arintime]

Doves, no you don't have to wear orange. I don't believe until until big game season do you have to wear any. When I asked my buddy if I had to wear hunters orange to hunt dove, he said "If you do, I am hunting so far away I won't be able to see you if I had binoculars!" I think it is only during rifle season you need orange.

[arifleman]

["I wear orange on opening day of grouse season while hunting up on S. Cle Elum Ridge primarily because for the past 3-4 years, maybe longer, there has been a certain group of folks up there shooting at everything that moves, it seems."]

Dave, no kidding!  I have seen the same lousy bunch over behind Peoh Point on Osborne loop - they stay in radio contact, spaced apart, constantly driving the road.  I counted 14 vehicles once when they all pulled in together to pow wow.  Sure has changed the complexion of that forest (dead)!  I give up.  I can't (and will not) compete with that. 

You will know when they move into your hunting grounds folks!

[Armadillo]

  wow, gives us all a bad rubber stamp on our foreheads