Oregon hunters oppose bright orange safety clothing

[Hangfire]

I don't like having to wear hunter orange but, IT SAVES LIVES. It seems like every year I hear of some one shot in Idaho that would probably not been shot if wearing orange.

Increased hunting accidents, by not requiring hunter orange, would mean more upset non-hunters and more loss of hunting opportunity. Remember Washington is the smallest western state with only California having more total people in the western states, that means more non-hunters.

[Bob33]

If you got shot once you probably wouldn't think twice about wearing it.

Probably wouldn't think about much at all...

[bobcat]

I just wish they didn't have the 400 square inch minimum requirement. I think a bright orange hat should be good enough but a hat by itself isn't 400 square inches.

[grundy53]

i feel the state should tell you what to do. if you feel its safer to wear orange then wear orange. you shouldn't have to be told. we are not 3 years old. i can dress myself.

[Little Dave]

Well, some places in Oregon they just oppose clothing in general.
Sherwin Williams might have the color, don't know.

The gal on Sauk Mountain was wearing blue.  Why?  She was not a hunter.
Even if she was, it was bear season.

Did she have the choice to wear orange?  Sure.
Could the situation be prevented if the shooter was wearing orange?  No.

Leave it a choice for personal safety.
I can't stand the angry mother "there should be a law" people.  They won't stop until we are all padded with bubble wrap drinking public tap water out of recycled metal cans.

[Armadillo]

I find that I get "scoped" at more while I wear hunter orange 

[Special T]

I have a buddythat was using binos to glass a clear cut and this ass hat scoped him.. he(my buddy) put his hands up like what are you doing? he was still being scoped.... He then picked up his gone and scoped the original offender, and he got the idea pretty quick and left.  Some times you just have to spell it out for stupid people.

[C-Money]

I wear an orange hat when big game hunting in Oregon. Its just common sence.

[Machias]

I wear an orange vest and I have orange on my backpack...I want to help the morons out there as much as possible.  Every single year you hear about someone in Idaho being shot while wearing their brown carhartts during elk season.  To me those guys are almost as much a moron as the guy who shot them...not as much but almost!   

[rasbo]

one yr in the papers in Idaho there was an article... ranchers beef was shot,there was a cartoon in the paper where the guy painted the word cow on all his cattle..This is true the next week another rancher lost a beef to a hunter..The paper put out another cartoon,this time he painted the word deer on his cattle...No more reports of cattle being shot

[Machias]

 

[runamuk]

I wear an orange vest and I have orange on my backpack...I want to help the morons out there as much as possible.  Every single year you hear about someone in Idaho being shot while wearing their brown carhartts during elk season.  To me those guys are almost as much a moron as the guy who shot them...not as much but almost!   

this is simply culling the weak from the herd

[Coasthunterjay]

ok so i have been thinking about it for a while...I also have been scoped several times, my father, and bro have...friends have also....i cant stop some moron from pointing there rifle at me....but agree that being on the safer side and wearing orange is a very good thing. Yah some guy might be scoping me which ide really rather not happen, but hopefully since he sees me wearing my big pumpkin suit he wont have his finger on the trigger...Were if im not wearing camo and some over zelious hunter decideds to see whats coming out off the bush and sees me as a potential target does have his finger on the trigger...NOT OK....Orange saves, and in my book ill wear it when i dont have to in the bush....and i do.

but some notes to think about for those who have issues with all this......
Deer are colorblind....So they dont know your wearing orange....
I might be wrong but the idea of wearing camo is so that it breaks up your body pattern against whats behind or around you...so you blend in....the different patterns for different outdoor situations, seasons, etc...blah, blah, blah.

Soooooo wearing orange with a break up pattern could solve the issue for those that wear orange and dont want to. And you can think of this as saving your life and still giving yourself and advantage against most the people out there that just wear a big pumpkin suit and stick out....I dont know though...my opinion i guess...but ill recommend to anyone to be smart and wear there orange.

[bobcat]

I still wonder.... why can't I wear pink?   

[Coasthunterjay]

I still wonder.... why can't I wear pink?   

lol...boxers.........