HUNTER ORANGE

[saylean]

I would wear it, as i would feel safer from the idots...BUT...I hate wearing it at times...say...at Elbow Cooley when breakfast starts to do a number on ya...

Trying to find a spot to crap while wearing bright orange is sage brush is humorous. I think if someone scopes me then...they will get more than they bargained for!

[huntingnut]

Public land I would wear always. To many people out there hunting modern that don't know what they are doing. Private land I wouldn't if I didn't have to.

[Dman]

Public land I would wear always. To many people out there hunting modern that don't know what they are doing. Private land I wouldn't if I didn't have to.

 I've seen just as many idiots outside the modern season. One time I was walking a primary fisherman's road, a gravelled road to the Carbon River and a bowhunter drew on me like I might have been a deer. Total idiot, just because he heard sound he came to full draw. Duck hunting also, I've seen people shoot at thing's they shouldn't have been shooting at, me for one and also the wrong species of waterfowl.

[Red Dawg]

i like seeing the coasties is there 100% orange suite. I crack up every time i see them during elk season.

[PolarBear]

I hunt archery and far away from other people, so I don't have to deal with it.  I agree 100% that it should be mandatory during modern and even muzzleloader.  (open can of worms here)  The better the newer muzzleloaders get the more confidence folks have about shooting longer distances.  Some folks cant distinguish between a deer and a human at 200 yds, in the brush without a scope.  IMO, any season that is open to firearms capable of being accurate and deadly at 100+ yds should have a safety orange requirement.

[280ackley]

I hunt archery and far away from other people, so I don't have to deal with it.  I agree 100% that it should be mandatory during modern and even muzzleloader.  (open can of worms here)  The better the newer muzzleloaders get the more confidence folks have about shooting longer distances.  Some folks cant distinguish between a deer and a human at 200 yds, in the brush without a scope.  IMO, any season that is open to firearms capable of being accurate and deadly at 100+ yds should have a safety orange requirement.

I agree.

[ICEMAN]

  Oh yeah??? Well I think they should shorten archery season, move it to right after modern and muzzle, and make all you bowhunters wear pink jammies with frilly trim and bells on your shoes! 

[PolarBear]

I dont know about the pink jammies, but I would support a shorter archery season.  I know far too many "archers" who use the long seasons as an excuse to take pot shots at critters because if they botch a shot of lose and animal they still have a ton of time to make up for it.  These are also the guys who roadhunt for does and fawns with a beer in their lap. 
By the way, I usually hunt the late archery whitetail at the end of November-early December (after all you modern and muzzy guys have them scattered) and still do better than most.   

[Red Dawg]

  nicely done iceman

[Dman]

 On the other thread it was suggested hunter's have the option of: blaze hot pink, blaze lime green and blaze yellow. I'll stick with Orange 

 I do agree muzzlechoader's have gone from lethal out to around 100 yards 20 years ago to lethal out to 200 yards now, no question they've advanced.

[M_ray]

Dman just so you know that what you see on TV there is in the Midwest with jacketed ballistic tips that are not leagal here in WA. I really doubt anyone here is getting that kind of result with a full lead conical, in fact there was a thread about poor bullet flight & groups with 150 grains of powder and no one was talking about anything over 120 yards or so. I can reach out to about 130 and that's it. If someone is doing 200 without a jacketed ballistic tip they're probably BS-in you, and if not I'd like to see it! Don't confuse what you see on the hunting channel with Washington.

That being said I did wear it this year while hunting for my bull because I was in a unit with modern ... it doesn't bother me to wear it but given the choice I don't.

[Armadillo]

Its really great how hikers, berry pickers and mountain bikers who share the same ground at the same time of year are excluded from this dress code. Makes you wonder

[Dman]

 point taken, but I wasn't referring just to Washington hunter's, a lot of us hunt out of State. I've seen Shockey and that whole TC crowd lob lead to near 200, yes it's TV, but I did also see a home video of a guy in the Okanogan that shot a very long ways at a buck with a muzzleloader. If the temptation is there, someone's going to take that shot eventually, I'm sure it happens in Wa. too. No different than modfire guys taking shots over 500 yards who have good accuracy out to 300.

[M_ray]

If the temptation is there, someone's going to take that shot eventually, I'm sure it happens in Wa. too.

Yes that will allways be the case no matter what method is available and boils down to personal ethics and I guess the point of this thread is if you don't trust the ethics of the guy's hunting with your chioce of weapon ... are you wearing orange?

[M_ray]

The better the newer muzzleloaders get the more confidence folks have about shooting longer distances.  Some folks cant distinguish between a deer and a human at 200 yds, in the brush without a scope.

Sorry this may be a bit off topic but...
Polarbear It's not just newer muzzleloaders giving idiots the confidence to shoot longer than they should.  But there are also just as many archers that can't tell the difference between a doe, fawn  or a human at 50 yards and take far too long of shots for their ability so according to your reasoning for muzzloading doesn't this mean your argument should apply to Archery as well? and that they should also be REQUIRED to wear orange? You acually agree to this at one point

I know far too many "archers" who use the long seasons as an excuse to take pot shots at critters because if they botch a shot of lose and animal they still have a ton of time to make up for it.  These are also the guys who roadhunt for does and fawns with a beer in their lap. 

So I am confused by the Elitest Archer attitute and the downer on Muzzleloading.
Tha Muzzleloading seasons have been shortened to almost nil and over the last 10 years there are 1/2 the amount of open units  so I'm not really sure how muzzy's are scattering them about and all of the sudden we also have the worst ethics now too! Please enlighten me if I am not reading you right I'm not trying to start a pissin match.

 I have hunted all methods and in many states and I personally see more risk's and less ethics in the modern than in the primitive weapon seasons and in case you are confused Muzzleoading is still a primative method with limited range. So again this thread is about weather or not you would wear orange not to bash one method and all it's users.

I think you will find that the largest majority of muzzloader guy's still prefer the close encounter with the game and choose that method for those reasons rather than trying to lob lead at 200 yards.