HUNTER ORANGE

[Red Dawg]

i dont get why everyone has a complex about this.

[billythekidrock]

i dont get why everyone has a complex about this.

About wearing orange?

I know for me if I am in camo the guy across the canyon or up on the road does not see me and therefore does not have the chance to "scope me". I know that if I am wearing orange most yahoos will stop to bino or scope if they see another hunter. I don't like being scoped.

[boneaddict]

sometimes when someone sees you, they try to footrace you and ruin your whole damn hunt too.  No ethics amongst idiots I guess.

[Skyvalhunter]

I don't like being "scoped" either but I intern don't like someone shooting a deer I am stalking right near me because they can't see me. So it's situation dependent

[archery288]

I agree, hence the reason I started archery hunting! no requirement to wear orange, and a lot less people out in the woods.  Although, I did read an article about a guy who got shot by another archer because he seen "movement" and thought it was an animal.  I guess there are idiots out there either way and you can just never be to safe.  But, I am much happier without the orange and as stated above so people can't see you and where your going!

[ICEMAN]

This is a great point too. As we all hunt in more crowded circumstances, i have seen many times when some dipstick watches me to see where I am headed, and then they move out in front, and let me drive game to them. All due to orange. I also do not like someone knowing where I am in relationship to my vehicle. If I can be seen a quarter mile away in orange, heck, go ahead and break into my truck. If I am in camo, beware.

[boneaddict]

I was at full draw on a guy when he came out of the woods at about 20 feet.  He was making so damned much noise, I thought he was a feeding bear coming.  I imeediately veered away, and even with the movement, he walked right by me and I was standing there. 

[Skyvalhunter]

Ok how many of you dressed in camo have just sat and watched a fellow hunter walk right by you? I know I have done this on occasion. Even have done the elk call in another hunter like I know alot of you have just to stop calling and watch the guy go by. Once I was on the uphill side of this tree and this guy was comming up the hill. When he got to the tree I said "hows it going"? I thought he was going to piss himself.

[Armadillo]

Never had a guy come really close but maybe 50 yards downhill a couple times. Ive seen quite a few navy seal dressed guys who wear the wrong camo in the eastern wa scrub and are as easy to pick out as blaze orange.

[archery288]

I had on one occasion my buddy John and I were calling and my dad was about 50 yards infront of us and this guy came sneeking up behind us and I spotted him.. we split up quickly about 15 yards apart and cow called softly and the guy came up right next to the tree i was on the other side of, and I signaled to John and he bugled and the guy got all nervous and was looking franticly for the bull, and I reached out and touched the guy and he fell to his knees and about *censored* all over!! it was actually pretty funny and the guy laughed about it after he realized what was going on!

[Slider]

After being SHOT AT (pre HO days) during General Elk season, I wouldn't be caught DEAD without it!!! 

[Dman]

 One important point, the State requires you to have a vision test everytime you renew your driver's license and to have reasonable good vision, not so with a hunting license. There are some folk's out there with pretty poor eyesight in the woods.

[BlackTail]

Iceman, if I'm a quarter mile (400 yards) from my truck and someone thinks they're safe breaking into it, they're going to find out very quickly that is well within my range.  (But I understand what you're saying if the distances were longer)

I see a lot of comments about how wearing blaze orange can ruin your hunt, or someone sees where you're going and beats you to your spot or maybe they know where you're at and that gets your truck broken into.  All those things would make for a bad day, but I wear blaze orange so I don't get SHOT.  Now there are a couple examples here where people were wearing blaze orange and still ended up in a dangerous situation, but by in large you are much safer wearing it.  Maybe full camo would keep you hidden from the handful of dip*censored*s out there, but I would much rather be visable to the hundreds of safe hunters that are out there as well.


Just my $.02

[Curly]

One important point, the State requires you to have a vision test everytime you renew your driver's license and to have reasonable good vision, not so with a hunting license. There are some folk's out there with pretty poor eyesight in the woods.

That is a good point, Dman.

One time, I was out during deer season and an older guy had stopped to have me help show him where to punch his tag if he was lucky enough to shoot a buck.  He could not see the numbers on the tag.  He said he forgot his glasses.  I was thinking that he meant reading glasses and that he could see good enough at distances; but then he didn't see the buck in back of my truck and the fresh blood on my hands until after he had been talking to me for about 10 minutes.

Made me a little nervous to think that this old guy was out there driving around in the woods looking for deer to shoot at.

[Dman]

 I hear ya, I wear contacts, but even I know that I would have no business huntng without them, I have a fairly strong correction, but can see 20/20 with lenses. I don't totally feel comfortable hunting with glasses because of the reduced peripheral and keeping them clean.