HUNTER ORANGE

[Curly]

There is some debate about Hunter Orange over on another board right now.  Most the people on that forum live in a State where orange is not required.  They are discussing why HO is not required and such. 

I just had to quote this guy.  Reminded me of bobcat; especially the last sentence.

my final thoughts: if you pass a hunter orange law. every person that is in the field durring any season that the hunters are required to wear the hunter orange, must also be required to wear the hunter orange. if you want to pass laws for saftey, then it should be an all encompassing saftey issue. if hikers/mushroom pickers/loggers/surveyers/forest service workers/blm/state/grandmas are in the woods, they must also be included in any hunter orange law effecting residents of oregon and hunters. it is pointless to require only kids to wear seat belts, or only hunters to wear hunter orange. if you pass the law, it should cover every person, and the most important people that should be required to wear the hunter orange are the unaware general public, that are sharing the woods durring hunting seasons. here is what i'll be doing if this type of law is passed. i'll have a vest in my pocket, and anytime i'm in an area, where a law officer might see me i'll put it on, when i'm in the brush, back in the pocket it go's.

[billythekidrock]

C'mon, don't confuse bobcat with Baltz.  lol

[sisu]

I voted yes I'd wear it, but consider this. Not here in the west but east of the Mississippi. One of my childhood friends is a surveyor and during hunting season he hands out fluorescent pink to himself and his employees. Why you might ask? Because the hunter orange where he lives blends in with the fall colors and the pink stands out like a white pea in a black cat's butt.
I hunted with him last fall and he still complies with the state regulations but keeps a swath of pink on his and his son's hat. Let me tell ya, it stands out.

While on the subject of this color requirement consider this. Before I left Alaska a family group with a friend or two were hunting up around Peters Creek. One friend shot another friend for a moose of all things. Fatally I might add. If we were all careful hunters and only shot what we were 150% sure was a legal animal then the color requirement would not be a requirement. It's because of people making mistakes. We are human, not gods or goddesses.

[sisu]

Dam Miles I've done this but my pack is sort of orange so I hunted. I know if I'd of seen a warden and they were a hard butt I'd of gotten a ticket. Now when I get home I dry all stuff out and within 24 to 36 hours the pack is repacked and set to go with all materials in it for the next foray.

[Curly]

C'mon, don't confuse bobcat with Baltz.  lol

  I was just giving him a hard time......I wouldn't ever confuse the two.

[Jerbear]

Maybe Pope can help with this one.  Back in the late 70's or early 80's it ws ruled by a high court, not sure it wan't the Supreme court, that the states did not have the authority to tell you what to wear.  In that article, the Washington State Game Dept., stated that they would continue to enforce it, because of the safety factor.   I had the article for some time, but can't locate it.  But that was the ruling.  Myself, I would not be without it.  Too many *censored*s out there.

[PacificNWhunter]

If it wasn't the law I would not wear hunter orange. I don't think it necessarily keeps you safer as a hunter. I make sure I wear the proper amount of orange everytime I am out and about during the general season, but it has not stopped people from scoping me out and once sending a bullet my way "at a deer". I have found success for blacktails hunting little pockets between high traffic areas and noticed numerous time people seeing me in orange entering the woods and then to return later to hunt and have the place full of little and other crap. This year while hunting up near Mazama I was sitting ontop of a ridge a few miles off the road when I saw two guys hunting down below me at least a 1000 yards off. Well they saw me sitting up there and continued to hike my way, I thought there was no way they would come all the way up especially in my direction. They made it to about 40 yards in-front of me and yelled up "see anything?" needless to say I was pissed, the only funny thing was they were so out of shape I think they rolled back down the hill. I don't think if I was wearing orange they would have saw me.. or felt the need to come and say hi. Just my to cents though.

[cascademountainhunter]

i ould where a orange cap anyway