Do ya wear blaze orange for safety or what?

[mcbammer]

Dang, McBammer, us Alabama boys' heads ain't big enough to wear orange in Colorado.
[/quote  Can  you  get  a  mexican  sombero  in  blaze  orange?       

[FPH]

Dang, McBammer, us Alabama boys' heads ain't big enough to wear orange in Colorado.
[/quote  Can  you  get  a  mexican  sombero  in  blaze  orange?       

You bet.  Even get the A stitched on for you.

[mcwoodduck]

In Ca we do not have to wear Orange for most hunting.  But we often do wear orange hats just to beable to keep track of each other. 

[Old Fart]

I was backpacking on the Ozark Highland Trail a few years back and a park ranger stopped us and told us we were required to wear some type of clothing in the bright orange. It was eveidently deer rifle season and we didn't know it.

[Dresden]

We should wear orange for a couple of reasons:
1. There are too many hunters with cheap scopes that are willing to take long shots in poor light.


2. The animals do not wear orange so most of the idiots can get a clue.


I live and hunt in Minnesota,(any sympathetic comments would be well received), and have been shot at in the woods by some fool before dawn and legal shooting time, even in WW1 the firing squads waited until dawn.


I work at my gun range as a safety officer during "Deer Hunting Sight In events, I wish I had a dollar every time I had to remind a "shooter" to lower the muzzle of their gun so if the rifle discharged it would not shoot through the roof or over the berm.


I used to teach construction safety as an OSHA approved instructor, I am used to seeing stupid disregard for
safety issues, the second most common accident is being crushed because somebody ran over or dropped something on you because they didn't see you.

[Blue Duck]

What ever happened to be sure of your target?   Its been replaced with " If it don't glow, shoot it".

[Oldshooter]

I live and hunt in Minnesota,(any sympathetic comments would be well received), and have been shot at in the woods by some fool before dawn and legal shooting time, even in WW1 the firing squads waited until dawn.

I have been through the bridges at St paul with snow flurries in June! you have my sympathy.
 
It is a fact that "most" firing squads do wait until dawn.     However in the woods around here, a box blind is a good thing to be in a while before dawn.  Movement of any kind is apt to bring a hail of gun fire. I DONT WALK ANYWHERE IN THE WOODS ANY MORE,during hunting season. Thats what they make rangers and 4 wheelers for! 

[mcwoodduck]

The only problem I have with the orange is.  We all shoot sheet, trap or Sporting clays to hone our skills for shooting birds in the field.
The problem I see is the clay birds are a nice big orange dome, when you swing through the bird and your front bead hits the orange dome you pull the trigger.  The big oops is we all were a big orange dome on our heads when we hunt upland game and .....

[JonnyReb]

 I don't wear it here in N.C. behind the house, as it isn't required so long as i stay on our plot. When i hunt in N.Y. i would be shot if i didn't wear it.

 I think mandatory orange laws can be dangerous in the minds of occasional imbeciles who feel ok to shoot so long as the intended target DOESN'T have orange. Better to have orange by choice, where all hunters know that they may well not see orange on fellow hunters and are held responsible for their shot. Or am i wrong on that?  j

[Ranger99]

you're not wrong.
unfortunately we live in such a
****ty world now, there are folks
that would most likely finish you
off and hide your body if they were
to accidentally shoot you. or maybe
might not be an accident. i hear of
too many " sound shots" still being
made this day and age. the 10
commandments of gun safety, one
of which is to be sure of your target
and what's beyond it, aren't given
as much attention today as they
should be.

[thumper113]

It's the law here.  With the fools around I'd wear it anyway.  We had a guy this year shoot his stepbrother off his back porch.  Swore he shot a doe, instead it was family out for a walk up the creek.

[Oldshooter]

Swore he shot a doe, instead it was family out for a walk up the creek.

I watch ID(Investigative Discovery) from time to time. A program about how people murder each other and how they are brought to justice. It is made up of stories like that.    you should call the producers and give em a tip! 

[hunt-m-up]

Pigs, deer, dogs, etc., are color blind in the red/orange part of the spectrum, but can see extremely well in the blue/violet/ultraviolet part of the spectrum.
We humans use camouflage to hide from other humans or birds (turkey), so, if you want to become a possible target, please wear camouflage!

Large blocks of solid color/black/white however they appear to animals are not normal in nature except for maybe a bright blue sky. Camouflage breaks up one's outline and/or replicates the patterns found in nature. In this respect a checkered flannel shirt offers more "concealment" than an orange vest, however orange is required in the areas I hunt most often and I will wear it accordingly.

[Land_Owner]

i hear of too many " sound shots" still being made this day and age.

Idiots on Pubic and Private land here still do this.  Not too many years ago a Turkey Hunter in Spring Season was shot and killed, right next to his 10 y.o. son, by such an idiot that "heard" a gobbler in the thicket, shot "it", then found out he shot the father who was at the time wearing "Safety" Orange and making the calls.

I had an associate at work, "had" is the operative word, who would routinely report that his hunting partners, family, and himself, had taken multiple "sound shots" the previous weekend without success, once narrowly missing a family member skirting another's tree stand.  He said if they killed a doe out of season or without a tag, they just ate it as camp meat.  Nothing of real evidence ever for me to approach the Warden though.  Stupid Florida Cracker.  Pain killer addict we found out later.  His head and thinking was FUBAR and while WE knew he was a Whacko, he STILL thought he was "normal" from his own perspective.

Reminds me of the two Gomers from the inner city.  First time hunters.  New guns, right out of the box, not sighted in.  Full camo.  Opening morning.  "What do we do now?"  "You go thata way and I'll go thisa way.  If-in you see anything, just shoot it."  Shot rings out. 

Ending One
OMG!  Dials 911.  Dispatch "911."  "I've shot my hunting partner!"  "Is he dead?"  Another shot rings out.  "He is now!"

Ending Two
OMG!  "I've shot my hunting partner!"  Hurries him to the ER.  "Is he going to make it Doc?"  "Well, he woulda had a better chance if you hadn't gutted him first!"

So much for Hunter Orange...he he.

[Ranger99]

funny and sad too.


i'd never heard of a sound shot until
in s.w. arkansas.  a friend was a good
ways off in the thick bush and i heard
two loud shots. a bit later here he comes and
walks right past. i asked hey! did you
get anything? he turns and says- no!
these two goobers shot at me. he'd
asked them if they got something and
one says he'd made a couple of sound shots.
i never went back.

[D Fischer]

The only bird vest I have is orange. I got it for judging field trials and still damn near got shot off a horse once. If I need to wear orange in the field hunting, I'm hunting in the wrong spot. I very seldom see other hunter's.

Years ago, early 70's, I lived in Montana. a story came out in the local paper about a grade school kid that was shot getting off a yellow school bus. Guy that shot the kid said he though it was a deer. Think orange would have helped that kid?

[Mike in Virginia]

I wore the orange camo pattern before it became the law here that the orange you wore had to be so many square inches of solid orange, or an orange hat.  Got me a hat a kept wearing the orange camo, which lots of idjits came to believe was illegal even with the hat.  No few people told me, "You can't wear that.  It has to be one solid color." 
But, I believe in that hat even though I hunt private property only.  A hunter make take a shot at a deer, not seeing the other hunter on the other side of the deer.  If he had a hat, the shooter wouldn't shoot.  Maybe. 
I like it also because it helps me find my nephew when it's time for lunch. 
 

[geezerbiker]

I solved most of these problems by never hunting on a weekend.  To many wacko weekend warriors in the woods then.  I prefer to hunt Tuesday Through Thursday because that takes the 3 and 4 day weekenders out of the picture.  I still wear an orange stocking cap but my ears get cold during deer hunting so I need a cap anyway.

Tony