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April 14, 2011, 11:14 PM | #26 | |
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While we're on the subject, here's the requirements for every state:
http://www.ihea.com/hunter-education...quirements.php Required or not, wear it during rifle season. |
April 15, 2011, 05:02 AM | #28 |
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it's already been well established, deer don't see blaze orange like we do. you could wear a clown suit in the woods and be perfectly fine. what does spook them is scent and movement. if a deer so much as catches a whiff of you, it's gone. if a deer sees you so much as blink an eye, it's gone. even scent blockers aren't 100%. the best you can do is minimize you scent and minimize movement.
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A lot of zoos display small nocturnal animals under red lights which is like darkness to them. That way visitors can see them doing something other than sleeping.
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April 15, 2011, 07:18 AM | #30 |
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Generally I think camo cloths are over rated. But it does have a role even when we have to wear orange vest:
A couple examples: It gives my wife something to buy for me when she can't think of anything else and it makes it so I have "dedicated" hunting clothes. But beyond that it does break up your outline on the areas of your body that move the most and deer most readily identify as you being a hunter. In other words your arms and legs. Years ago I read an article that your legs are one of the biggest factors in whether or not a deer sees you as being a threat. 2 legs = hunter. Hide them and you "may" improve you success. Camo is more a function of breaking up your outline than blending you in. But as I stated, I believe it is over rated. A good plaid shirt and some carhartt pants is 99% as effective if you watch your movement IMO. LK |
April 15, 2011, 10:23 AM | #31 |
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hate orange
Yeah, I hate wearing orange. AL law requires an orange hat, but once in an elevated stand it can be removed. A reversible cap is a popular item.
What a statement to our sport, we are so unsafe, that we must wear safety clothes so we don't shoot each other. Drives me nuts. Actually, the state land I bow hunt is usually closed to gun hunts, and I can wear all camo there, and do. |
April 15, 2011, 10:43 AM | #32 |
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Had a schoolmate who was lucky enough to survive his buddy's missed shot at a deer, survived, but his left arm never worked or looked right after that. I'm all good with some orange, heck i have a safety orange hoodie that i wear when i am just goofing off in the woods.
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I have sat with my back against a large tree, butt on the ground, wearing blaze orange (with 3 kids in blaze orange in tow) and had deer walk within 5 feet of me. Once they got downwind, though, the jig was up. I tried to scare off a fork horn buck one year, when he walked within 25 yards of me on the other side of a creek..... I whistled at him, and whispered "git!"...... he stopped, circled a bit (trying to get wind of me) then walked across the creek, straight to me, stopping 10 feet away ...... still trying to figure exactly what I was...... he finally ran off after I told him to "git!" again. |
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I was sitting on a rock on a tidal flat on Prince of Wales Island waiting on a boat pickup when a bear came out of the woods less than 100 yards from us and started eating vegetation. The scary thing is that he came in behind us and we didn't know it until we opted to move to another location and saw the bear. The bear knew we were there and just wasn't interested. I have had deer at a feeder watch me as I climbed into a tree stand within 50 yards of them. Sometimes you may be "invisible" to the deer and completely unsensed by them otherwise. Sometimes, they just aren't all that impressed it seems.
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There might come a time when, while you're out hunting, The U.S. of A. is invaded (I'm picturing the movie Red Dawn here). You'll be glad to have some camouflage when you're planning subversive retaliation.
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Edward, holy crap I was way off, guess I ought to check out the regs the next time I go phesant hunting.
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As you said- It's amazing what animals can sometimes choose to ignore, or react unexpectedly to. And, in contrast, it's amazing what they can be condition to view as a possible threat, even though humans see no eminent danger (such as my wife feeding them).
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Choice for camo? I believe it is mostly about marketing when it comes to deer hunting with a rifle. It is the law in most states to wear blaze orange. It works. It could save your life and that is worth more than any deer. I wear camo with blaze orange vest over top because the camo stuff was offered in a weight/warmth that I was looking for and I can wear it at other times of the year and not look like a walking flood light. |
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I don't wear camo pants. But, all the really functional hunting jackets and coats seem to come in camo. I don't see how it can hurt anything.
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I was wearing a BO vest, BO hat, black ski pants, and blue jacket, only blue sleeves showing, sitting on a big grey rock.
The deer looked at me, and ran, real fast. she had no problem figuring out I did not belong in the woods, and I didn't move As has been stated above deer see colors much differently. Blaze orange stands out against most backgrounds as very different to a human, but not to a deer. Deer on the other hand see the color blue, as much brighter than do humans. It was likely your blue sleeves that made you stand out as different. |
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Look, the bottom line here is that the "BLAZE ORANGE" is for Other hunters to see YOU....... who cares what a deer sees.... to a point they usually can't discerne you from any other stump in the woods...... You want to be seen by fellow hunters... I really don't hunt for those "Monster bucks" anyway, so I'm more in tune with the other hunters in the area noticing me,,,, for saftey...
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I stand 6/1" and tip the scale at about 400 lbs, I wear a 6X B O Tee shirt under my OD Mesh Vest, and a size Freakin Huge B O Baseball cap. Even with the Mesh Vest covering 'some' of the Tee Shirt, I still look like the "Great Pumpkin" where-ever I go. I haven't measure the "area" of the exposed shirt-orange, but it must exceed the minimum standard....Hell it was made by 'Omar the tentmaker" Remember the old Ray Stevens song...
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"...sitting on a big grey rock."
Possibly pattern identification. The rock didn't look the same as it did earlier or the day before--and to most animals, "Different is BAD! Run away! Run away!" The wildlife boffins have reported that the wild turkey is superior to deer for pattern identification. Doesn't matter what you wear if you're skylined and creating a different pattern. |
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Even with a blaze orange vest and hat, your pattern is still broke up enough that deer don't easily understand what you are. To add to that, deer are looking for movement more so than a pattern so blaze orange isn't really going to hurt your odds. I might even suggest that camo in general is over rated. It certainly doesn't hurt, but you can still have a successful hunt without camo if you control your scent and movement.
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Maybe in the last half-century, deer have evolved away from being color-blind. See, back before camo, folks down south commonly wore Levi pants and jackets when out messing around with Bambi.
Probably 1950 or 1951 I was sneaky-snaking around my uncle's back pasture. Came near the boundary fence. Other side, was a fella in Levis, sitting on a stump. A doe was feeding by, maybe ten or fifteen yards away from him. That sort of thing was not at all uncommon back in those days. Nowadays? From what the advertising says, if you don't wear camo you'll just be like a strobe light to Bambi's eyes. I guess. |
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