Blaze Orange Requirements

[CrackStock]

I mostly hunt private land and could get away with no orange. However, I wear a voyage cap and orange vest going in and out, but pin orange around my tree when in a stand or near it when in a ground stand.

I also carry some orange to wrap on any kill that I make so we don't get shot on the way out of the woods by someone mistaking the kill as an animal moving on its own.

CS

 

[Hoyt]

I hunt open public land and it has all types of people in the woods. Three different times people have tried to check out hens during spring gobbler season..one was 6-1/2lbs.
I saw a guy one time get out of his truck and start into the woods..he had a Rem. scoped auto strung across his back, a recurve with arrow on rest in one hand and a can of bud in the other. I've seen them sitting on top of a 10' step ladder in the middle of a clay road with bow in hand...a girl being driven around sitting cross legged on the roof of a Honda Civic with a bow in hand and arrow on the rest. A man sitting on the hood of his car leaning back against the windshield with deer rifle in hand. He had on his white dress shirt and pants..guess he just got out of church. His wife or girl friend was driving him around. There's a lot of people in the woods that don't have a clue about what they are doing.
I try to get away from them but have to go through some to do so. I wear the biggest brightest orange vest I can find and hat too. I also drape one on the back of my tree stands if I'm carrying them on my back. I also put one on my bike's handlebars and on the tree stand if hauling one on the back of bike. Bikes make horizontal lines going through the woods and I know of two people in the area I hunt that have been killed riding bikes.
When I get into the tree stand I take all the orange off..but coming and going I want to be seen by other hunters.

 

[sprucefly]

I hunt in OH for whitetails and have often wondered why one can't buy a blaze orange hunting frock. I would certainly buy one if one of the sutlers would offer it.

 

[hbennett]

Nebraska requires 400 sq in. on the head, chest and back. I wash my stuff in a UV killer and it does work. Last year I had a doe lay down about 7 - 10 yards from me, and she looked right at me several times. Better save than sorry...

During deer season here in MA I wear an orange outfit that makes me look like a nightmare "Pilsbury doughboy". I also wash with UV killer. I'm sure it works. I went eyeball-to-eyeball with at six-pointer at 15 yards before he decided I was harmless.. apparently he was right since I missed! .. at 15 yards! Also had an 8-pointer walk within 20 yards of me while I was wearing the same suit.. he wasn't so lucky.

BTW- Here in the swamps of MA, people wearing head-to-toe orange can completely disappear within 50 yards of you. The brush can be that thick.

 

[oomcurt]

I would add sound to the mix. Some fabrics are god awful noisey in the woods. Having the fabric treated to prevent any luminosity seems like a great idea. Years back...one had to wear at least 50% red jacket and cap where I hunted. Then "they" found that at a distance and in poor light red becomes black. Hmmm...to be honest, I guess today we have a preponderance of idiots loose. Never ever have I seen a man that looked or acted like a deer or bear. Maybe I guess a guy could look like a bear climbing to a tree stand..but back in Wis..no reason for a tree stand..and we did have some damm thick cover. If one wanted to get a deer out of that...you organized a drive..and you had better be dammed sure of what you shot at when something come out of the brush. I guess I could go on and on about how we "used to hunt"..but with todays hunters..I dunno..makes me wonder how they got as far as they did at times.

 

[loishd]

Myself and a couple others do full PC deer hunt here in Ohio each fall. We camp and hunt just as our forefathers with one exception, French moccasins (ie Rocky Boots) and the Blaze Orange while hunting. I have a blaze voyager's cap and a felt pull over vest. My friend has a wool two sided cape like that on a great coat. It is walnut dyed on one side and blaze on the other. It rests over the shoulders and hangs about to the waist. It has two buttons to hold it in place. When in the woods the orange is out when in camp turn around no one to know the difference. There was an offering to purchase something similar to "buckskinner mag" but my friends looks longer.
Mike with "The Ohio Peddler" also sells a reversable weskit but to me the cape is easier you don't have to remove everything to change colors.
:m2c: :results:

 

[mikee51848]

I have a blaze voyager's cap

Is that the one TOW sells? I took a long look at it. Guess I'll just put my orange vest on over my rifleman's coat and pretend it's not there But everything else will be period.
Thanks fellas, for all the replies. :hatsoff:

PS.

reversable weskit

Not warm enough for me!

 

[Huntinfool]

I use a reversiable cape it's canvas and fleece it's not 100% pc but it looks better than a regular Blaze vest!

I also have a knitted cap.

Chuck :thumbsup:

 

[Black Hand]

In Montana, 400 sq. inches required above the waist during rifle season. I do not wear camo, but wear my usual "primitive" clothes and an orange vest. I also have a blaze orange bandana and a 18x18 inch piece of blaze fabric I stitch to my matchcoat for the munting season. I have also made a hunting shirt that I dyed a blaze orange with Rit berries (but I am still hesitant to wear it as it may not have the low-light visibility or regular blaze material).
Black Hand

 

[freetrapper20]

N. Carolina requires that for big game season (Deer, Bear) you wear a safety orange hat or outer garment visible from all sides. An orange voyager's hat does nicely. I have no problem with that as probably 90% of the other hunters around my area run dogs. I feel safer with the orange and up a tree out of the immediate line of fire.
Where I hunt in West Va., regulations say during deer season you have to wear a hunter orange outer garment of at least 400 sq. inches. It very steep in my area an not unusual for hunters to shoot across from one ridge to the other . I want to be seen. Up there I usually wear a vest over whatever other clothes I'm wearing.(If I got all that orange on and someone still shoots at me, I guess he's trying to kill me.....might have to shoot back) :hmm: