Thread: Blaze or no Blaze

Very interesting thread, great discussion. Never considered wearing blaze would potentially put you in more danger.. Will put more thought into this!

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Very interesting thread, great discussion. Never considered wearing blaze would potentially put you in more danger.. Will put more thought into this!

2 or 3 roars ago, i had an experience where i roared in a couple of hunters in fairly thick bush. Before i knew they were hunters i had seen what i was sure was deer colour moving across behind scrub, i could hear it, and was waiting for it to come out further and present a shot. then a bush started to shake, and i was expecting to see the stag emerge from the scrub - I got a hell of a shock when a father and son hunters popped out, they wearing full blaze orange head to toe. My rifle was not raised into the shooting position once, but my thumb was resting on the safety all ready to flick it off.

I am certain that there would have been some people would have fired at the first colour and movement that i had seen (heaven forbid). The colour i saw looked exactly like deer colour to me when it was under a dark bush canopy and partially hidden behind scrub.

It scared the shit out of me, I was sitting hidden behind a bush higher than where they emerged wearing full camo/green, they hadnt seen me until i made my presence known to them, fair to say they shat themselves too. We all hunted together for the rest of the day.

I believe its not until you have witnessed this that you will have a good appreciation for how bad blaze orange can be, in my opinion it is darn right dangerous in this situation. Whilst there is still no excuses for shooting someone that is wearing blaze orange (or anything else) why wear something that actually can make the situation worse and make you look more like deer colour in some situations.

Green and/or camo for me, would rather not be seen rather than make myself a target. Blaze orange IMO is dangerous and should be banned! There has been a couple incidents of recent years from memory where the poor bastards were trying to do the right thing, wearing blaze orange beanies/caps and got shot in the head!!