Thread: Colours then.....!!!

Originally Posted by Sideshow

I’m with @2post here’s one to go with your hatAttachment 102128
Staying safe but still being able to enjoy your sport while not having that nagging doubts of am I visible to another hunter, am I visible to deer and can I be mistaken for something else!
Well if you shoot me wearing this!
Again as already said won’t stop the idiots that shoot through bushes at unidentifiable targets!

Where did you get that @Sideshow, it looks good. I’ve only seen kids stuff in pink, I had to make the hat myself out of a blanket from H&F.

Ok I get that @bing but if it stands out from its surroundings the deer will concentrate more on it so when it then moves well games up.
Colour is one thing and movement is another but add the two together and your busted. It's a fact that if your trying to sneak in on a deer and they see you move but have not identified you as a threat they will after a while carrry on doing what ever they where doing. But if they see you movment from that area again the game is up.

As for shark attacks versus hunting deaths well I doubt that there are many hunting deaths in Aussie but shark attacks

As Winston Churchill once said "The only statistics you can trust are the ones you have falsified yourself"!

This series might be interesting

[QUOTE=Sideshow;779051]Ok I get that @bing but if it stands out from its surroundings the deer will concentrate more on it so when it then moves well games up.
Colour is one thing and movement is another but add the two together and your busted. It's a fact that if your trying to sneak in on a deer and they see you move but have not identified you as a threat they will after a while carrry on doing what ever they where doing. But if they see you movement from that area again the game is up.

100% with you re movement. I'm no expert re colour and animals just an interested observer. As I understand it blue happens to be the only colour that deer are able to differentiate and in our terms the only colour they can 'see' which is not to say that for deer it actually "stands out from it's surroundings" but simply that it is part of their register as five finger leaves for example will have a particular monochromatic tonal value blue may simply be another discernible visible entity and be no more prominent than the five finger leaves. Again, not my field and I should probably go looking for a reviewed paper on the subject. There's a big deer farming concern over the road from me, I'll ask the manager what the research says and get back you.

Ooops, starts to fall apart in the first few minutes. Dart gun's or tranq guns as we know them were invented in the 50's by Colin Murdoch in NZ - me thinks this video might be a little bit 'loose'. Anyway will watch the rest of it before I get carried away

Never new that ^^^ must have done it to catch them jet boats that had been invented

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Yes I agree Carlsen. I don’t like to troll and rant and rave about stuff I don’t know much about... but the sentence on the recent Kaimai accident was a massive eye opener for me. Like, is this for real? I honestly had no idea that not going to jail was even an option for something like that, no matter how contrite you are. It doesn’t seem to stack up against all the other things that happen in life, when things go badly wrong.

The guy who fed dope cake to his colleagues got two years FFS!!!

I missed the Kaimanawa deaths in 2002 / 03 whenever it was, when there were three in a row, as I was overseas, but when I read about those a few months ago, and the police report that came after, I thought 9 months was bloody light.

To open up another old argument, if you cause a traffic fatality, it is just one of those things, going by the sentencing. Hunting with a license is no different from driving with a license, except the ballistics are several magnitudes more powerful with vehicles.

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

I have come to the same conclusion. I have worn a south african '83 pattern webbing in the bush a few times now, and really like it to carry gear in.
But seeing it's a chocolate brown, I figure that sooner or later it will cause a problem, so I'm looking for a blue or grey paint to fix it.

If anyone here has painted webbing, I'd be interested to see how it turned out, and what you used.

Buy some gentian violet microscopy stain, hard to wash off anything, including the sink, so play with it somewhere marriage-safe! You'll look like one of those purple camo soldiers in the cadbury adverts, but you'll be visible for sure.

This link suggests the gentian violet stain is fixed by heat, e.g. a tumble drier, but I'd hesitate to risk staining the tumble drier. https://breastfeedingpositionsreview...or-purple.html

@2post from Pinewood in Sweden. Type in pink hunting vests.

You could also try pink Velcro straps. I used to use some that we would use on cow hoofs to mark out those that where not lent to go in the vat. These straps I’d have around my arms.

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@2post from Pinewood in Sweden. Type in pink hunting vests.

I have been mocked! They only have them in women’s! Not that I wouldn’t buy one but the sizes are too small for me. I’ll have to go back to my sewing machine and make my own. Nothing wrong with being I touch with my feminine side after all my mum is a women and so is my wife, even my kids are all girls.

This is interesting and related to this discussion, no sources quoted just statements but non the less interesting.

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