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    Ever been shot at? Blaze vs Camo

    Hi guys, I know its been talked about here before but it sounds like a fair few people have been shot at lately. I figure perhaps worth bringing it up again. Have you ever been shot at? If so, were you wearing blaze, camo or other? Were you a Blaze enthusiast and now wont touch it, or vise versa? Interested to see what the general consensus is these days...

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    1 Shot over, 2 gun pointed at me....first one, guy knew I was there, had a rush of blood to his non functioning brain, and shot iver me....non blaze wearing....second one guy was stalking through the bush, apparently he is hard of hearing and his eyes don't work so pointed his gun at me after I whistled and my dog barked at him.....

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    Not been shot at, but had some very close calls.
    The worst was a bloke that thought my mate and I were a stag. My mate was wearing a full blaze camo swani style jacket and the other bloke thought he was the shoulder of a stag - was on full cock, safety off when he saw the face and recognized my mate through the scope! (Both locals). The interesting thing (in hind sight) is when we walked up to this guy he turned into two people. One guy was wearing blue overalls and the other was full camo hunting gear and disappeared into the Bush.
    So the lesson for me is that bright blue stands out in the Bush and blaze orange can look faded in the dark. These days when hunting public land, and particularly in the Bush I cover my bases with both a blaze and a blue. Blue top and a blaze hat or vise versa.
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    What shootings have occurred 'lately'? Historically yes but recent?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hunteast View Post
    What shootings have occurred 'lately'? Historically yes but recent?
    No recent "shootings" as such that I'm aware of. A couple of FB posts, and comments on those posts from people saying they'd also been shot "AT" this year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evoke. View Post
    No recent "shootings" as such that I'm aware of. A couple of FB posts, and comments on those posts from people saying they'd also been shot "AT" this year.
    So what conversation are you trying to provoke then?
    You start out saying "a fair few people have been shot at lately" then you walk it back saying " no recent shootings"

    TBH mate, 7 posts in and you are asking what could be considered trolling questions

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    Opening morning at my dads house, No one shoots there due to my step mum not liking the animals being shaken up....
    Well I turn up with a mate to cut some wood and the old man and his mate, with his son or friend etc are there on the deck. Beers out....
    I tell em where I am cutting and off I head. Should have told em to piss off.

    about five minutes later a spread of shot splashed the pond in front of me and the stand of bamboo behind me.

    Fuck was I pissed off.
    Marched off and told em what I thought of them all and left.

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    yep shot at twice and hit both times, no blaze or camo in the 70's
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    Had a clown identify me through the scope while I was wearing blaze and had told him an hour earlier where I was going to be. Also watched something moving behind some scrub for 5 minutes before realizing it was my mate, far from where he said he was going to he hunting and not wearing the usual blaze cap he wears, would've taken 2 seconds to identify if he was so that's why I wear blaze. If someone's dumb enough to shoot me wearing blaze they are certainly dumb enough to shoot me wearing anything else
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    I always wear blaze when in public hunting grounds, but was disappointed the other day to take a UV torch to my Hunter's Element blaze neck gaiter and see that it was basically a neon light to deer. I'm not talking the orange doing it, but more like a night hazard sign. You could spot it in low light or shadow from a mile away if you even slightly enhance UV, which deer vision does.

    Won't be buying a blaze neck gaiter again (some make them UV reflective for sun protection), or anything camo in fact, without running my UV torch over it first. Good old fashioned natural camo fibres have my interest again since buying this torch. Yep also take care of washing powder without brighteners.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Remote View Post
    I always wear blaze when in public hunting grounds, but was disappointed the other day to take a UV torch to my Hunter's Element blaze neck gaiter and see that it was basically an orange neon light for deer. I'm not talking the orange doing it, but more like a night hazard sign. You could spot it in low light from a mile away if you even slightly enhance UV.

    Won't be buying a blaze neck gaiter again (some make them UV reflective for sun protection), or anything camo in fact, without taking running my UV torch over it. Good old fashioned natural camo fibres have my interest again since buying this torch.
    I have to wear a knee brace because I have a bad knee, and only recently I realized that parts of it are highly reflective (not UV, just light reflective). Anecdotally noticed that deer look in my direction more often when I was wearing it. If I keep still they USUALLY move on slowly but with movement + reflective parts I reckon they spook much easier. Might be the same with UV. Don't move and its good, but its nice having an extra advantage of NOT looking bright to your target animal.

    But yeah i love hunting restricted areas or balloted areas because there is much lower chance of having a gun pointed at me (chances come from poachers). If possible weekdays are ideal, even less likely. So this way I feel safer wearing camo. My co workers told me today that they have had guns pointed at them by hunters at a hut while they were approaching the hut from a public track. Co workers were wearing normal colored casual clothes, like blue/white.

    If I do end up on unrestricted public land on a weekend, i prefer blue camo pattern.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JessicaChen View Post
    I have to wear a knee brace because I have a bad knee, and only recently I realized that parts of it are highly reflective (not UV, just light reflective). Anecdotally noticed that deer look in my direction more often when I was wearing it. If I keep still they USUALLY move on slowly but with movement + reflective parts I reckon they spook much easier. Might be the same with UV. Don't move and its good, but its nice having an extra advantage of NOT looking bright to your target animal.

    But yeah i love hunting restricted areas or balloted areas because there is much lower chance of having a gun pointed at me (chances come from poachers). If possible weekdays are ideal, even less likely. So this way I feel safer wearing camo. My co workers told me today that they have had guns pointed at them by hunters at a hut while they were approaching the hut from a public track. Co workers were wearing normal colored casual clothes, like blue/white.

    If I do end up on unrestricted public land on a weekend, i prefer blue camo pattern.
    Some interesting info I read online about what parts of the light spectrum that deer see said that the blue part of the spectrum stands out to deer the same as white would for the human eye. The takeaway from this is that if you want to reduce your visibility to deer then never wear blue.
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    I've seen and shot alot of deer bushstalking wearing the swandri blue checkering color. Does blue stand out to deer,perhaps. But does that matter, I don't think so.
    As far as I reckon white is the only color that is no good to wear
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    Similar to me. Have shot plenty of animals in a blue swandri. Majority in the bush or on flats at less than 50m. Have also shot enough tahr and chamois in open tussock with one on to know that movement is easily the bigger giveaway. Stay still enough and they shouldn't pick up on you.

    For instance had two stags walk in to me over summer and neither realised something was up until they crossed my downwind at about 5m in the bush. I was dead still looking at a map at the time and so hadn't been moving when they first came into view

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    Quote Originally Posted by zeropak View Post
    Some interesting info I read online about what parts of the light spectrum that deer see said that the blue part of the spectrum stands out to deer the same as white would for the human eye. The takeaway from this is that if you want to reduce your visibility to deer then never wear blue.
    Yeah I have heard that too, but at the same time blue might stand out more to humans as not being a deer, at least in low light conditions. Or maybe I should go full camo so both deer and hunter cannot see me : o) .

 

 

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