Thread: Hunter shot in Kaimai Range near Te Aroha

Originally Posted by Sideshow

I won’t be wearing blue anytime soon as it’s one of the colours that deers see!
But I do hear you on the blaze orange looking like red. So I’ll be going with the camo pink!
Have yet to see a pink deardeer
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/dress...?source=images

Here’s a nice little number from Norway
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Lots of pockets for your make up

I wear either an oilskin or a Swandri weather dependant of course, no camo, no blaze orange, no blue, no bells and whistles. All this targeted marketed stuff you need to kill a deer is a bunch of crap. Understand your prey know what your prey look like know what they sound like know how they behave and you will not mistake ol Hill Billy Jack for a god dam deer.
mistaken identity is just a bullshit excuse for a useless trigger happy poacher to get off murder.

Which eyeliner do you prefer @Gibo the blue, blaze orange our the camo green

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Gibo would look a bit devilish with black lipstick too.

Now I am gonna have nightmares for a fortnight.

Even a top pocket for ur earings @Gibo

Originally Posted by Rushy

Now I am gonna have nightmares for a fortnight.

Only a fortnight @Rushy the memory is not what it used to be ah.... @Gibo your next victim awaits

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...-by-stag-fever

The end of this sorry tale detailed in this recent news story.

The fact that Leech was wearing a brown oilskin jacket has attracted some attention round these parts. I don't wish to get some of you fellas all rarked up by recounting exactly what I was told this morning in Katikati, just know that over and above the trauma suffered by the families involved, there's some damn unhappy blokes who've lost a mate despite their best efforts to get him to change his ingrained habits.

Very sad.
I wonder what is perceived as a higher level of carelessness, if this was supposedly in the lower

Originally Posted by Pengy

Very sad.
I wonder what is perceived as a higher level of carelessness, if this was supposedly in the lower

Possibly something like shooting someone brushing their teeth while spotlighting in a DOC camping ground

Just really tragic all round.

As the judge said you are entitled to wear what you want. But this seems to make that statement seem rather hollow.

My understanding, @Sideshow is that it was the defendant’s lawyer that said that in a commendable effort not to communicate any blame towards the dead man. We talked about that in town today. However whilst that sentiment is understood and respected, hollow is one way of expressing the frustration that is felt.

After these conversations on the way to Tauranga this morning, I invested in some new hi-viz gear today ahead of my first lengthy foray into public land for a fair while, including a blaze orange backpack cover.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

My understanding, @Sideshow is that it was the defendant’s lawyer that said that in a commendable effort not to communicate any blame towards the dead man. We talked about that in town today. However whilst that sentiment is understood and respected, hollow is one way of expressing the frustration that is felt.

After these conversations on the way to Tauranga this morning, I invested in some new hi-viz gear today ahead of my first lengthy foray into public land for a fair while, including a blaze orange backpack cover.

Hope you still got the receipt, that stuff is as bad as the brown mate if seen in low light (under the canopy) and seen behind/thru scrub, you might want to think about swapping it for blue - or do what I and many others now do, all green or camo and not be seen at all, rather than make yourself a target.

I hear what you’re saying @GWH. Down on our block we tested the good stuff and some not so good stuff not long after this thread started in response to some earlier comments, the proper glowing blaze orange e.g. Hunters Element, right down to full dark under the canopy. Twice, in different locations from numerous different angles, in the light, in the shade. The quality gear did not turn brown, not at all. Stood out like a luminous bloody beacon. But I wouldn’t say the same of an old faded Stoney Creek camo pattern fleece we tried, I got one of those that is well past it and that was pretty ordinary in low light, to say the least.

Me and the missus properly disappear in our camo but after lots of questions and a fair bit of argument we came to the conclusion that some top quality hi viz was the way to go and like I say we checked it properly. Things like the pack covers will only be used on the trails in the day when hiking in and out of basecamp, the packs don’t get worn when hunting. With those on you’ll be able to see us from 3 miles and 10,000ft.

Its an emotive subject and I don’t want to start another debate but our decision was clear to us, based on what we could see in real hunting conditions.

Yes blaze PINK is the way forward as not seen by deer, not like blue. And better than orange which seems when old our in poor like be mistaken by others for various reasons. At worst wear pink I might get mistaken for a grinder