Thread: Blaze or no Blaze

The problem with wearing camo. is that these clowns are shooting at movement or sound. Blaze is better. Yellow tends to fade out in late afternoon sunlight, and blue is difficult to see in heavy, dark bush. Wearing green, brown or camo is asking for trouble.

Originally Posted by Ranger 888

The problem with wearing camo. is that these clowns are shooting at movement or sound. Blaze is better. Yellow tends to fade out in late afternoon sunlight, and blue is difficult to see in heavy, dark bush. Wearing green, brown or camo is asking for trouble.

Are you serious....these so called clowns are normally always experinced hunters who have done it a long time, they not shooting at movement or a sound, thats a joke. They not identifying there target 100pcent, they see part of something they clearly think is a deer. To there eyes what they seeing is a deer, the colour, shape etc is what there brain is telling them , yep, thats a deer. The mistake they making is not seeing enough of the animal to confirm 100 p cent it is actually a deer.
Deer arent green, and wearing camo is not asking for trouble because they happen to see some movement because they not just shooting at movement. Just happens that some of the ones shot last year were wearing blaze, and it didnt save them. One was shot in the head and he had a blaze cap on.. I suggest wearing green, camo is prob safer than blaze, they wont see you , and if they do they going to struggle thinking you a deer . More likely a faded blaze top, brown backpack, colour of your hair than camo.
And from your BIO on your profile Ranger 88 you should know what the facts are when it comes to these shootings. Being a former firearm safety officer and involved in SAR and the mountain Safety you should know its experienced hunters, over 45, been hunting at least ten years or more that are involved in most of these shootings, not "clowns that just fire at anything"". Maybe back in your day you werent informed on the facts ?

When I was a firearms safety instructor (22 years) we received from Police each year, the reports on hunter fatalities in NZ. From memory, something like 95% of dead hunters were shot by a member of their own party, and wore green or camo. clothing. Fact. A small percentage of the shooters were "experienced" hunters, that had picked up poor habits early in their hunting careers. Fact. "Deer .243" is correct in stating that the offending shooters are not identifying their target, which is why it is so important to be identifiable. As an accident investigator I spoke to several shooters who had seen a movement, in an area where they thought deer would be found, and pulled the trigger, and shot their mate, sometimes at ranges of no more than 16 meters! Twice in my hunting career, in the days when I wore green clothing, I came across a hunter who had me in their sights and were squeezing the trigger on a movement, when they saw my "white legs" moving through the scrub. Otherwise, they were preparing to shoot solely at an object moving through the scrub. To stay alive these days, I don't hunt in the roar, and hunt on private blocks (where there should be no other hunters , but once encountered a senior member of NZDA poaching on my balloted block). And I wear brightly coloured clothing-deer and other animals are totally colour blind, so what is the point of wearing camo? Deer have very poor eyesight, but their hearing and sense of smell is hundreds of times better than ours. Fact. Wearing bright clothing certainly hasn't affected my tallies.