Thread: Hunter numbers during the holidays

They can't cook a steak to save their life either because rare and well done is the same colour to them haha

I had a mate who coulndt track a deer to save himself, red blood on green foliage defeated him utterly

Originally Posted by SneedFeed

They can't cook a steak to save their life either because rare and well done is the same colour to them haha

shouldn't need to see the colour.cutting to look is for amateurs.

Been to a couple of different places over the last week and have yet to see another vehicle, love it when people go on holiday,

Originally Posted by SneedFeed

I seen a documentary once where they used a colorblind guy to spot certain illegal crops in the bush because they can acutely tell the difference between different types of green. So they can be good hunting buddies to have, just don't let them carry the rifle I guess

Pretty sure the ratio of colourblindness in men is really high, like 1:10 or something. I also read in WW2 the colourblind soldiers were found to be able to identify camouflaged areas better than normal sighted men as they could differentiate shades of the same colour much better.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

except there is something like 8% of the population who are red/green colour blind and will not see you as flouro at all.

I'm colourblind to buggery but fluoro colours stick out and contrast fine. But trying to find blood trails is a pain in the proverbial.

My missus reckons my choice in clothing colours leaves a lot to be desired too..

Originally Posted by HUNTY

Been to a couple of different places over the last week and have yet to see another vehicle, love it when people go on holiday,

True, best part about living in a shithole huh, all the cool kids go to Central

every town ,city in nz is a shit hole to someone, you just have to make the most of your local environment, i do hate the costal shit we have been having since September though,
But on a good side i am 30 minutes from packing the truck to feet hitting the beech leaves, and working 4 on, 4 off work shift allows me to take the pup for a walk a couple of times a week, she has 3 deer under the belt now and is showing a lot of promise.

Have hunted with a few different people who are colour blind. When it comes to blood tracking none of them are any good, but the same can be said for some people with full vision. Three of the colour blind ones can spot high contrast hi-viz clothing as good as anyone else, solid colours are a piece of piss to spot for two of them. One other guy I used to hunt with who had supposedly full vision often couldn’t spot an animal at fifty metres or less sometimes in the bush even if pointed out to him. Go figure.
One other point. Just because there’s no cars parked up doesn’t mean there’s no one else out and about. That sort of thinking leads to complacency.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Pretty sure the ratio of colourblindness in men is really high, like 1:10 or something. I also read in WW2 the colourblind soldiers were found to be able to identify camouflaged areas better than normal sighted men as they could differentiate shades of the same colour much better.

Interesting, there has to be a reason for such high ratios of color blindness in men only (as I understand it), high enough that there's likely one in every hunting/war band. Especially given that everything we hunt is color blind.

It may be compensation but from what I understand colourblind folk -yes, mostly men- have improved greyscale differentiation or can pick out shades of grey better than others

What that means in practice is that they (can) have better night sight and can spot a finer graduation in the colour scale that they can see ie a grey bunny at night will stick out like dogs bollocks to some colourblind people whereas full scale vision people will usually miss it

Like the field of dyslexia, the one word colourblind covers a large field of different situations so it's not one size fits all
I have been told that most male colourblindness is in the green/blue range but don't know for certain

What I do know is that colourblindness means you can't get a job as a train driver because they have different colour lights running through the same box as opposed to traffic lights with 3 light boxes

Were traffic lights made that way because some people are colourblind?

Originally Posted by 308

It may be compensation but from what I understand colourblind folk -yes, mostly men- have improved greyscale differentiation or can pick out shades of grey better than others

What that means in practice is that they (can) have better night sight and can spot a finer graduation in the colour scale that they can see ie a grey bunny at night will stick out like dogs bollocks to some colourblind people whereas full scale vision people will usually miss it

Like the field of dyslexia, the one word colourblind covers a large field of different situations so it's not one size fits all
I have been told that most male colourblindness is in the green/blue range but don't know for certain

What I do know is that colourblindness means you can't get a job as a train driver because they have different colour lights running through the same box as opposed to traffic lights with 3 light boxes

Were traffic lights made that way because some people are colourblind?

Our PLC scrteens at work are a nightmare for me...green and yellow, get away with you...its limiting alright.

Hunted with a grand son fairly recently in Kaimanawas...he was wearing a bright BLUE potae and I could track him pretty easily even in some tight crap stuff ....I find late sunny afternoon blaze orange dis appears in shadows and light...

I’ve found there’s quite a bit of variation in blaze orange even from the same companies. I bought a Stoney creek hat and it was quite dull compared to a mates. I kept it and bought another the same which was way more ‘blaze’. You got make sure when your buying it that it’s absolutely pinging orange. It’s made worse by sun fade. Another mate had a blaze hat that had faded to the color of a summer coated red deer. That wasn’t doing him any favors.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

I had a mate who coulndt track a deer to save himself, red blood on green foliage defeated him utterly

@John Duxbury I call bullshit. Only 8% of the population are colourblind. You only have one mate. The chance of Oscar being colour blind is infinitesimal.