Thread: Hunter shot in Kaimai Range near Te Aroha

Curious, has there been a single incident involving the Blue hi-vis yet?

p.s ive experienced that orange 4pm sun on actual deer looking precisely like orange hivis colour. Not a nice sight. I dunno about the yellow ones though

Yellow is not good for hi-viz, can't even see it in the bush most of the time, looks like vegetation with the sun on it.

Originally Posted by Dead is better

Curious, has there been a single incident involving the Blue hi-vis yet?

p.s ive experienced that orange 4pm sun on actual deer looking precisely like orange hivis colour. Not a nice sight. I dunno about the yellow ones though

Yeah I thought it was bullshit when I first heard that but then when I saw it, man it's crazy how similar it looks.somthing to do with the light coming through the bush makes it super bright orange

I can't see why you would wear bloody blaze orange in the bush, when it is been so obviously pointed out that at certain lights it resembles the colour of a fuckn deer. Orange works well out in the tussock when it's exposed to unfiltered light, but not in the bush. Give me blue any day if you want to be observed, as its a totally un-natural colour in the bush.

Originally Posted by northdude

Not trying to pick a fight but yea that's all good and well if your lucky enough to have your own bit of private land to shoot on and can control who's there at given times some of us aren't so lucky and can only go when time and work permits may as well go the full hog and ban shooting all together then no one will ever get shot again possibly a better idea might be doing a safety course when applying for a permit

That's cool as mate
It's just my opinon and a idea I had
I can also only hunt when time and work permits
I just choice to not hunt at Easter and was throwing out there as idea to see what people thought
Talk of banning hunting all together is just a dick move.
All for Hunter education to make it safer for all of us. I'd certainly like to think with all the young guys I've taken out over the last few years I've done a fair bit of Hunter education with first timers.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Originally Posted by gimp

Yellow is not good for hi-viz, can't even see it in the bush most of the time, looks like vegetation with the sun on it.

That's interesting and good to know. It stands to reason. It did work well on an overcast day in the open; but I hadn't thought about sunlight making it look like foliage etc

I wear orange blaze in the roar and hunting with mates or in high hunting pressure spots where I may run into other hunters. I would rather been seen than not. I feel a lot better I can see my mates and the dog easier.

It’s guys with the wrong mindset during the roar, they have already talked themselves into it, colour doesn’t matter, they in the thinking of

“ its the roar, I must get a stag, I can hear a stag, it must be a stag, I’m going to shoot a stag, I can here a stag coming, then there’s some movement?, next identified the movement but not the stag, now it’s point of no return the trigger is pulled!!!” Ohh shit!

Instead of of thinking the other way around “it’s a person, its a person I can hear, it’s a person coming until you can identifying a stag”

Its a person is what I'm thinking when in the bush I will even drop the rifle down and look without using the scope up to 3 or 4 times

Just don't get into the mindset that because you are in the middle of nowhere that there can't be another hunter around.

Originally Posted by outlander

Aaah...thanks for explaining that Gibo. I've only ever hunted privately owned farms, hence my limited local knowledge.

Just don't get in the mindset that because you are in the middle of nowhere there can't be hunter/hunters around.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Plenty of bush, just not a lot of easy bush so they get concentrated near road ends and walking tracks. Get 2-3 hours in off the tracks and you'll be a lot safer.

Agree with Gibo's advice. Just don't get into the mindset that because you're in the middle of nowhere there can't be other hunter/hunters close by.

Damn. Can't delete first one

Drill that point into them Allizdog haha

One thing funny, is that this Easter weekend was really not busy at all where I am hunting usually. And talking to another party of 3 who went to Kaimanawas for sika hunting, they have never seen the place so deserted.
It does not stop accidents from happening obviously but maybe the message that there ll be too many fuckwits over this Easter weekend has prevented many more to be put at risk.
I have personally chosen to hunt with a bow during the roar, I have significantly less chances of shooting someone else at least.

Ive seen the blaze orange deer thing..and are aware of it... loads of guys are red/green color blind so cant see it anyway....lots of different colors are good choice. hunting with only guys you can trust is good choice,trying to avoid public land over easter if you can is good choice,
oh and thought about it today while at work...this isnt a new thing..Philip Holden wrote of 2 incidents I can think of where he put scope on someone....first is in pack n rifle so its always been an issue.
take care out there.