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Hey everyone.
Just got a gsp, and being brown with white spots looks a bit too much like a deer for my liking. (worried about other hunters, not me....)
Looking to try find a blaze orange or blue coat made out of light material? Can only find the polar fleece Ridgeline ones that I don't think would be ideal.
Has anyone found any other good ones maybe like a mesh or other light material?
Thanks.
I see Stoney Creek do and orange blaze one. Jones coat.
Depends on what the dog is doing ie where your using him.
buy a blue blaze stoney creek air mesh top, bit of velcro for the belly strap.Get your mates wife or mother on the sewing machine. If you go blaze orange you might as well not put a coat on.
Dirty blaze orange would be closer to the colour of a deer than the dogs natural colour.
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Comes in blue orange pink looks good.
Thanks everyone. Didn't see those stoney Creek ones in my search for some reason. Will look in to those
Go pink :thumbsup: will be the go for the true vicious mutt:XD:
But be sure to strip the dog for photo shoots, especially if one intends to post on forums.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
yip pink sticks out like doggie danglies...so does blue...I have in the past used bright blue spray can dairy cow tail paint...it comes off eventually.mate has border terriers...colour of a hare and a little smaller...my big black bitch mistook mates dog for a rabbit last time we were out and tried to retrieve it LMFAO.
@Jared The stoney creek sizes are all up the shit. like a large is for a great dane or hand bag dog. Cant remember which way around it is know. They are made out of polar fleece. Not suited while on a hunt. more suited for at the hut or while sitting on a clearing on a cold day
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-trimmed.html
Have you guys seen this?!:XD:
Yeah just saw that they are fleece too. bugger.
Haha that's hardcase Sideshow :)
I like the look of the blue blaze, stands out the best in the bush I reckon. Fluro green stands out too since it looks like an unnatural green colour. Always looks best when it's new, so not a bad Idea to replace or repaint fairly regularly to keep it bright.
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This is a stoney creek on a recent cold wet day, this thread made me think about it and look back at it think I'll go blue asap.
Yep it's fleece has worn it on warmer days than this but not a summer coat.
She is a 28 kg gsp X gwp the cot is a Med if she was any bigger it needs to be a large
Attachment 119740 my boy in blue! From Stoney creek
Looks good!
Yeah as per comments above, you'll need to be careful with the fleece ones mate. Some short-haired dogs are fine if they are worked close and not casting out and back all day, but a couple of the ones I've worked with wearing fleece hi-viz jackets like the Stoney Creek type have a tendency to get way too hot (and they don't know it until its a problem). No way would I work a dog with one of those types outside of cold winter weather, working dogs aren't designed for added insulation when its warmer.
I've just tried to find the company in Aus that makes the lightweight mesh blaze orange or blue jackets, the deer dogs I hunted with in Victoria wore them and they're great. No idea what they are called. They make hunting ones with no reflective strips. May have even been an Alibaba product, who knows. Google a bit and you'll find them.
Have a look at the Getty dog fleece. Not bad.
But for older dogs a bit of a hassle to get them in and out of.
Also not in blaze.
Attachment 119754:XD: for those that want blaze blue:thumbsup:
go into $2 shop and find a safety vest...cut it up and alter it to suit...heck a strip tied to colar is better than nothing...as is a couple of turns of insulation type tape around tail....
Yep, couldn't tell the difference from that pic of the orange blazed dog and the carcass, which was which?
Fleece no good for my GWP x Huntaway (50/50), overheat in seconds and will head for any water source to sit and roll in.
Yep, done as Mickey describes. I got the yellow vest and chopped it into strips for collar and it works well. Have a blue Stoney Creek Jones coat for winter, but warmer weather its the fluro collar treatment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
The farming stores have Velcro bands about 2 in wide ,calf markers i think they call them,in very bright colours,have used them for years,gave up on vests as my gsp used to get tangled up in thick bush.
Blaze blue for me. Stoney creek polar fleece coat I think it is.
Just a blaze buff/neck sleeve works pretty good.got sick of losing jacketshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...368fa6b3c3.jpg
@Jared, I have my dogs with wide as in two and a half inch, Nato blue collars ... I have never liked the idea of those coats for them as I would worry myself silly that they would get caught up in the rough...
I got a plain mesh blaze and copied using vivid my stoney creek Fleece camo pattern onto it - To break it up.
We need to keep repeating the message to IDENTIFY THE TARGET, keep it in the front of our minds also. Because a dog trotting around/stalking in the bush IS NOT a deer. AND USUALLY within metres of that DOG is a Hunter also. The only encounter I have had stalking in the bush the other hunters had heard us, then seen my blaze. I thought I had heard low voices so I yelled out and we met up for a chat. It seemed my blaze orange had worked well in this instance.
Plenty of ventilation. They get pretty hot quickly.
