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I cannot understand people believing blaze orange is somehow going to effect their hunting success. I’m a bow hunter I hunt with a real bow not a crossbow like a trans faq and I don’t even wear camouflage. I regularly kill deer at 10 yards and less. Why some man boobed , mouth breather with a rifle that plans to take pot shots at deer at 300 yards is concerned with blaze orange is beyond me. But then again these are probably the same morons buying camo socks to sit in a plywood treehouse to shoot at fawns?

What people don't realize is that orange has a very distinct odor to which deer are particularly sensitive. A single orange cap placed near a heavily traveled deer trail will result in a new trail, beginning 1/2 mile from the cap and by-passing it, always at a minimum of 1/2 mile away.

I cannot understand people believing blaze orange is somehow going to effect their hunting success. I’m a bow hunter I hunt with a real bow not a crossbow like a trans faq and I don’t even wear camouflage. I regularly kill deer at 10 yards and less. Why some man boobed , mouth breather with a rifle that plans to take pot shots at deer at 300 yards is concerned with blaze orange is beyond me. But then again these are probably the same morons buying camo socks to sit in a plywood treehouse to shoot at fawns?

But then again these are probably the same morons buying camo socks to sit in a plywood treehouse to shoot at fawns?

Orange is less relevant where most people hunt on leased land in blinds or stands and don’t move around. Now, 40 some odd years ago around here when almost everyone used dogs, hunted on the ground, bucked brush following dogs or getting to dogs, and people hunted pretty much wherever they wanted, private property or not it was a much bigger deal and much more needed.

The only times locally I can think of people getting shot with something other than up close personal unsafe gun handling, was a kid who shot another kid on a sound shot. The victim was wearing orange but in a thicket. There have been a few instances where people were pretty much randomly struck at a distance. Orange didn’t or wouldn’t help much there either.

What people don't realize is that orange has a very distinct odor to which deer are particularly sensitive. A single orange cap placed near a heavily traveled deer trail will result in a new trail, beginning 1/2 mile from the cap and by-passing it, always at a minimum of 1/2 mile away.

What people don't realize is that orange has a very distinct odor to which deer are particularly sensitive. A single orange cap placed near a heavily traveled deer trail will result in a new trail, beginning 1/2 mile from the cap and by-passing it, always at a minimum of 1/2 mile away.

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Sorry Shaman, couldn't help myself.

I'm throwing out the bullshit flag. Are you claiming that deer smell COLORS? How do they reaction to purple or pink?

We have areas with lots of hikers and bikers. They're the ones who need it.

As romantic as that sounds, when was the last time you heard af a non-hunter being shot by a hunter (that wasn’t related)?

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not disagreeing with you. It just doesn’t happen as often as we might expect it to I don’t think.