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I think the column of air being pushed in front of the bullet blows the tape/balloon out of the way before the bullet gets to the muzzle.

Read it and weep, boys.

http://www.huntingnet.com/articles/article_detail.aspx?articles_id=579

http://home.adelphia.net/~geffert/deervis.htm

Do your homework before you get all pissy next time.

I wouldn't want a blue piece of tape on the muzzle of my rifle for reasons I described. There's better choices.

-jeff

Jeff,

At least the first article talks about ultra-violet blue, a wavelength out beyond the end of what humans can typically see. If you look at it you'll see that the clothes we wear may actually be glowing blue if we don't take certain precautions to avoid it. Of course, at the end, they sell a product which "helps" with that. I usually take sales pitches with a grain of salt. But heck, I'd rather miss an opportunity due to a deer seeing me than blow the end off the barrel - or worse.


There really is nothing like watching a fellow miss an opportunity virtually in his lap due to a fouled barrel/chamber/bolt to realize the value of a simple piece of tape over the muzzle. Who cares what color it is. Use orange for all I care if you are a felon and want to try to hide the fact that you are carrying a rifle.

I'd suggest green tape for you....it'll match your knowledge of all things hunting and shooting

I've had deer walk as close to me while wearing my blue/black plaid Filson Double Mackinaw, as when wearing full camo. Guess they were either color blind, didn't read the book, or didn't care there was a little more blue in their environment. Blue sky and water must drive the buggers nuts. Rocket scientists they ain't, and I doubt they can cipher the connection between a piece of blue tape and the toter's ill-will. Unless of course you're using your rifle for semaphoring.

Wht: they probably thought you was just a big bruise!

Scotch #88 - the electricians friend. Good in hot or freezing weather (in case you want to use it to wrap a wire joint).

Scotch 88 is the only electrical tape that our company buys,because it remains pliable and sticks even in low temperatures,unlike most cheaper tapes.

How's this for homework? Screwed, blued and tattooed....



Blue rifle, blue shirt, blue eyes, blue sky. Guess he didn't read the articles.

Knowing trumps guessing........

yes i put tape on depending on weather conditions I never noticed and loss of accuracy

Nice deer, mid August?

Which rifle is that one?

Are you really suggesting that a piece of tape that measures less than half an inch will make the difference between a deer spooking and not?

How sharp do you think their eyesight is?

+1

Of which you've offered none.

It is well-known that deer are scared of blue sky. Case closed.

As for the tape, I have used it in all sorts of hunting conditions, for all sorts of reasons, for keeping snow and dust out of the bore, for protecting the muzzle while in a saddle scabbard or when it is resting on the floor of a pickup, and for keeping the bore from rusting when hunting in really wet weather. It works for all those purposes, and beats balloons for some.

I have also tested it at the range and it has zero effect on accuracy, velocity or anything else. The only negative I have ever witnessed was when a piece of blown-off tape hit an African tracker standing maybe 5 feet to my right after I fired a .375 at a wildebeest. It stung, but since it didn't break the skin, the tracker survived.

Many of my rifles have a few inches of tape still wrapped around the barrel right behind the muzzle right now, where it rests patiently, awaiting hunting season.

I'll offer this Jeff-
I have a few acquaintances that can't wait to bless me with their recently aquired knowledge from the last magazine article they've read or by watching a TV program aimed at selling product. If they've read it or seen it, it must be gospel ---- it's no coincidence they're all pi$$ poor hunters.

More time doing, less time reading, talking and typing.

Jeff

I gotta agree with whats already been said about using blue tape.

an lets just say that these deer do see the tape, How many deer have you saw while hunting were watching you but just pulled back into the brush, waiting for you to pass on by? Even if deer can supposedly see the color "blue" it doesnt mean its goona spook them,

Im also thinkin that if that deer can see your tape, then it has allready got you pegged for what you are

What a tempest in a teapot ya'll have whipped up...

It's simple. Research seems to show that deer see blue well.

Therefore, on a thread about muzzle tape, when someone mentions using blue tape, it's worth considering that perhaps blue is not the ideal color to use.

(Imagine how obvious someone dressed in camo would be, to us, if they had blaze orange tape on the muzzle of their rifle, fer instance.. that orange dot would really stand out)

And that's it! Sheesh. Go tape your muzzles <g>.

-jeff

Deer also see sticks real well. I take it I should return my Mossy Oak? I know that bastard could see my Buick - but I still got him with it. Wonder if it was the wrong color to scare him off?

Considering blue is common enough (look up) I ain't fretting it.

The Cult of Blue tape is alive and well with pictures to hang, ain't no starvin' hunters because of said use. Now I do know plenty of starvin' guys who can't see game due to their nose buried in Field and Stream....

Looks like blue didn't spook this one.......