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Paul,
Now WTF would you shoot a little thing like that?It's still got milk on it's lips for cryin out loud!

WB.

is that a price tag sticker still stuck to the call?

That deer was a BEAST.

The sucker looks as big as a fuggin shetlin pony.That's bigger than a lot of mulies....

WB.

Nice buck. Cool rifle.What is the caliber and rig that Paul W was using there?

Jeff- You have to admit that you get a little 'Monkish' on some of the small details. No, you don't have to pick blue tape, but I can almost garantee you that it isn't going to affect you hunting success. But, you can use other colors, I use black. You mentioned bowhunting, I always fletch my arrows with a very bright color and yes I've used blue in the past. Never seemed to be a problem yet. IMO, you are worrying way too much about something that is very minor...

Maybe it's just the Sitka's that are colorblind...

I too, had a deer jump on the hood of a 56 Chevy two tone blue BelAir quite few yrs ago. Course if it didn't see the Chevy,it probably didn't see it was blue

Darn deer have taken out several squads with the red and blue lights flashin'...maybe it's an attractant...Let's do a study....grin...

NO tape is cheaper..

I feel a little better now, one of the McSwirly's I ordered will look a lot like this or was your success due to the extremely dense cover?

BTW Paul, that's a freaking HOG. Good work buddy, especially after handicapping yourself with that blue stock...

Pointer & Paul... SWEET Blactails, both of them. There ain't a prettier deer than a mature Blacktail buck. ~josh

Pointer, fair enough... but to be clear here, all I did with my initial post on the subject was mention that research has shown that deer see blue very well, and therefore a guy might factor that into their thinking WRT what color they taped their muzzle.

I didn't say it was gonna make every deer in the county take off runnin'! :-)

That's gorgeous country you are hunting there. Words fail me as far as trying to explain how different that is, from where I hunt. Maybe I'll post a picture of the woods out past my back field. If I were hunting country like that I wouldn't spend one second worrying about the color of my muzzle or the sound of the safety on my rifle for that matter.

-jeff

If anyone is truly interested in how deer see, as evidenced by research, simply type "deer vision blue" into your Google window and spend some time reading the results.

Here's a nice link:

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

Here's a couple quotes from it:

"The colors of earthly objects are mostly browns, tans, greens and yellows. To an animal with dichromatic color vision, a sportsman wearing garments that strongly reflect short wavelength light would stand out against these backgrounds like a ripe red tomato on a green vine."

"Because of the deer's high relative sensitivity to short wavelength light, the presence of blue, violet and U-V components would make a garment stand out as both bright and colored against natural backgrounds. Those same components could be barely noticeable to humans." Dr. Jay Neitz "

I am confidant that if any rational person went and read some of those links, they'd have to agree that blue is a poor choice of color to intentionally put on the barrel of your rifle- especially if a guy hunts close quarters.

I'm equally confidant that the usual suspect will just make fun of this post rather than admit that I have a point.

:-)

-jeff

But realistically Jeff, how fine do you think deer vision is? Can you pick out a half inch dot in foliage 25 yards away?

Jeff-

I thought this was a worthwhile link too:


http://attainkarma.com/scotts/Picture4.jpg

That's amusing.

We were in the Spokane Dejavu several years ago. The lighting which was all 'black' light revealed a rather humorous stain about mid belly on my horny friend's seemingly clean shirt......

We all got a good laugh at his expense..


Forgot to add he was wearing a blue shirt.

Jeff, the color of tape I use on the end of a barrel would be about ZERO on my list of things that can and will spook game...

it's a Howa 1500 chambered in 264WM. Mickey Coleman put it together for me a couple of years ago. that was the first animal i shot with it. it has to be the best shooting rifle i own and i own quite a few rifles...