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My Samauri is camo.

My Samauri is camo.

RiesigJay,

Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but I just found this thread. The reason I wear camo is one of the guys I know who was shot was wearing blaze orange. I don't know what the other guy was wearing.

Another guy I know who was shot at was me. It happened long before camo or blaze orange was available. Forty-nine years ago my wife made a very bright shirt for me. It had a red sleeve with a half yellow chest and back. The other half of the chest and back was red and the other sleeve was yellow. Very obviously not a deer. A bullet hit near me and then I heard the shot. I looked up from where the shot came and, like in the movies, saw light glint off the barrel. I yelled at the guy and got behind some trees.

I wear camo to be concealed from the other hunters.

The fallacy with that is the idiots who take shots at anything that moves.

The irony is Wrongman glassing with his rifle scope, which he admits doing...

I wonder if he's the dumbass who shot his friend?

The fallacy with your thought is the idiots don't see someone wearing camo as easily they see the bright colors. I was already shot at while wearing bright. It has not happened since I stopped wearing bright.

I can tell you of 1 case where orange definitely saved a man's life. My sister's FIL was watching a buck walk through some quakies. As it moved through a clearing, he was just ready to shoot at the neck when he caught a slight glimpse of orange. It was his partner's cap. He was packing out the deer on his back with the head hanging over his shoulder. The orange was the top of his cap that barely stuck up enough to see over the neck. Scary!!!

And the fallacy here is that there are "hunters" [sic] that will take "sound shots" even if they don't see anything.

I have long theorized that once in a great while brain cells do a dyslexic reversal in an excitable hunter who is intently looking for game, and his brain suddenly shouts, "ORANGE! SHOOT!"

It is my attempt to figure out why once in a while a hunter in orange in wide open is killed by a bullet from well within visual range.

I'm sure hunter orange spares lives and injuries in far greater numbers than such an anomoly might cause, even if my theory is correct. I wear hunter orange where required by law and slectively in other situations: while packing game, in an area with other hunters, or working cover with a partner so he can keep track of me easier.

Wow. This is the most bat-schit crazy line of thinking I've ever heard.

Because there are soooo many guys out there that willingly shoot at other people these days.....THOSE are the guys you gotta watch out for, not the accidents...no sirree...it is the guys that take aim at you on purpose.

Holy crap, you simply cannot get enough states between me and that guy.

I thought that happened only in magazine photos. It borders on mental illness to carry a buck over your shoulder without camoing the deer.

My uncle was shot by his "friend" who was "sound" hunting. Fortunately the bullet went between the ulna and the radial. It took years to fully heal.

Are you talking about shooting at someone wearing bright clothes? I agree with you.

You Rich, you are nuttier than squirrel [bleep].

Why would you be needing to hide from foreman, wardens and land owners, Allen?

Every now and then I read something that is clearly, Award winning. Holy [bleep].



As the First Place Trophy shows, you're the expert on Mental Illness.

I can only hope the DMV has revoked your driving privileges..

Seriously, you own firearms?

Question: How do you camo a deer you're carrying over your shoulder?

Do you cut down a pine tree and strap it to the deer so it looks like you're packing out a Xmas tree?

Buy the deer his own set of Mossy Oak camo pants and jacket? (Doing double duty if you buy Scentlock, then you won't smell like a dead deer to all those hunters with really good senses of smell...in case he shoots at not only sound but smell).

Maybe dress the deer up like your ex-wife, so everyone thinks you're simply on your way to bury the body?

I would really like to see pictures of this method in action.

You don't wonder about someone's mentality who carries a deer over his shoulder during hunting season?

I carry a camo T-shirt and stretch it over the antlers and head.



I will leave the obvious mental picture of concealed deer antlers for you imagine.