Bowhunting with blaze orange

[Cootling]

I can now add that my wife and I shot 2 more nice bucks (like last year, see page 1) with our bows this year during our rifle season, both while wearing solid blaze orange.  Hers was 5 yards, mine was 20.  We were in tree stands, but pretty low (<6 feet above eye level).  Had other bucks close, including some while we were standing on the ground, and didn't have any trouble being seen.  I have no reservations at all about bowhunting in blaze orange.

[bad arrow]

Its still gun and blaze orange here this week. Im still hunting with my longbow though.... Phil

[SELFBOW19953]

Blaze orange is required in Delaware during ANY gun season.  I have never had any problems with deer, but squirrel must have color vision-they have to know what that orange blob is.  I don't mind the orange near as much as I mind the sound of gunshots!!!

[Jerry Jeffer]

[Mudd]

I will get some pictures and post them of my hunter orange vest.

I did my best to make it with a 3D effect. I bought a new hooded hunter orange jacket or sweat shirt type thingy. Then I cut the sleeves off and used them to make small strips of hunter orange that I sewed onto the front.

It kind of reminds me of a hunter orange ghuillie.

God bless,Mudd

[Guru]

Here's a coyote I killed last fall with "Miss Faith Dryad", opening day of gun season hear in NY...

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later on I had a flock of turkeys come in 9I mean right under me)and act totally oblivious to me in my tree while wearing my orange. Never had them act so "tame". Maybe they knew the season was closed and I was no threat    

[59Alaskan]

Took one last year with a bow at 20 yards (before I was in to trad though) during youth gun where we must wear an orange vest.  

I hope to do the same this weekend which is our youth gun.  I don't have anything yet this season.

Also have had deer at <10 yards while I sat on a log with orange on.  They looked right at me.  I had a baseball style hat on, glasses, and a blaze orange "camo" vest.  No, I didn't attempt the slightest movement.

[gregg dudley]

Wear it and hate it.  I know it does NOT spook deer, but it is kind of like playing a radio in the woods to me...unnatural. I have killed plenty of deer while wearing it, I just don't like it. I usually wear a stocking cap in cold weather so I don't have to see it.  

Camo blaze is not legal where I hunt.

[John Scifres]

I had 12 deer within bow range this weekend while hunting on the ground, in a blaze orange hat.  2 does walked within 5 yards of me while I was sitting next to a dead doe, smoking a cigar, wearing my orange.  One doe stood 20 yards downwind of me for 10 minutes as I smoked, chattered like a squirrel, buck grunted and finally simply had a conversation with her.  thanking her for a couple of her herd-mates for my freezer  

[rolltidehunter]

we have to wear it as well. we are required to wear a vest and a hat. i feel so silly wearing it. i hunt on our family farm so i always know who is there and who isnt. i prob shouldnt do it but when i get up in my tree i take my orange off. and put it in my back pack. before i climb down i put it back on.

[Stumpkiller]

Yes.  Any time I hunt state lands I wear at least some orange.  

Years ago another bowhunter and I took a bunch of B&W images of plaids, camos, blaze orange, various solids, etc.  Blaze is an indescript light gray and was much better than TreBark - which just looks like a big, dark man.  I have avoided dark camos ever after.

[Bent Rig]

.. they say that Deer can only see mostly  blues and yellows

[Stumpkiller]

I found this (and borrow it shamelessly)

 

Not bad, assuming deer see in B&W (with some blue & into the IR spectrum, I am told)

While we see it as: