It's Time to Wear Orange!
While hunting in my local state park for a few GeoCaching spots I almost walked into a few bow hunters. IT's time to wear Orange.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
Ah yes, celebrate the color of autumn...
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We knew thatOriginally Posted by Wise Old Owl
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/show...ghlight=orange
I'm so confused, I'm not sure if I lost my horse or found a rope.
Yep, I'll be wearing this next week unless it's too warm.
excellent timing for this reminder
I was putting a keen edge on some broadheads this past week...but you've go no worries from me unless you are a big gobbler and tis not that season yet...anyone here use FOBs on their arrows? I'm looking for a drop away rest that is FOB friendly....
Start out slow, then slow down.
You are right MM I have no worries, Here in Pa though the average used to be about 15 per year for our fine state. Then last year a 13 year old shot himself in the foot in the park behind me. But that doesn't mean it can't happen to a hiker. There are a few short sighted ill informed lot out there. I posted the tread, to keep folks informed - And even I forgot when the first day was.
Case in Point
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stori...W.f2631a7.html
Oh MM ask your local supplier for a drop away for FOB's,
http://www.bowhunting.net/artman/pub...on_-_FOB.shtml
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
To learn what hunters are hunting, go to ATC's Hunting Season Guide. Their site was down when I sought to verify my link, but I'll try again later and fix it if it needs fixing.
Just tried the link. No luck yet.
As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11
Working - PA Oct. 4-Nov. 15 and Dec. 26-Jan. 10. One antlered deer per hunting license year. One antlerless deer with each required antlerless license.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
Pennsylvania information
ATC's website is still down or perhaps down again?It will be up again soon.
Anyone who desires to know when hunters will be afield in Pennsylvania can click on 2008-2009 Hunting Seasons and Bag Limits. For more detailed information, select the appropriate *.pdf files here. Those who have broadband may want to try out the nifty book feature.
I had no trouble...Oh yea it down, no idea.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
The orange really isn't to distinguish yourself from other animals it's to alert a hunter that someone is possibly in the range of fire. Deer cannot see orange, thus the reason why it is so widly used. Most hunter's are not trigger happy in fact we are quite precise as to what we are shooting at. But. ... . stuff happens I guess.
Dont you wish turkeys were color blind!
but that could take out most of the challenge.
Start out slow, then slow down.
When you consider how many people hunt every year it is an amazingly safe sport. Over 30 years of hunter safety courses has done a great job. I think it was in the 1970s that they made attending a hunter safety course a requirment for getting your license in NH. No one gets rich volunteering to teach hunter safety...it's just a good thing to do. Everyone who gets a NH hunting license knows the 10 commandments of hunter safety. Every tragic hunting accident is a result of a violation of the hunter safety 10 commandments.
i know PA is the worst place to hike during hunting season. more hunters per capita than any other state. i did the laurel highlands trail during opening weak of bear season over thanksgiving this past year and felt like a target. im headed back to PA for my annual thanksgiving week-long hike this year, and I will be decked out head to toe in blaze orange.
I can never figure out why everybody is so worried about bowhunters.. I quit gun hunting years ago. Maximum range is 40 yards. Gun season, absolutely wear orange but bow season, not necessary.
I just don't want to be the amazingly hapless unsafe victim!
Here are PA's released statistics which are pretty good until you see most folks get accidently shot in the woods in broad daylite.
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/v...a=461&q=171538
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
Not surprising, since with few exceptions legal hunting occurs only during daylight hours.
Excellent advice. And this year I'm substituting blaze orange fleese, for the blaze orange cotton sweat shirt, I've worn past hunting seasons. The cotton is too stiff and bulky. Yup. I'm just trying to show that I'm not a complete cotton nut.
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All my hiking shirts are orange. That way I don't have to remember when hunting season starts and stops.
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