Bad Camo for Hog Huntin'

[One Track]

Just a reminder. Those hogs look black when up against a hillside. Don't wear any black when yer huntin' hogs. Some knucklehead might mistake you for a pork tenderloin. Crazier things have happened.

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

Very True.....

 

[Shot]

Problem can be solved with wearing hunter orange. Most people think that this would give then away.

 

[BGH831]

I was told by an oldtimer that most animals were not capable of seeing the orange blaze color used. Anyone hear anything like that before?

 

[Speckmisser]

Originally posted by BGH831@May 31 2005, 11:57 AM
I was told by an oldtimer that most animals were not capable of seeing the orange blaze color used. Anyone hear anything like that before?

You heard right.

Although there's some debate about how extensive most animals' range of color vision is, the accepted thinking is that hunter orange isn't going to give you away.

It's a great idea to wear it, even if I'm not a stalwart practitioner. I have my own reasons, but they don't really hold much water in the light of logic. I'm just hard-headed.

 

[SDHNTR]

I was reluctantly made to wear orange back a few years on the Santa Cruz Island hunt. I can honestly say I don't think it any disadvantage at all.

 

[BLASTMASTER]

I'll tell you what. This last trip to CR gave the boys a real good lesson about wearing orange. We were watching a couple guys hunting a patch of thick brush. They were crawling through the pig tunnels on their hands and knees. We heard one of them shoot, so we decided to swing around to the back door, in case they scared something out. Well my older boy and I see something moving low to the ground, and heading for an exit trail. I point and say Looky there! and my boy starts to drop a bead. He got the gun about halfway down before I stopped him. In his inexperience, he must have thought looky there = get ready to shoot it. About a second later, one of the hunters crawls out yelling hey-hey! Full camo, and no orange.
After that, I reminded him to verify his target BEFORE taking aim, and both boys fast realized that if it were them in the bush without orange, they could have gotten shot. He really thought that guy was a pig on the run. I'm certain he wouldn't have fired until it came out of the bush, but he was wanting to aim in.

 

[easymoney]

I would agree with speckmisser, in that birds see color well but most big game animals have limited color vision. Wild pigs don't see very well at all, but they do see movement. Their sense of smell is the one to worry about, stay down wind and you will be able to walk up fairly close. Within bow range.
The hunter orange issue is one of hunter to hunter recognition. You won't get shot by any pigs...

 

[Bill in SD]

Most mammals are color blind. They see in shades of black and white.

Like for instance in training retrievers, dogs seem to see white and black best for retrieving and yellow or orange bumpers are used for blind retrieves.

The dogs see the orange and yellow bumpers, however they blend.

I think it has more to do with the "brightness" of the color that stands out more to say a pig.

Bill

 

[EvBouret]

My friend almost shot his dog once when we were hog hunting. It's a black scruffy haired dog with a little of airedale. Looks like a hog running through the bush. We woke up a mob of hogs and they were running around us, one ran straight by us on the trail we were standing on, we didn't even realize it until it was like 20 yards down the trail from us. Anyways, all the dogs were gone chasing, one dog his main lead dog George we could hear yipping, he only yips when he can see the hog. We heard something coming from upstream and my friend raised his 30-30. Took the safety off and almost shot his dog Buddha. Things in black can look a lot like hogs...

evan

 

[One Track]

I'll be wearin' this in two days.

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[HOGHUNTER714]

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I'll be wearin' this in two days.[/b]

I'll be wearin mine too

 

[arizona hunter]

I vote for orange, too. Here in Arizona we do not have to have it on, but I wear it for hunting everything except waterfowl-bear, deer, elk, javelina, quail, squirrel, rabbit.

More than once I've seen people using their rifle scope (instead of binoculars!) to see what something is. Bad, bad, bad. if we all wore orange no one without binos would need to check out a person with their scope.

 

[boarhunter67]

I read a study once where they tested deer's reaction to different colors. Blue was the most easily seen color by deer. Therefore, don't wear blue jeans.

 

[Timjackson]

Originally posted by boarhunter67@Jun 2 2005, 10:28 AM
I read a study once where they tested deer's reaction to different colors. Blue was the most easily seen color by deer. Therefore, don't wear blue jeans.

I dont put much faith in most of these "studies".. My uncle has worn blue jeans to hunt in every day of every season for the past 40 years and has never had a problem... Cover your scent and play the wind is more important for deer hunting... But, if I were hunting pigs with a lot of other people around, I would definitely wear orange!!!

 

[BGH831]

I like the looks of the knit cap there, Late deer season tends to get a bit chilly in the early morning!

 

[jindydiver]

A few years ago now a bow hunter was driving past some wheat in a field and saw some pigs, so he pulled up a side road and started a hunt on them. Very silly thing to do. The farmer came driving along the road and saw a dark shape moving through the wheat, so he jumped out with his .270 and shot it. You guessed it, it was the bow hunter crawling along in the wheat.