Orange blaze

[delta wolf]

I shot in Hungary this year and they were happy with a blaze hat or armbands.

 

[deerstalker.308]

I bought a deerhunter blaze orange "teddy bear" fleece jacket for hunting in Germany...... there's no missing me on a drive, or even several weeks after the hunt, I left bright orange fluff everywhere I went, so much so, several weeks after, a friend of mine was on the same drive and sent me a photo of their highseat, they knew I'd been in the same stand by all the orange fluff attached to the seat!
Bloody awful for shedding, it's in every vehicle, bag, piece of Velcro etc but I was at least visible!

 

[Lateral]

The Spanish hunters have a terrible reputation in Portugal, notorious for moving off their pegs, and walking 10's of yards forward, but I think my favorite, was a guy on the peg next to me, placed among the trees, wearing full camo, who walked forward 30-40m. Thank goodness we had a thermal spotter with us,, and managed to find where he was !

 

[SamHuntVic]

You will have to wear blaze in Hungary, as you do in most other European countries, if you do not wear it and there is an accident, your insurance will be invalid, animals do not see it anyway.

Ungulate animals are the ones that don't see it as bright orange. To them it's a sepia colour or shade of grey depending on the animal. Birds of course see it and can harass some hunters in the bush.
Sad to say resistance to blaze here in Oz is still strong but gradually being accepted through education.
Grant.

 

[swipka777]

agree

 

[Hunt-Inter]

Sportsman have good orange blaze Deerhunter fleeces reduced to £45 from £135 and rain coats also.

 

[smullery]

I have done “other” colours than orange in Portugal, Spain and France and it seems to not be well received.
As most of the bullets will be shot from guns of non British Shooters.................

Stan

P.S.

Why whine about a cheapskate tabard colour.......

 

[Freeforester]

Yeah, it appears that the turkey hunters across the pond, and some of our European friends are a little less blessed with sang-froid, and tend to ask questions afterwards. Went several times to Norway for moose hunting, and most years someone got shot dead in the opening week (elsewhere in the country, I might add!) by another, who was usually found to have been worse the wear for the aquavit; it is very much a sense of great national occasion, think the Glorious Twelfth, on steroids, and celebrated (with copious toasts) by most of the Adult male population, even given that they take their Safety briefings and training very, very seriously. Reminds me of the days when otherwise uninterested farm lads were expected to carry a gun at the annual hare shoots, or otherwise usually well-composed gentlemen sporting Guns when they were added to the line when roe drives still took place - too many attempts at shooting through the line seen!

One celebrated Spanish Monteria Rifle I met was once shot with the 9.3, very luckily for him it skiffed round his ribcage rather than hit him squarely - still, rather him than me!

See 'A Father's Advice', and make it mandatory for every sportsman and woman to do a paper on it explaining what it all means, so they get the full picture, but you cannot beat the father/mentor to son/pupil 1:1 instilling of firearm safety, IMO.

 

[Dorsettaff]

Just a word to the normal shooters out there. Being colour blind Orange does not jump out in a wood full of Autumn leaves, HiVis yellow does.

Alas Hi Viz yellow is not so good when there is snow on the ground!