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Yes I believe the archery death was the impetuous for this discussion, and my sense is that’s all it is currently? Maybe @grasshopper has some info.They need to be protected from the muzzleloader hunters
Is there a link or something of where we share our opinion?
The proposed options 1 and 2 are only talking about making the blaze orange requirement during the traditional muzzleloader season west of I-25. So roughly 9 days in the middle of September.The rifle bear season overlaps for the entire frigging month. The last several fatalities due to hunting negligence have been caused by nonresident hunters. We should ban them first. PA, WV, and Minnesota were the last 3 I believe.
One of the survey questions asks if you would be willing to be required to take such an online course to get your license. You might have your wish.What I don't see in any of the proposals is additional hunter safety/education requirements for people participating in primitive seasons. I think that should be a prerequisite to a license for these seasons due to the nature of hunting during the rut and the proximity with which people are engaging animals and each other.
Am I the only one who sees this worded like you as an archery hunter would have to take the course to avoid wearing orange? are they teaching you matrix moves to dodge bullets? don't call in an effective manner?One of the survey questions asks if you would be willing to be required to take such an online course to get your license. You might have your wish.
While you are certainly correct in most of what you said, there is proof that wearing orange clothing does indeed reduce accidents. You can look at any number of states and their hunter accidents before and after the law went into affect in their state. It does help and even if it only saves one accident from happening, it is worth it.You can't hold everyone's hands all the time. Hunter shootings happen during rifle season when everyone's wearing orange too. If orange made that much of a difference, you'd have deaths on deaths where orange isn't required. I think the biggest issue here is lack of training, gun safety and the absolute obsession to kill something. Some guys out East literally admit to shooting at sound and movement... LITERALLY. Then you have guys on here being adamant that binoculars are useless and a waste of money/precious ounces and claim to scope everything that moves.
I personally wear either a vest or hat when walking in/out of the bush during archery and ML season here and will have a flashlight on as soon as it gets dark. I also wear a big ass blaze panel on my coyote brown backpack, just in case. Too many idiots around who point and shoot without thinking. A guy was shot a few years ago here in Sk during or immediately after shooting light. He was wearing orange and red, head to toe in the middle of a field. People re-enacted the same conditions with the exact same clothing and at the same time of day. Every single time you could clearly tell from the shooter's POV that it was a hunter in the field, the guy shot anyway for whatever reason claiming it was an elk I believe.
You're not going to solve this problem with orange, you will by removing careless idiots from the equation and alas, this will never happen.
great question. seems extremely overkill to prevent the accident from happening. Like @SaskHunter stated, you can't stop stupid from still happening and any amount of orange wont matter in those scenarios.why is CO so hung up on 500 Square inches of orange?