beachbunny
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Nothing like having the guv'ment tell you what to wear on your own property!
Maryland changes longstanding rule on hunter orange
Maryland changes longstanding rule on hunter orange
How many people are actually getting shot while hunting? My impression is that it's not exactly an epidemic. I hate this kind of nanny-state bull crap. If you want to wear some orange, more power to you, but I just don't think injury statistics justify codified enforcement of wearing orange. Then again, where I hunt, I generally don't come across a lot of other hunters to begin with.
How many people are actually getting shot while hunting? My impression is that it's not exactly an epidemic. I hate this kind of nanny-state bull crap. If you want to wear some orange, more power to you, but I just don't think injury statistics justify codified enforcement of wearing orange. Then again, where I hunt, I generally don't come across a lot of other hunters to begin with.
When I was a kid hunting private farmland, I had a shotgun slug buzz past my head, close enough to get my attention and it was NOT an enjoyable experience.How many people are actually getting shot while hunting? My impression is that it's not exactly an epidemic. I hate this kind of nanny-state bull crap. If you want to wear some orange, more power to you, but I just don't think injury statistics justify codified enforcement of wearing orange. Then again, where I hunt, I generally don't come across a lot of other hunters to begin with.
New York:"There were 29 incidents in 2014 among hunters and one fatality. Consider that in 1931 some 72 hunters were shot to death. In 1960, there were 552 hunters who shot each other.
PA shooting accidents:
1960: 53.56 per 100,000
1986: 10.78 per 100,000
1992: 8.76 per 100,000
2014: 3 per 100,000
Mandatory hunter education for first-time hunters began in 1959, and the required use of fluorescent orange in many hunting seasons, which started in 1982 for hunting deer and small game.
I like to have at least some orange on. One of the best things, I've found, is orange gloves - people tend to move their hands most and the orange makes it easy enough to spot. I also carry a blaze orange handkerchief. A white moving hanky or kleenex invites someone to look at you through a scope."While hunting is safer than ever, accidents can still happen," Seggos said. "It is important to remember that every hunting-related shooting incident is preventable. We urge every hunter going afield this year to wear hunter orange. It's the smart thing to do."
This year's report indicated that eight of the people involved in [the six] multi-party incidents were not wearing hunter orange.
With approximately 500,000 licensed hunters spending an estimated 10 to 15 million days afield each year, New York continues its trend of declining hunting-related shooting incidents, with the incident rate (incidents per 100,000 hunters) declining almost 80 percent since the 1960s. The past five-year average is down to 3.5 incidents per 100,000 hunters, compared to 19 per 100,000 in the 1960s
How many people are actually getting shot while hunting? My impression is that it's not exactly an epidemic. I hate this kind of nanny-state bull crap. If you want to wear some orange, more power to you, but I just don't think injury statistics justify codified enforcement of wearing orange. Then again, where I hunt, I generally don't come across a lot of other hunters to begin with.
Thus I am guessing the real reason for the change is so dog walkers, joggers et. al can see the hunters.
Nah, the drones with thermal cameras are better for that.And don't forget so law enforcement (wardens) can keep track of you.
In Wisconsin there are several people shot every year. Probably a death every other year. And blaze orange is required.
I am all about individual rights and less government control...but not in this case.
I don't want to ruin someone's life because I was wearing camo and they took a poke at a buck and I was shot and killed and the inverse of course. The shooter has to deal with an accident that could have been prevented for the rest of his life.
Midwest and East there are a ton more hunters in thick country...
Seatbelts are good. Blaze orange is good.