.…...Pa public game commission land?

http://read.nxtbook.com/pgc/huntingtrapping/20192020/fluorescent_orange_requiremen.html

Not required apparently but encouraged. During gun deer seasons I personally would chose to wear orange to jog, picnic or cut firewood as well as trap, it doesn't cost much and could mean that I live to haul the wood home.

I wear it during gun season while trapping so I don’t get shot more than anything. I don’t think I have to by law but I do anyways.

I wear orange when I check sets...no fun getting shot at.
You should be in the timber when the coyote guys start unloading their guns the bridge on one end, bullets going through trees over you, and they have no idea you are in the creek bottom at all.
I got things I still want to do in life and living is one of them.

Plus I figured they see me in orange they think I'm hunting deer or birds and not trapping.

Jim

I wouldn't wear any orange down your way.Someone might mistake you for a sign and shoot you.

Reason I asked was a couple years ago I got checked on land that the PGC was in the process of acquiring. After checking me out, (I had camo on because of trap thieves) he told me I have to wear orange when they get this ground. I was gonna question him more on it but was in a hurry. I haven't been on that end of my line since and don't know what to do. I guess I will call the main office. I will let you know what they say.

In 1979 I was checking fox and coon traps in a low swampy area. I't was very thick but saw several deer in front of me followed by the sound of a whizzing shot gun slug going by my ear ( you need to actually experience that sound to understand what I mean by whizzing). The next shot hit a sapling about 2 feet from my face. I dropped to my knees and starting yelling. The hunter must have run the other direction because I heard his truck start up and him taking off. I've never trapped without flo orange since that day.
WEAR IT!!

I had the same thing happen only it was deer hunting season, I was hunting AND had orange on.

I'm with Wade, always wear it during deer season.

I'll second Jim"s advice. Only I was on the giving side of the coyotes hunters shooting up a creek. Many years ago when I was in my very early 20s, we had a coyote cross the and heading for the creek 3/8 mile away. It was January. Snow everywhere, and cold, below zero. A bout 20 guys jumped out and unloaded every rifle they had. Coyote kept running. I put my dog on the track while everyone else flew around the section. While watching my dogs the landowner came out of the trees waving. Holy %$#@, what was he doing down there. DUCKING and diving for cover. I knew him and drove down to him. He wasn't really mad but he also wasn't really happy either. That was just about the last time I ever hunted with that bunch. Started callin with a shotgun about then. You never know when bullets could come whizzing by.

I try to avoid trapping during gun season around here, just to many problems. It only lasts a week anyway so i just stay outta the way. But, I do wear orange if I'm out and about during gun season, even just going to the mail box. lol

its common sense to wear it while ANY hunting season is in, IMO

once they are closed I don't wear any

No law here just common sense where i live. I always have it on. Lots of guys calling coyotes and lots of wide open country.

Hunting runs the month of November here and you would be taking your life in your hands not wearing it. Never much worried about competent hunters/woodsman but there are simply a lot of idiots running around the woods.

If I am checking a handful of water sets close to a busy road, I usually slip off my orange vest. If you are dressed in drab colors you simply are not notices as much if you are a few yards off the road in a swamp. Probably still taking a chance doing that. If it is a country road I wear the vest for the sake of heater hunters, while checking water sets close to the road.


Mac

About 1959, my Dad was cutting barrel-stave trees on land that is a full mile from the good road and 1/4 mile from a very small dirt road. By that time every body had started posting all land around here because of "city" hunters but one guy parked on the state high way and hiked that mile through woods and excitedly took three shots right at Dad who could see the shooter plain, Dad had shut down his chainsaw just moments before the shooting and he was wearing the common red safe hunting shirt of the time- no international/florescent/safety/hunter orange in those days. It ended with no casualties, but the same day we went to town bought every single Keep Out and No Trespassing sign available and posted all the neighbors land that hadn't yet been posted. How could someone not hear a chainsaw and how could a man in a red shirt be mistaken for a deer? The guy had never been in the woods before, was raised in K. C. and of course this before any Hunters Ed. Dad said that when the guy realized what happened he was sick, puked, and sorry. I have worn Orange all winter ever since they invented it, building fence looking for cows, cutting fire wood , trapping or going to town I wear some orange, although I think the new safety green is easier to see and shows up farther in the woods, evening summer. Some form of hunting season lasts all winter with just a day or two between the types of shooting.

If you need a law to tell you to wear orange during gun season, you shouldn't be out there either. Hello Darwin.

"If you need a law to tell you to wear orange during gun season, you shouldn't be out there either. Hello Darwin."
Well we could turn that around and say if you don't know what your target is you shouldn't be out there either. SURE, its a good idea and I put on an orange hat when Im in heavily hunted areas. But a law for 250 square inches, c'mon. I see you wear yours to town, now that's safety conscience right there.

Well is official now. The guy I talked to on the PGC line looked up the law and said no. I said I wondered why the guy that checked me out said I had to? He said I will call him right now. Turns out I have to wear an orange cap from nov 15 to dec 15 on their ground.

When I was a kid we wore red in rifle season. You would see a lot of red plaid coats and hats. First time I saw blaze orange a cousin had a cap that color. That night after supper all anyone could talk about was how easy it was to see Jims hat. Even at a distance. Bout 6-8 years later it was the law. There were a lot of mad hunters over that.

I remember the first blaze orange I ever seen was those hot seats and the jones style hats. Seems now its a fashion.

Can't imagine not wearing orange. For many reasons. Not getting shot for starters. 2 - If something happened to me it would be easier someone to find me. 3 - If you are wearing orange people think you are supposed to be there and not trying to hide. Less likely to think you are up to no good.