I saw no hunting purple in TSC and had never heard of it in 64 yrs. Turns out it is applicable in many states. It is a nice color to paint rocks!

Pa just approved purple paint (in the lat few years) as an alternative to posted signs.

Timber companies and game lands have been marked with blue and white paint for a long time.

Its been around here for a few years. Nearest i can tell is its for people that can't read. Literacy seems to come and go around the hunting seasons.

Had it here for over 10 yrs.
I usually find $7 gallons of mis mixed paint and have them tint to purple.

It's a lot easier and faster to splash blazes on trees than it is to hang signs. The paint is more durable too.

It's also less expense to landowners and/or land managers.

Has been an accepted means of posting property in Texas for a long time.

Purple is the state color in kansas. Half the state is painted purple.

And the rest is jayhawkers! Don't pay no attention to either one!

The rage is painting corner posts and gate posts purple in Ks. I just ask like normal, most just use it to scare ya off. It was originally supposed to mean, "don't bother to ask", but I've found they do it so people won't bother them all the time.

Well there ya go, all set

Purple is also really hard to see in the dark. Here it is orange, which is also retarded, easier to see, but what surveyors had used as a standard to mark lines forever.

Here, Orange paint is a marker for Gamelands. Purple is private lands.

In Illinois purple paint, signs or fences do not deter the trespassers!

I've never known what the purple paint is for. I have seen it a few times while hunting public. I just figured it was something to do with logging.

What good does painting the trees do if people don't know what it means?

What? never heard of such a thing.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse but if you live where purple paint marking is not the law, it is more understandable. Where it is a legal posting method, it is in the Hunting Regulations booklet and it also shows the correct method of marking a property.

Definitely not as easy to deface as it is to take down a sign.

I've never seen anything about purple paint in the regs, here in WI. Don't ever remember anyone talking about it (family and gun club) and nothing in hunter's safety.

What about the people that are color blind?

I might be wrong but I'm pritty sure purple paint was first used in arkansas.people here been using it I know for sure over 30 years. Everyone here knows what it means

Just read a few articles about it. Interesting, seems public education is the hardest part.

Supposedly purple was chosen because "most" colorblind people can still see it.

Been that way here for a long time. It's taught in the Hunter Ed class and I'm pretty sure it's in the yearly handbook.