how many of you wear orange while pheasant hunting ?

if it is public land with released birds does that change your answer?

I am a Yes I wear orange a vest and hat.

Vest and hat here, private and public, doesn't matter. I usually only hunt with a few other people (not by myself), just helps us keep track of each other.

Yes, always wear orange while hunting all upland birds. No matter the location.

I hate getting shot. I wear orange.

Heck, I throw an orange hat on when I walk to the mailbox during firearm deer season. LOL

Yup! I wear it when I don’t have to!

Big fan of not getting shot, maybe the biggest fan of not getting shot ever!

(Said in a Donald Trump voice)

I hate someone telling me what I HAVE to wear when I'm hunting

It's communist. I've said that ever since they made it law here in PA

I don't hunt Chinese chicken anymore

Well, if that is the worst thing that happens to you today. (Someone making you wear some orange for safety) then that’s a good day.


Hope you have a good season.

Yeah, we don’t have them wild down here. Only time I’m part of a hunt is for a mentored hunt, and if they want to participate, they wear orange.

it isn't a requirement here but if you don't and you get a lead shower it was your own fault.

How about teaching people the proper way to handle a firearm when a field?
Know what's behind what you are shooting at.
I've bought my own clothes since I was 12, and no one will tell me how I have to dress to be safe
This subject gets me fired up.

I have a few orange t-shirts and an orange sweatshirt I wear under my orange coat or vest that way if I want to change layers I am good

we hunt some thick stuff , yesterday 30 yards apart I couldn't see my hunting partner in places, also could not hear him over the wind.
keeping track of where he is shaves time off knowing if I can shoot that bird , wait for it to move or have to pass.

we also yell bird when we send one up , in the case of the one he almost stepped on yesterday but then couldn't shoot because it was headed over my son who was with the dog, just a few yards away. I was on it and as soon as it was in front of me it was down, it buys time.

We yell Hen if it is a hen going up , as we hunt rooster only ground.

how about teaching people wearing brown in a field of 5 foot brown grass not to walk in a intersecting path to the people they can see wearing orange.

I can completely understand you don't want to be told to wear orange on private ground.

I am saying public ground with released birds

or public land for Deer , during gun deer season on WI public land it is not uncommon to be able to see someone in every compass direction from where you are in orange 50-100 yards away

I have pulled up on a deer just to see orange behind the deer 100 yards that I couldn't see until moved to the opening that I saw the deer headed to , let that deer walk past the guy sleeping , then shoot it
had that guy been all in brown laying in brown leaves 150 yards away never would have seen him.

It's the law here. Gun season for deer too.

I wear the minimum amount required by law. Grouse hunting I wear none at all, except when I grouse hunt during rifle season.

In SD, I wear an orange hat.

However, if I hunted pheasants on public land in southern WI, I would wear blaze orange and probably a flack jacket.

it isn't quite that bad out here on a weekday
but Bong rec area got so bad that they charge a fee for entry and assign fields , limit hours
we skip opening day for a reason.

I don't hunt on public lands, to many people.
There's also a $20 permit to hunt Chinese chicken.
All stocked, no wild birds around me. And they closed most of the Chinese chicken farms right after requiring the you needed a permit to hunt them

Our GC is stupid. Literally

Ok

Ok

the pheasant stamp here is 10 dollars

weekday hunting around me isn't too bad we will get out around 8-10 times during the season

If the law states it I do it. Even checking traps during a gun season I wear it also.