do you know of a specific brand that doens't use UV brighteners? I've looked around a little and haven't been able to find one. I've seen a few people recommend using baking soda, which sounds like it'd work wellWhile that may make your lime green MC Hammer parachute pants look awfully spiffy, it's bad for deer hunting. You can buy some moderately high-dollar detergent specifically for hunting, but from what I understand any generic detergent that doesn't have brighteners (or scents, but that's another subject) does pretty much the same thing.
you know of a specific brand that doens't use UV brighteners? I've looked around a little and haven't been able to find one. I've seen a few people recommend using baking soda, which sounds like it'd work well
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Only on public hunting areas where it's required. The government can kiss off when I'm hunting my own land. In Texas, private property is private. Bag limits and hunting regulations still apply, but there are no requirements for orange on private property.
You should go back and read my previous post. IMO, anyone hunting during deer season should have orange, no matter where they're at. You never know who's out there, legally or not. If that dude had been camo'd up, I'd have sent a 12 gauge slug right at him.
As other posters have said, deer just don't see orange (assuming you don't move). There's just no reason not to wear orange IMO unless you have a death wish.
I've deer hunted for over 40 years. There's no way in hell I'd deer or elk hunt without orange, required or not. YMMV
I couldn't find any detailed info on el cheapo generic laundry detergent (you know, like the 'house brand' stuff at Wal-Mart) on the web, and I haven't really looked into it for several years, so that stuff might have brighteners in it now too for all I know. I've been using this stuff I got from Bass Pro Shops for awhile now. I went to their Outdoor World in Concord, NC in February of 2003 and got a 5-gallon bucket of it on clearance. I still haven't used but about half of it.nico said:do you know of a specific brand that doens't use UV brighteners?
Maybe so, but even if it only saves the lives of a handful of hunters each year (and I think you could make that case pretty convincingly) in exchange for a few deer getting away that otherwise might have been shot, I'd tend to think that's a pretty good trade-off, wouldn't you?SteveS said:Author and hunter, Richard P. Smith, has said that blaze orange has saved far more deer than hunters.
Maybe so, but even if it only saves the lives of a handful of hunters each year (and I think you could make that case pretty convincingly) in exchange for a few deer getting away that otherwise might have been shot, I'd tend to think that's a pretty good trade-off, wouldn't you?