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During the 1972-73 season, 80 Mississippi hunters were shot and 34 of them died. Read that again — 80 shot, 34 deaths, all the result of deer hunting accidents. On one day at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, three hunters arrived at the emergency room with gunshot wounds; one of them survived. Shortly after the bloodiest of all deer seasons ended, the 1973 Mississippi Legislature passed a bill requiring deer hunters wear a minimum of an orange hat, which, unfortunately, people didn’t want to do. The last thing they wanted was to be more visible, and being told that deer didn’t see orange as humans do didn’t matter. The 1973-74 season still saw 75 hunters shot and 15 killed.”

This doesn’t sound, to me, as much of a hunter orange issue as it does a hunter education issue.

I have always thought that some type of “target” identification quiz using photos/videos should be an integral part of all hunter education classes. Minimum score of 100%.
You fail the test, you fail the class.

If you can’t identify a deer from a human in class how the hell is someone allowed to carry a weapon out into the woods and make a good shoot/no shoot call?

Not to mention anyone who mistakes a human being for a deer and shoots should be banned from carrying a firearm into the woods for the rest of their days.
JMHO

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Posted by TheDrunkenTigah

Baton Rouge

Member since Aug 2011

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Posted on 12/2/23 at 9:39 am to AUTimbo

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This doesn’t sound, to me, as much of a hunter orange issue as it does a hunter education issue.

Having taken hunters ed in MS, I’d be surprised if it makes much of a difference. Yes they tell you to be sure of your target, but it’s not a pass-fail thing at least not when I took it.

You can tell someone a million times to be sure and they can still think it won’t be them that does it, orange says right then and there this isn’t an animal.

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Posted by saintsfan1977

Arkansas, from Cajun country

Member since Jun 2010

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Posted on 12/3/23 at 1:59 am to KajunKouyon

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Game warden rolled up on our neighbors food plot in Amite County Mississippi and wrote him a ticket on the spot for not wearing orange in his box stand.

Complete fricking douche. He had absolutely no reason to disturb someone hunting. Wrong person would put a bullet in his arse for that.

If you're walking to and from the stand, or tracking a deer, wear orange. If you're in the stand on public land, I'd think about it. On private property, I wouldn't wear it in the stand. But Yea frick that green jeans in the arse.

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Posted by bayoudude

Member since Dec 2007

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Posted on 12/3/23 at 12:31 pm to 257WBY

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“During the 1972-73 season, 80 Mississippi hunters were shot and 34 of them died.

Had to be mostly due to dog hunting and slinging rifle rounds and buckshot / slugs at moving targets while multiple people walking around at ground level

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