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There's no mistaking this hunter. But these men take a great risk:
light. But when yellow is worn afield, it fairly leaps into prominence!
Dr. Art Heinsen, president of the California Optometrists
Association, who has made an intensive study of this problem, says,
"We have been working on this for a long time and are convinced that
many accidents can be avoided by the simple expedient of
changing the safety color in hunting gear from red to yellow."
Dr. Heinsen offers this safety scale of colors, rated from zero to a
perfect score of 67: yellow, 64; orange, 38; plaid, 26; green,
20; red, 17; and blue, 11. Note the variance between yellow and the
generally accepted safe color of red.
It's a proved fact that red is particularly confusing to a group
comprising eight percent of our male hunter population: the color
blind. They have no difficulty recognizing color under normal
lighting conditions. However, with impaired visibility or poor light,
they confuse colors.
At dawn or dusk, in a fog or deep shade, their ability to recognize
colors fails dismally. Color-blind hunters are potentially the
most dangerous because they often won't admit, even to themselves,
that they suffer this deficiency.
Les Lahr, director of the California Fish and Game Hunter Safety
Program, offers these recommendations, as a partial solution
to hunting accidents: (1) By testing, make each hunter aware of his
visual abilities, especially color perception. (2) Have all
hunters wear a golden yellow that can be readily seen and recognized
by other hunters. And to obtain maximum protection from this
color, it should be worn in such size that the wearer will be unmis
takably identified as a man.
Some state conservation departments are considering making it
mandatory for all hunters to wear yellow afield. On the other
hand, permissive wearing of either red or yellow (as some states
allow) may increase hunting casualties. When no protective color is
expected by the hunter, it can be assumed that he will take
more time to recognize his potential target; if a large group of hunters
is wearing yellow, however, and only a few wear red, it's easy
to see that the latter are in increased jeopardy.
To illustrate dramatically the tremendous difference between red
and yellow, remember that for every 25 visible shades of yellow,
only one shade of red can be seen with the human eye. This applies to
people with either normal or color-deficient vision. Finally,
because of its high energy content, a hunter wearing yellow can be
spotted at a greater distance.
Some hunters may object to wearing yellow because they claim it
makes them too readily visible to the game they are stalking.
That's nonsense! In the case of big game, the primary clues to a
hunter's presence are movement and scent. The big-game
animal possesses very poor vision and has no color perception.
With game birds, we have a different story. They not only have color
vision, but amazingly keen vision. However, if you're an upland
game hunter, you know that your presence is well known to all birds
the minute you step into the field regardless of what
color you're wearing!
Let's face it. Hunting accidents are caused by carelessness and
ignorance. As long as untrained and irresponsible hunters are allowed
freedom of the range, we will continue to have hunting casualties
no matter what color hunters wear.
"We do believe, however," says Dr. Heinsen, "that grounds for
legal action against careless hunters would be strengthened if
the victim were wearing a readily recognized yellow-colored garment.
No hunter wearing yellow will ever look like anything other
-than a hunter wearing yellow. And anyone shooting at
such a plainly visible target can never make the
feeble excuse, 'I thought it was a deer.' "
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