Well.... what about in the mountains, looking across a deep gorge, at daybreak, through heavy brush? How will they know where the ground is? As fast as I'm moving, they might not pause to ponder it & I probably sound like a really BIG deer. [Actually, we wouldn't be in the woods at daybreak. Around here most riders stay clear of the woods until after 10a during hunting season.]
I use a hunter orange helmet cover & surveyor tape tied to saddle and bridle, and sometimes an orange vest and maybe a bell if I know I'm going somewhere risky. We had a kid shot near here a couple of years ago, during TURKEY season. Hunter thought the boy was a turkey.
--- On Wed, 10/15/08, Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Better to not ride in country where the hunters can't tell the
difference between a rider on a horse where the helmet is consistently
10 feet above the ground vs. a white tail deer where the tail is about 4
feet above the ground.
Truman
Sisu West Ranch wrote:
> *"...*It's amazing how visible a white helmet is on the
trail!..."
> *Unfortunately the White Tailed Deer, flags its white tail when
> alarmed. White is not a good color to be moving through the woods in
> white tail country.*
> **
> *Better to stick to hunter orange.*
> **
> *Ed & Wendy Hauser
> 2994 Mittower Road
> Victor, MT 59875*
> *(406) 381-5527*
> *ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us*
