Hunter orange ATV helmet requirement.

[rick_iles]

I agree with you. There just seems to be a lack of common sense. I’m surprised they don’t mandate flashing orange lights, flags and beepers on vehicles whenever a hunter is travelling in them.

Don’t give them any ideas …. Lol

[trimmer21]

I agree with you. There just seems to be a lack of common sense. I’m surprised they don’t mandate flashing orange lights, flags and beepers on vehicles whenever a hunter is travelling in them.

LOL How many hunters take their hats off and toss them on the dash of their vehicle on the way home or toss their B/O coat/jacket/vest over the seat? Would it surprise anyone to learn that it's all the R&PG (reasonable and probable grounds) a CO,Police Constable needs to facilitate an inspection stop? We're already visible for inspection at a glance when festooned with B/O when in the field. I sometimes wonder if the entire B/O thing was actually about "safety"(although there's no doubt high viz has reduced accidental injuries),but,some things invented by politicians just make a guy go "h-m-m-m-m-m....."

[MikePal]

I sometimes wonder if the entire B/O thing was actually about "safety"(although there's no doubt high viz has reduced accidental injuries),but,some things invented by politicians just make a guy go "h-m-m-m-m-m....."

I know I wear B/O more for my safety than the legal aspect. When you're with a hunt camp and a lot of rifles are in the area it's best they can see you and you them, regardless if the CO tells you have to or not.

[gbk]

I know I wear B/O more for my safety than the legal aspect. When you're with a hunt camp and a lot of rifles are in the area it's best they can see you and you them, regardless if the CO tells you have to or not.

Totally agreed,yet again,since one has a gun in a case(or on a rack)the gun is empty, and one can not shoot from an ATV(or from or across any traveled portion of a traveled right of way) chasing hunter orange for the riders does not make sense.
SAME ,as if one travels in a hunting area in a vehicle,and have no orange on........

One can step out from the vehicle as fast as the ATV guy,walk over,load and shoot.........no difference.

[gbk]

LOL How many hunters take their hats off and toss them on the dash of their vehicle on the way home or toss their B/O coat/jacket/vest over the seat? Would it surprise anyone to learn that it's all the R&PG (reasonable and probable grounds) a CO,Police Constable needs to facilitate an inspection stop? We're already visible for inspection at a glance when festooned with B/O when in the field. I sometimes wonder if the entire B/O thing was actually about "safety"(although there's no doubt high viz has reduced accidental injuries),but,some things invented by politicians just make a guy go "h-m-m-m-m-m....."

X2 -easier to see a hunter this way.

But at the other hand,if one drives in an open season on ATV,in game inhabited area,with an encased gun-what else he could do,then eventually hunt.
Some regulations have a lot of questionable elements.

[Fox]

X2 -easier to see a hunter this way.

But at the other hand,if one drives in an open season on ATV,in game inhabited area,with an encased gun-what else he could do,then eventually hunt.
Some regulations have a lot of questionable elements.

I do not see why the vehicle would matter, since the gun being unloaded and encased negates it from use then biking down a road, going for a jog, driving in a car or truck, etc, with a hunting license, during an open season may be considered hunting if the CO decides that you looked at the scenery as you went past. I mean, you are searching for an animal and you are a hunter and you may come back and hunt that location so therefore you are hunting by definition right?

[smitty55]

LOL I sometimes wonder if the entire B/O thing was actually about "safety"(although there's no doubt high viz has reduced accidental injuries),but,some things invented by politicians just make a guy go "h-m-m-m-m-m....."

Well there are other provinces with no blaze orange requirements for hunters. I'm sure they did their research to determine the safety aspects of that legislation and decided it wasn't worth it.

[Fox]

Well there are other provinces with no blaze orange requirements for hunters. I'm sure they did their research to determine the safety aspects of that legislation and decided it wasn't worth it.

Those provinces are more often than not those with large open areas and are not hunting the bush with groups of people like we do in Ontario.

[smitty55]

Those provinces are more often than not those with large open areas and are not hunting the bush with groups of people like we do in Ontario.

I don't buy that other than in the prairies. How about Alberta where more than half of the province in the north is all bush and not prairies. Then there's BC, sure not much flat open land there. In Manitoba orange camo is permitted but not in Ontario.
https://www.tbcpress.com/HUNTER-SAFE...ts-Canada.html

[Fox]

I don't buy that other than in the prairies. How about Alberta where more than half of the province in the north is all bush and not prairies. Then there's BC, sure not much flat open land there. In Manitoba orange camo is permitted but not in Ontario.
https://www.tbcpress.com/HUNTER-SAFE...ts-Canada.html

Do you know people hunting in Alberta who run dogs and push the bush with 20 guys? The population density of hunters and hunting tactics in this province are different.

You may not buy it but Northern Alberta does not have a lot of people and only a certain percentage of them hunt, compare that to southern Ontario, central Ontario during the deer gun hunt or Northern Ontario during a moose hunt, they are not even close.

Hunter Orange is not required for small game, bow hunting, bear hunting from a tree stand, etc, just when gun hunting for moose, deer and elk is on or bear hunting from the ground.