It sure looks alot like blaze orange. Can you buy blazeorange die or spray paint? It'd be a lot cheaper to color clothes I already have. Just a whim.

It sure looks alot like blaze orange. Can you buy blazeorange die or spray paint? It'd be a lot cheaper to color clothes I already have.

I'm sure the game will enjoy the smell of that paint! You can buy a hat for $5 and a vest for $10...less probably.

jonas

Now that is some creative thinking there! I bet it would work, too!

Jonas is right, though, you can go to about any department store with a sporting good section and pick up a blaze orange vest for downright cheap. I mean like $2 cheap! Probably less than the cost of a spray can and you can always take the blaze orange vest off whenever you want. Paint is a little harder to get off.

Most recent construction is brighter than blaze orange. But congress just declared it obsolete last funding bill, requiring multiple colors and greater reflectivity. Means all the construction vests in stock a few months ago cannot be used this season. Should be available real cheap.

Jonas is right...

Kart:

This is a great way to start my day...thanks!!

Seriouly tho, I'd avoid covering myself with anything as chemical as paint. Even after it dries, I'm sure it emitting scent we may not pick up, but the animals can. Also, given rain and wear, it will begin to flake off. You'd probably need to keep applying.

And to return the favor: Kart is right, a vest can be had for almost nothing....same with any number of differnt kinds of blaze hats.

And my man ST adds an interesting tip: surplus contrution wear. Might even find some interesting weatherproof items from that field.

jonas

One thing I carry with me is blazer orange bandanas, and my hunting pants have safety pins pinned on the inside of the pocket. These serve many purposes. If you have to clean your hands and knife off after cleaning game, you have a nice little rag to do so with. If you have to blow your nose, you're covered. And the safety pins are for areas when you need to wear the orange. In TX it is really only required when hunting on public land and you need a certain amount of sq.in. to be orange. So then you just pin a bandana on the front/back of your shirt, maybe down your pants legs and your hat and you are covered.

Kart:

This is a great way to start my day...thanks!!

Seriouly tho, I'd avoid covering myself with anything as chemical as paint. Even after it dries, I'm sure it emitting scent we may not pick up, but the animals can. Also, given rain and wear, it will begin to flake off. You'd probably need to keep applying.


jonas

Well, your right again about it flaking off over time.

Still, it was some outside the box, creative thinking by bru.

Regarding the scent issue, I don't believe the paint would make any difference to an animal picking up your scent. I'm not even sure an animal would be concerned about the smell of fresh paint. Anyway, animals can smell so good that I don't think scent-lok suits, scent killer sprays, soaps, chewing gum, or stinky cover scents are gonna make any significant difference at all. Just hunt the wind and keep your scent away from the prey. I think that's the only way to deal with the animal's nose.

Have you heard about those drug snorting dogs? Drug runners have encosed their drugs sealed in plastic, put inside the gas tank of a car, then filled the tank gasoline. Still a dog can trot around the outside of the car and smell the drugs through the steel gas tank, through the gasoline, and through the plastic. No way am I going to believe that a carbon lined jacket and pants is going to do anything to effectively reduce my scent to a creature that has a sense of smell even partly as refined as that.

Anyway, we agree on the main issue. It's just my opinion that you are making to much of a big deal about the scent issue.

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Well, your right again about it flaking off over time.

Still, it was some outside the box, creative thinking by bru.

Regarding the scent issue, I don't believe the paint would make any difference to an animal picking up your scent. I'm not even sure an animal would be concerned about the smell of fresh paint. Anyway, animals can smell so good that I don't think scent-lok suits, scent killer sprays, soaps, chewing gum, or stinky cover scents are gonna make any significant difference at all. Just hunt the wind and keep your scent away from the prey. I think that's the only way to deal with the animal's nose.

Have you heard about those drug snorting dogs? Drug runners have encosed their drugs sealed in plastic, put inside the gas tank of a car, then filled the tank gasoline. Still a dog can trot around the outside of the car and smell the drugs through the steel gas tank, through the gasoline, and through the plastic. No way am I going to believe that a carbon lined jacket and pants is going to do anything to effectively reduce my scent to a creature that has a sense of smell even partly as refined as that.

Anyway, we agree on the main issue. It's just my opinion that you are making to much of a big deal about the scent issue.

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Probably right. Human scent might be more of a hazard than the paint.

From now on, I'm going to hunt it a extra large trash bag...just need to poke some holes in it... :D