Posted on 11/18/2023 7:43:34 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
“I might get a little razzing for wearing pink,” says Clements, a construction contractor. “My friends will absolutely give me a lot of crap. But they give me a lot of crap anyway.”
...Matt Davis, the founder and owner of Final Rise, initially stayed away from offering gear in pink. “There’s a lot of gals out there that just get pissed off whenever you throw pink on something,” he says. “They feel it’s downgrading them as hunters, that they’re not as good as guys.”
“To me it was not a gender issue, it was a safety issue,” he adds. “A dead hunter is a dead hunter, not a macho hunter.”
Greg Howdeshell, a hunter in Dallas, shuns the thought of wearing pink. “I think I would get shot here in Texas if I get caught hunting in pink,” he say
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A guy I used to hunt deer with was out during muzzle-loader season, hunting with his dad. His dad was wearing his fishing cap, with a sheepskin drying patch on the front. He stuck his head up on a foggy day, and my buddy drew a bead on him. He realized what was going on and walked over and grabbed the hat and gave his dad hell.
A lot of cyclists wear pink socks. You can see them from far off. Pink jumps out far more than orange or yellow.
My last bike helmet was orange. My new one is neon yellow
When Skunk Works built the F-117, they tested every color imaginable and found that for night interception, flat dull pink was basically undetectable by the human eye. The plane vanished visually. But the USAF rejected that and went with more menacing black.
Camo is to break up the blocky shape of the hunter. Orange is so another hunter can see you. Deer see the bright orange as brown. They are basically colorblind. So having a camo pattern with orange in it does both. Breaks up the outline and makes you visible to other hunters.
Our town replaced the old muted yellow (a somewhat restful color) on the School Zone signs with a fluorescent yellow-green (a horrid DayGlo puke green). The town just doesn’t look the same.
The old color had been used for 100 years. I’ll bet the change-over doesn’t prevent one accident or save one life. Kind of like the billions spent on California “Prop 65” warnings that everything under the sun is known to give you cancer. Those stupid signs have not influenced a SINGLE purchase much less prevented a case of cancer in 20 years, but they keep merrily rolling along.
Ann can wear anything she likes.
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Or, not.
Thanks for the reminder of how happy I am that I no longer waste money on the WJS.
You didn’t realize they had a heightened sense of fashion, LOL. By the way, thank you for your service.
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