http://www.qdma.com/articles/details.asp?id=48

 

Good article!

 

Hers a few more, some are a bit too scientific but you should get the idea.

http://home.adelphia.net/~geffert/deervis.htm

http://www.bowhunting.net/artman/publish/atskodeersee.shtml

 

They dont .Dont wash your clothes with brightners . Deer dont see in color .But they can spot any movemeny very well.Camo is way over rated .Atleast it makes us look good!

 

I agree Camo is very overrated. Scent control and cover are more important.

 

When you are still in the woods, it is so easy to spot movement. That is us, deer can do it 10X better supposedly. So, the most important thing is to be still. Orange comes through like other light colors and probably is good at blending into the sky in a tree stand. I think when moving, having orange on your limbs could make it easier for deer to see you, but it is pretty easy for them to see you moving anyway.

Deer will always believe their noses, so scent control is more important than clothing color. Once they scent you they are gone. However, if they see you, many times they circle downwind to verify rather than bolt. With noises they will also come in downwind many times.

 

Blending into your surrounding and limiting movement we all have trouble with.[cool]

 

how do deer see blaze orange

A better question would be....what does blaze orange mean to a deer..?

I believe that like many other learned behaviors, blaze orange means nothing to a deer that has never seen it move unexpectedly before, or have a human odor associated with it...

However, if a deer regularly see's blaze orange and does see movement and human odor in the vacinity it will quickly learn to associate blaze orange objects with danger...

That being said...having just returned from Illinois, I had a number of deer within 20ft of me, look straight at me while I was wearing the mandatory covering of Blaze Orange...and not one of them displayed any indications of concern whatsoever...

JC

 

good articles. [up]