Blaze orange: myths and realities

With the assistance of Ridgeline, Sporting Shooter explores the benefits and explodes the myths of using blaze orange clothing and equipment when hunting. We show why it is such a safety benefit for humans and demonstrate why it’s all but invisible to animals.

See it in action, even bow hunting.

For the video below, we’ve used a multitude of clothes and equipment from Ridgeline’s extensive range of blaze orange hunting gear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnNWtrX4js

Mick Matheson

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Mick grew up with guns and journalism, and has included both in his career. A life-long hunter, he has long-distant military experience and holds licence categories A, B and H. In the glory days of print media, he edited six national magazines in total, and has written about, photographed and filmed firearms and hunting for more than 15 years.