Safety is the up most concern, but after more than 10 years of testing the regulation requiring spring turkey hunters to wear orange as they moved from one stand to another the law did not improve safety. So the PA Board of Game Commissioners approved the removal of the fluorescent orange requirement for the upcoming 2008 spring turkey season. Running and gunning can be an effective method of bagging a tom, it can also be dangerous and discourteous especially in an area with a high density of hunters. Respect the other guy's set up and play it safe. Turkey hunting safety has improved with the average turkey hunting related shooting incident rate dropping from 8.1 per 100,000 hunters to about 2.95 per 100,000.
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Wow, I'm not sure how I feel about that. It seems like making hunters easier to see would make them safer.
Posted by: kristine shreve | March 17, 2008 08:23 AM
You do have to be careful when turkey hunting, but I do think it is best for the turkey hunter that they drop the blaze orange requirement.
Those darn birds can see so well that we need any help we can get.
Posted by: Arthur | March 18, 2008 10:11 AM
the average hunter turkey or otherwise is a slob,thru my 50 yrs of hunting, and the more i hunt the worst they get,give them a atv,a hand gun or automatic a can of beer and private property and they think they went to heaven,i spend all my free time in the woods
Posted by: william paveletz | March 29, 2008 08:08 AM
william: Sad to hear that your turkey hunting experiences haven't been stellar. I question the use of ATV during hunting, of course I could have used one to pull out that 8-pointer I tagged last year. You also hate to be a rat even if they are slob hunters. Hopefully the slobs will get frustrated and go back to watching TV.
Posted by: robert | March 31, 2008 01:41 PM