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To the editor:
The' western hunting season has ended, and again several hunters have been killed through careless and negligent hunting practices.
Some people have said that we are fortunate to lose only six or seven lives a year, considering that hunting season draws more than 400,000 hunters to our forests annually. My opinion is that one life is too many.
I agree that blaze orange clothing greatly reduces the risk that a hunter will be mistaken for game. I also firmly believe that everyone should wear it while hunting. I do, and I request that my hunting companions do the same.
But statistics compiled by the Game Commission show that at least half of all injuries and fatalities occur in situations where blaze orange would make no difference: in open fields, for example, or when loading or unloading a firearm.
Most reasonable people will agree that there is a small segment of the hunting population that will resist any efforts to require blaze orange. A conservative estimate is that three in 10 turkey hunters will flatly refuse to wear the color, regardless of the law.
Consider for a moment the psychology of hunters who shoot at sounds and movement. Earlier this month, a jogger near Keysville was shot by a hunter. The hunter had mistaken the jogger for a deqr. I don’t think that everyone wants to require joggers to wear blaze orange, but media attention given to
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