Thanksgiving morning I had a neighbor to m bosses farm drive up on a utv to let me know I needed to wear orange. Upon approaching e said oh I see your wearing orange. He then proceeded to tell me how him and his seven year old son couldn’t see my orange and were following me with their scope trying to decide if I was a deer they should shoot. The only thing he did right that day was have his son with him when he pulled up to me. I was nice. I explained I had my orange on but even If I hadn’t how did he figure him pointing a rifle at any living thing he hadn’t identified, on a property he didn’t have permission to hunt was my fault. The fact he was teaching it to his son was just as bad. Then I explained to them that by law I had to wear orange hunting. Foresters, hikers, hunters just scouting, people looking for arrowheads, and anyone else who wants to spend time outdoors can wear brown, tan, grey, or any other color they want. During this I realized I knew his dad. I couldn’t be ugly with his kid their so I called his dad and told him to take back whatever he had for his son and grandson for Christmas. They needed binoculars far worse than anything else and if he had an extra pair he should go ahead and let them borrow them until Santa came.
I had something similar happen on public 20 years ago. I was sitting on the ground on a fire break. Literally watched the guy walk onto the firebreak and look at me in my orange vest from about a hundred yards then throw his rifle up looking through the scope. My actions weren’t as cordial back then. I think he got the message from a hundred yards but I know he understood by the time I had cut that distance to 75 yards
Funny what a difference a couple decades make.
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