Blaze orange is required to wear in many states while firearm deer season is open.
But are whitetails able to see blaze orange? Do we stand out like a great big pumpkin to a deer?
If deer can see orange the way humans do, we are at a disadvantage as hunters by wearing it.
Researchers recently did a study for QDMA. Their finding might surprise you.
After much research into deer vision capabilities and the physical structure of deer eyes, University of Georgia researchers Dr. Karl V. Miller and Dr. Gino D’Angelo wrote an article in QDMA’s Quality Whitetails magazine on their findings. For the article, Karl and Gino attempted to put on “Deer Goggles.” Taking what they learned about deer and human focal perspectives, fields of view, and color perception, they used photo editing software to create the two views you see above of a hunter in a woodland scene (the image above shows a small part of each image, so be sure to click on the complete comparison in the Gallery below). Though not intended to show you exactly what the world looks like to a deer, the comparison helps explain how deer view the world differently than we do, and it helps answer the question: Can deer see hunter orange? … [continued]
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