I always wear the blaze orange, so the outline is still broken up, not one solid color and other hunters can still see you. when I get to my stand or bucket or blind I usualy hang it on a branch nearby, but always have it on when walking
Years ago I did some research on the type of vision deer have : dichromatic defective color vision in which one of the three cone pigments is missing.There are some real good studies going on about this in whitetailed deer
Great post C r0ck!!
Deer like all other mammals have two types of photoreceptor, rods and cones. The rods are responsible for vision in dim light and the cones are responsible for vision in daylight. The light absorbing properties of the rods in deer were found to be similar to those found in other mammals, including humans. Two classes of cone photoreceptor were detected in the deer. One most sensitive to short-wavelength light (blue-violet); the other most sensitive to middle-wavelength light (green-yellow).
The region of highest sensitivity for the deer is at a shorter wavelength than that of humans. The relative sensitivity of deer to short-wavelength light is dramatically higher than human sensitivity to those wavelengths. For equal intensities, deer are expected to see short and middle-wavelengths as brightest. Because of the absence of red cones, the drop off in sensitivity at the long-wavelength end of the spectrum occurs at shorter wavelengths for deer. They are less sensitive in the spectral region that appears orange to humans and are virtually insensitive to deep reds. With only two classes of cone photoreceptors, deer can distinguish no more than two basic colors, one for the short wavelength end of the spectrum and another for the middle-to-long wavelength end of the spectrum. Animals with dichromatic color vision do not see an intermediate color in the spectral region between the two colors. That is, they do not see a color that appears bluish-yellow. Instead they see the intermediate spectral region as colorless (gray).
For full reading here is one I have saved but I have many pages saved on this topic. http://home.comcast.net/~gefferts/deervis.htm
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