Blaze orange
I hunt, at least when I can. It pleases me to no end when walkers, joggers and dog walkers are showing their orange. Fido too!
So why orange. It is because deer's eyes don't work like ours.
It has to do with rods and cones in the eyes. Deer are nocturnal and can see in very low light but are very color blind.
We can see a good part of the color spectrum but aren't good at night vision. Remember "ROY G BIV?
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet? Deer see at the end of the spectrum so Red And Orange are hard for them to see. Us people, we are on the other end of the spectrum and can see them great.
Funny but your old Grand Pa probably wore a woolen jacket and pants that were checkered red and black. Warm, quiet and possibly the most difficult thing for a deer to see!
Misty Blue
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