someone has to know?????

[Guest OHBUKMSTR]

What is the truth about a deers eye sight what do they see do they see color or no if you where hunting during shotgun season in ohio could you wear a blaze orang suit with the black hardwoods pattern and stil be not seen????????? I never knew the truth about this

[MadHuntinPastor]

Re: someone has to know?????

Looks like nobody knows.......

Really I don't think anyone does know except through experience. We do know that they see movement easily. If you are still enough you can go unseen wearing orange or camo. I've been picked off in both and killed deer in both.

[ZooBear]

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I think they can see some colors. I think they are looking more for outlines and movement.

[double_drop]

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Not sure. I have been told they can and can't see colors by so many that I have given up trying to figure it out. I wear all blaze orange during shotgun season here and i haven't had a problem with it. Just don't wash your clothes and then they won't glow as much in the treestand.

[Smitteken]

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I've read that they can see shades of blue but the other end of the spectrum of red, orange, yellow they don't see.

[VermontHunter]

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This is what have been able to find and share with you all....What you draw from it is totally up to you all...

Karl V. Miller, professor of wildlife ecology and management at the University of Georgia’s D.B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, and one of the most knowledgeable and widely quoted experts in the country about the habits of whitetails.

Whitetail Deer Vision . Humans see in red, green, and blue. Deer, as best we can tell, are probably like a person with red-green color blindness, which means they can see blue and into the yellow-orange range, but probably can’t distinguish green and red or see as deeply into the color spectrum as we do. “In other words, they’d have a hard time at a stoplight or picking a ripe tomato. Dark red is likely to look black to them. It’s pretty safe to say that blaze orange doesn’t stand out to a deer, so there’s absolutely no excuse not to wear it. Where it’s legal, a broken-up pattern would be better so that you don’t stand out as a single block of color, something that occurs rarely in nature.”

Deer probably don’t possess the yellow filter humans have to protect our eyes from ultraviolet light damage. If that’s the case, they may perceive blue even better than we do. But yellow increases contrast, which is why we wear yellow lenses at the skeet range. This could be why a deer seems to have a hard time distinguishing you from a fence post until you move. As any hunter knows, though, they pick up movement exceptionally well. And with eyes positioned so their field of vision is somewhere around 300 degrees, it’s tough to get the drop on a whitetail.

[longislandhunter]

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I've heard all the same things others have heard, all I know is that there have been many times when I've been in full blaze orange and as long as I didn't move the deer didn't seem to notice me.

[wtnhunt]

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Been studies done by a several different people on deers vision. Best as I can tell from experience, deer dont see some colors really well, however they have an incredible ability to detect the slightest movements. Wear the orange and be still and the deer will not see you.