Oh I guarantee there were WAAAY more people in the 60s looking at other hunters through their rifle scopes than there are today. Way more.
It was a bad and unsafe practice then, just as it is now.
The hunter orange law won’t change that.
My question about other states is simply to show that other states have less restrictive orange requirements than we do, and they don’t appear to have more issues with accidental shootings because of it. I may still wear an orange vest. I may not. I’ll probably have my kids wear them…but we’ll see.
The best part about Utah’s current law is it never even required the 400 sq inches to be visible. I could have had a blaze orange t shirt under a camo long sleeve and coat, with an orange hat and I was legal. At least now it will require the one piece of orange to be on the outside.
I think you hunt in the wrong places bessy. The hunters I saw on a LE rifle elk last year all wore orange as required. But my goal was to avoid other hunters, not hang around them all the time! Wearing orange has never bothered me, but I’m okay with the law change.