for what it's worth, people are also killed by falling bullets every year as
well, so just because the hunter pointed away (or indirectly "up") doesn't
mean you can't be hurt...

00 caren
http://www.parkgallery.org
from the internet near seward park


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Bletsch" <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
To: "tweeters tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 8:34 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] question re: wearing orange in hunt areas


> Dear Tweeters,
>
> A fellow birder told me he'd been accosted by a hunter
> at Fir Island Game Range (WMA). The hunter told the
> birder that everybody in the area has to wear a
> certain number of square inches of optic orange
> clothing, whether or not the person be hunting. The
> hunter warned the birder that the refuge manager might
> kick a birder out of there if the birder wasn't decked
> out like an oriole.
>
> Do any Tweeters know the regs on this?
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
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