The Hunt Hunting Association asks you hunters to pay more attention to safety and to the fact that they must wear the high visibility vest during wild boar hunting.
In fact, let’s go back to talk about Vests with high visibility and safety of hunters, waiting for the Region of Sardinia to issue an urgent measure that obliges big hunting teams to use the orange vest. As is already the case in almost all regions of Italy, we ask you hunter friends to wear a High Visibility vest, which will surely help you to be more recognizable in soils covered with thick vegetation.
We are increasingly convinced by the testimony of a member of the team involved in the accident, as a direct interested,” reports our friend hunter “as a person who knows how the facts occurred I can tell you that if the wounded had worn the orange reflective vest would most likely have avoided the tragedy.”
Dear friends, the vest is fundamental for the safety of all us hunters and does not affect the joke, the ungulates have in fact a dichromatic vision, so they are not able to distinguish all the colors. To be precise, wild boars have only two types of cones, a type sensitive to short waves (blue / purple light) and the other sensitive to medium waves (green / yellow light), but are totally unable to distinguish red and green.
Therefore, in the eyes of a wild boar, a hunter dressed in green, red or orange looks alike, while in the eyes of another hunter appears visible and recognizable, so thanks to the orange vest with high visibility many lives can be saved without affecting the joke hunting.