Southeast Independent | 1957-10-10 | Page 10 | Red must be Worn during Big Game Hunt

1 Spokesmen noted that the de-jpartment de-jpartment is well aware of the tests made in recent years in sister sis-ter states which seem to show the color yellow as being more easily and readily seen when afield. af-ield. These tests are continuing and more conclusive results from them will be available in the future. Should these tests conclusively prove the yellow clothing superior super-ior to red in safety and other values while hunting the spokesman spokes-man said the department would be the first to ask for such a change legislatively and doubtless would be supported by the state's organized or-ganized sportsmen. It was again accented, however, howev-er, that until such a change is made the present law requires all big game hunters to wear "conspicuous red headgear and red shirt, sweater or jacket" whenever afield. Those failing to do so are in violation of this law. Red Must be Worn During Big Gams Hunt Only red colored clothing is acceptable ac-ceptable and must be worn when hunting big game animals in Utah. Ut-ah. So said the department of fish and game in answer to an increasing in-creasing number of questions " regarding re-garding the use of yellow colored clothing by hunters. Section 23-4-12 of the fish and game code reads, "Every person, while hunting big game animals, shall wear conspicuous red headgear head-gear and red shirt, sweater, or jacket." The department noted that this is a legislative law and cannot be cha'nged by commission, game board, or department action. Only by passage of a bill by the State Legislators requesting such a j change can the law be changed. iNext regular meeting of the Legislature Leg-islature begins in January of 1959. One exception to this general red clothing color law resulted from a legislative bill this year. This addition to the above section sec-tion of law gave archery hunters , of big game the right to wear only the red headgear when hunting hunt-ing deer, but only during the season sea-son limited to bow and arrow hunting. If the archer uses bow and arrow ar-row to hunt deer during other seasons for which is properly licensed, li-censed, and the bow is a legal weapon on such hunts, he must comply with the wearing of both red headgear and torso covering.