Huckleberry Finn
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To answer the original question: I lace my boots up one at a time.
Greg- These fellers are harsh. If my wrist sling comes back with funky colors, I promise I won't make fun of you. I will hand you some money, and say "Thank ya kindly, Sir!"
Greg- These fellers are harsh. If my wrist sling comes back with funky colors, I promise I won't make fun of you. I will hand you some money, and say "Thank ya kindly, Sir!"
Ha, you don't have to worry Phil, I am not to proud to ask my wife for help. Now, I will throw out a disclaimer that if we are arguing, you may end u with funky colors. If so, blame her! lol
I am red green color blind. I can still see all colors, but I don't see them the same as you all do. If you take two similar colors and show them to me one at a time and give me the two color choices to choose from, most likely I won't be able to identify them correctly. Place them side by side, and most of the time I can see a slight difference in the shading of the color and correctly identify the colors the about 3/4 the time.
Honestly, I don't know how to explain it to you all because I don't know how you see colors. The best explaination I can think of is that I just don't see colors as vividly as you all, most colors appear dull. Maybe that is why I'm a Michigan fan, as their colors appear to "pop" more to me than, say OSU. Hell, maybe I was dropped on my head one two many times as a kid, it's hard to say.
Being colotblind does have its perks though. We see better at night (ask Jesse about our drunken adventure to find some dropped muzzloading supplies at 3am), camouflage tends to stand out better to us vs the non blind people, we get a free pass for wearing things that don't match, and we can get other people to track a deer for us!
I will testify to the night vision! That is still a feat that amazes me!!! Drunk as hell on New Years and he remembers where he forgot his muzzleloading pack. So in the dark and cold, we load up beers and start the trek over hill, valley, dead falls and all! Sum bitch walked a mile through the woods, in the dark, drunk in the wee hours of the morning and literally walked to within 15' of the pack! Still a true feat of amazement!!!
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Sorry Greg, but that picture is hilarious, especially if the track job is a loooooong one and thru MUD!
I have to touch everything that "looks like blood" and see if it leaves a smear on my fingers. If it is wet, I literally have to get on my hands and knees. It is a sad sight to see, but I guarantee you won't find another that will work harder to find a blood trail than myself. I hate losing deer. That is also one of the reasons that I usually don't hunt in the rain. Last year, I limited myself to 20y and under on rainy days, as I wanted to he 100% sure if the big boy came through I would have a high percentage shot.
Best feeling in the world for me is arrowing a deer and watching it go down in sight!
I hope this year is the year for you to experience your best feeling in the world Greg. You definitely deserve it.
I'z got to thinking Greg, maybe it's not such a bad thing that you can't see red, er blood. If'n your gonna be have'n three adult females in the house and their cycles are overlapping..........YIKES!
I will take a guess: Ric is married with two daughters? I dunno. Just guessing. Maybe he was just busting Greg's balls a little?
Exactly! Not busting Greg balls!
Living with three females myself I was kinda busting my own balls. Oh the things I could share!
Lundy
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I am also color blind. It still amazes me how many of us there are and yet most manufacturers do not take that into account with packaging or labeling a product.
In my business meetings when someone presents a pie chart with all of the various shades of color representing different segments of our sales it might at well be a banana cream pie because much of it looks the same to me.
I see colors but I see them differently than most. I have a real problem telling red, greens and browns apart, and blues and purples. I can tell yellow from blue or red but not yellow from chartruse. You just learn to live with it.
Deer hunting for over 40 years with this brings on some challenges, but also I believe it is helpful in some small ways. I had an optometrist tell me many years ago about a study (US Military) performed that showed that color blind people can more easily distinguish shapes and pick out objects in hidden or camouflaged scenarios. The natural coloration used to conceal an animal has no impact of visual recognition. I do know that I can pick out deer from long distances in cover long before my son of hunting buddy can see them. When I went on a guided elk hunt in Wyoming I was spotting all of the elk before my two guides were. You brain learns to utilize what you do have, those with normal color vision use it, those that don't adapt to different vision identification, more shape oriented.
Being color blind also makes be slow down big time when blood trailing a deer for obvious reasons. It has also forced me to be very careful about shot selection and when I hunt. As primarily a bowhunter for over 20 years and hunting multiple states each year I would not take a shot if it was raining or getting ready to rain unless I had someone with me that I trusted to be able to properly follow a blood trail. I can follow a blood trail and other sign of a hit deer it just takes me longer than some. I have been very fortunate to have never lost a deer, ever, but I used help more than a few times. I really think that not being able to see some color has allowed me to see (required to utilize)other things more clearly
Color blindness and hunting is no real issue and may even provide some benefit of slowing everything down a little. Clothes shopping is something else altogether however.
You just learn to deal with it, it's not like we have a choice.
In my business meetings when someone presents a pie chart with all of the various shades of color representing different segments of our sales it might at well be a banana cream pie because much of it looks the same to me.
I see colors but I see them differently than most. I have a real problem telling red, greens and browns apart, and blues and purples. I can tell yellow from blue or red but not yellow from chartruse. You just learn to live with it.
Deer hunting for over 40 years with this brings on some challenges, but also I believe it is helpful in some small ways. I had an optometrist tell me many years ago about a study (US Military) performed that showed that color blind people can more easily distinguish shapes and pick out objects in hidden or camouflaged scenarios. The natural coloration used to conceal an animal has no impact of visual recognition. I do know that I can pick out deer from long distances in cover long before my son of hunting buddy can see them. When I went on a guided elk hunt in Wyoming I was spotting all of the elk before my two guides were. You brain learns to utilize what you do have, those with normal color vision use it, those that don't adapt to different vision identification, more shape oriented.
Being color blind also makes be slow down big time when blood trailing a deer for obvious reasons. It has also forced me to be very careful about shot selection and when I hunt. As primarily a bowhunter for over 20 years and hunting multiple states each year I would not take a shot if it was raining or getting ready to rain unless I had someone with me that I trusted to be able to properly follow a blood trail. I can follow a blood trail and other sign of a hit deer it just takes me longer than some. I have been very fortunate to have never lost a deer, ever, but I used help more than a few times. I really think that not being able to see some color has allowed me to see (required to utilize)other things more clearly
Color blindness and hunting is no real issue and may even provide some benefit of slowing everything down a little. Clothes shopping is something else altogether however.
You just learn to deal with it, it's not like we have a choice.