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Can Going Pink Draw More Female Hunters?

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 29 2016, @10:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the as-long-as-it-looks-fabulous dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Laws to permit the colour "blaze pink" for hunters have been proposed in five states in the US. How did this become a legislative trend?

As the legislative session drew to a close last week at the Minnesota state capitol, a curious piece of legislation became the focus of ire for lawmakers - a bill to make something called "blaze pink" legal for hunters to wear.
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Last spring, Wisconsin Representative Nick Milroy had the idea that "blaze pink" might also be an acceptable safety colour as well as a way to get some new blood into the sport.

He even got a textile scientist at a local university to investigate whether there were any safety concerns.

"The fastest growing segment in new recruits into hunting are females, and that's one of the big reasons that companies have been marketing things like pink camouflage, pink guns, pink knives," he says.

Participation in hunting in the US has been on the decline for decades, and the sport is overwhelmingly dominated by men.

Safety Orange to become Safety Pink?

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by ilPapa on Monday May 30 2016, @10:22PM

    by ilPapa (2366) on Monday May 30 2016, @10:22PM (#352788) Journal

    That's not quite true, there's been a few times I've followed a blood trail to its end and never found a fresh kill, or found it way down inside a deep ravine that's nearly impossible to even winch it out of. Lost a few expensive arrows that way too.

    It takes a real man to kill defenseless creatures. What are you compensating for?

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  • (Score: 2) by fliptop on Tuesday May 31 2016, @03:39AM

    by fliptop (1666) on Tuesday May 31 2016, @03:39AM (#352912) Journal

    What are you compensating for?

    Nothing. I'm just hungry. And it's practically free.

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    • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Tuesday May 31 2016, @01:03PM

      by ilPapa (2366) on Tuesday May 31 2016, @01:03PM (#353032) Journal

      Nothing. I'm just hungry. And it's practically free.

      That's what all hunters say. Hunting "for food" is just a gateway drug. You start out shooting a squirrel for stew and you end up like these assholes:

      http://www.oregonherald.com/bnews/i/95.jpg [oregonherald.com]

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2016, @04:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2016, @04:53PM (#353106)

        I don't hunt for food. I kill and leave the poor, innocent, dead animals to rot just to piss off jerks like you.

        Head shots are best when they blow animal brains out onto the trees...

        Lick it up, chattel.