I'm used to wearing orange because it was required in NYS where I hunted for many years. You have to shoot FAST when hunting grouse and cottontails in the typical heavy cover and orange helps you know where your companions are very quickly. If you don't know, you don't shoot.

I don't even know if it is required out here in CA; I wear it for the same reasons There are still drivers who insist that seat belts are an infringement on their individual rights. Part of the high cost of medical everything is the rest of US paying for THEIR traumatic injuries. I speak as someone who was rear-ended by an 18 wheeler at high speed and told by a VT state police investigator that without a seat belt I would certainly have been dead. "Or worse!" he said.

I've also seen what birdshot does to a human body at close range. If you think blaze orange is ugly, picture that.