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Topic: Red lenses/color blindness.
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Doggitter
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posted February 04, 2006 10:55 PM
Color blindness in me I mean. What's the consensus on color blind people using a red lense? Will I be able to see anything, see it as something totally different than normal,,, ???? Red is my big problem, as I hear it is with most fellas afflicted.
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onecoyote
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posted February 05, 2006 09:35 AM
Doggitter, I'm also color blind to a point. I don't have a problem seeing eyes with the red light, I do think I see different colors then most others.
When using a burn light " white" I think I see what everbody else sees, goldish for cats and blueish white for coyotes.
Using a red light I still see goldish for cats and blueish for coyotes, the same thing?
Others say they see red eyes all the time using red lights?
I guess it's a color blind thing, I don't know. Bottom line is you'll see eyes just fine using a red light. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Leonard
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posted February 05, 2006 10:14 AM
I went through life smug in the knowledge that I had near perfect vision, and I wasn't color blind. How did I know this? The Army asks you to look at some cards with a bunch of dots and tell them if you see a number.
All was fine until I changed jobs and had a physical, years ago. They hauled out the same type of cards and asked my if I saw a number imbedded in the varicolored dots. I was bored, but she kept at it, until she showed me one particular card and all I saw was (like) a snow pattern on the TV when the satellite dish goes out. She even told me what the number was and I tried like hell to pick it out.
Turns out that I do have a touch of color blindness involving slight shades of grays and blues and I had never been shown that card, before.
But, do I see every color of the rainbow? Yes. I just can't distinguish between a couple shades of blue and gray, but I see dozens of different shades of those same colors.
With a white spotlight, especially on a cold night, a coyote's eyes looks electric blue and a bobcat usually looks amber, but sometimes green and sometimes white.
Under a red hunting light, they all look pretty much red or orange, to me.
By the way, it has been said before that predators can't see a red light, but I don't believe it. I have seen them purposely avert their eyes and not look at a red light, at certain times. It's one of those things when they are especially light shy. They know it's there, but won't look at it so that their eyes reflect. Figure that one out.
Danny, I probably did tell a few San Gabriel guys about Dykem but I thought they were so hard headed and locked into their gear that they wouldn't try it so I gave up talking about it, but every one you mention hunted for San Gabriel, at one time or another.
Good hunting. LB
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Doggitter
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posted February 05, 2006 12:11 PM
Been wanting to try some night stuff for a long time and figured I'd ask before driving to Nv. to find out I goofed in preperations.
Leonard, you're the first I've personally heard of with an other than red problem.
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Leonard
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posted February 05, 2006 12:21 PM
I really don't know? But, most of those cards that they show you are "camoed" in salmons and sea foam green.
Good hunting. LB
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