Blaze pink is an option to hunter orange

When hunters start stocking up on hunting clothes later this summer, they  will have an alternative to hunter orange — blaze pink.
Deer hunter Caitlyn Estes of Eunice said, “It’s a good thing for girls who want to wear it. I’m not much of a pink person, but it’s good for those who hunt and want to wear it.”
“I didn’t even know they wanted to add pink until my step-dad told me the other day,” she added.
According to the 2015-2016 Louisiana hunting regulations, anyone hunting any wildlife during the open firearms deer hunting season and possessing buckshot, slugs, a primitive firearm or a centerfire firearm must display on their head, chest or back a total of not less than 400 square inches of hunter orange.
Exceptions include: those hunting private land may wear a hat instead of the 400 square inches; those hunting deer from elevated stands on private property, but he or she is required to display the 400 square inches or a hunter orange cap or hat while walking to and from elevated stands if hunting on lands where hunting with firearms is allowed; not required of archery deer hunters hunting on lands where firearm hunting is not allowed by agreement of the landowner or lessee.
While hunting on the state’s wildlife management areas, all hunters, except  waterfowl hunters and mourning dove hunters, must display 400 square inches of hunter orange and wear a hunter orange cap during open firearms seasons for deer.
Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the law Friday.
Louisiana is the third state to approve the bill. Wisconsin legalized hunter pink in March, and Colorado approved the measure in April. Hunter Pink bills are also making their way through the legislatures of New York and Minnesota.  
Hunting shop owners said they would get blaze pink items if customers ask for them.
Guy Fontenot, owner of Double Action Outdoors, said, “I’ll be asking around to customers in the next few weeks. I might get a little blaze pink gear, the hats and vests, but I will probably wait to check it out and see if there is a demand.”
Fontenot said he plans to put his hunting clothes out in August.
He added, “I had a customer mention the addition of blaze pink last week.”
Mike Hebert, owner of Eunice Archery Range and Gear, said he stocks hunter orange vests but he does not plan to add blaze pink gear unless someone wants clothing in that color.
“No one has come in asking for it yet,” Hebert said. “Most archery hunters don’t have to wear hunter orange, and when they do, it’s usually just the hat.
“It’s good that they added it. I’ve heard the blaze pink show up just as good or better than the hunter orange.”