Probably! Although I’d really expect it to just brush out once dry?
When I was at the trail barn, I was considering something like this during hunting season. https://equisafety.com/products/equisafety-mcnbo
I’ll see if I can dig up the color on this pad too, one from LeMieux a couple years ago.
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I have the LeMieux pad in tangerine and it is a nice bright orange even if it’s not technically “blaze orange.”
I also have a fleece, blaze orange helmet cover that keeps your neck warm. It’s great on cooler and breezy days.
I also have a lightweight jacket designed for runners that I put on over whatever else I’m wearing that is blaze orange with some reflective strips on the back and arms. It makes you very visible.
ULINE makes a number of jackets and vests both in orange and in hi-viz green for riders.
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Because orange means DONT SHOOT to hunters. It’s actually the color recommended by all the shared use trails here, stated on their maps. It’s also the color hunters are required to wear or face being ticketed by game wardens.
It’s not necessarily for visibility, per say. It’s universal for “don’t shoot me”.
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I’m not sure this is the same seller as the one I bought from on Etsy, but the cover looks the same:
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Accidentally deleted my post. I bought this helmet cover on Amazon in 2019 and it fits the same as when I bought it. Made in the USA
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This is the vest I have in orange, bought on Amazon. I also wear this when riding on the road:
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I’ve never understood why orange when that’s one of the colors of the woods in the Fall.
I mean, I know it’s supposed to mean “don’t shoot me” but that only works if the guy with the gun doesn’t have cataracts and can actually differentiate you from the background.
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Or isn’t a psycho who shoots anything that moves.
That’s why I don’t go early in the morning in the shared areas, even though that’s my ideal time. I let them FIRMLY finish their hunt, then I head out. 2-3 hours after sunrise, they “should” be done.
I purchased a hi viz mesh orange quarter sheet from equisafety.com that I really like. My orange oversize pad came from dark horse equestrian UK but it doesn’t look like they sell them anymore. I don’t use an orange helmet cover but I do have hi viz hatband from ridereye.co.UK - they also sell the hat band with an led light.
For fleece helmet covers, riding skirts, neck guitars and fly veils I highly recommend Dapple Grey Mare Designs. She often has things already made or if you want a particular color or fabric you can send it to her
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In Ohio at least, I believe bow season starts end of Sept/early Oct. Gun season for deer doesn’t start until the leaves are well off the trees and ends in Feb. The orange is still pretty visible leaves or not.
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It is, kind of. Day-glo or blaze orange is a totally different hue than anything in the woods - that’s why I want blaze orange and not just any-old-orange.
All of the high viz colors, barring maybe neon pink, is out there in the woods in the fall. The orange is the legal color, and should anyone do the unthinkable and hurt one of my animals, I want to be in the correct color so there is no excuse.
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Hilason makes a bright orange saddle bag that might be helpful. Endurance folks might have more recommendations.
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The color of our orange stuff was “paprika”. It’s not quite the blaze bright but it was close.
Deer eyes can’t see hunter’s orange; that’s why. People can see it but deer can’t. So really any vis color should work if you’re appealing to the (sane) people and not the deer. But orange is so traditional it’s worth opting for just to stay as safe as possible.
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Well that makes a lot of sense!
I have an Orange Schockemöhle Dressage pad, you are more than welcome to have it. Used a couple of times, still in great shape.
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I got a hi-vis orange helmet cover and ear bonnet on Etsy, made by ChesnuthorseDesign. Both times she didn’t have quite what I wanted so I contacted her and she did a custom order. Great customer service!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1790989235/horse-bonnet-in-bright-orange-mesh-with
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I didn’t know that! Thank you for the explaination.
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