In the state of Alabama do you have to wear orange during firearm season when you are up in the tree?

Unless it’s changed. No not if you are 12 feet high

Yep! This is what I've always gone by.

Above is correct but you have to ware it until you get up in the stand.

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 12, September 30, 2024
Section 220-2-.85 - Hunter Orange Requirement For Hunting And Definition Of Open Permit-Public Land
(1) During dates and in areas open by regulation to gun deer season, including youth deer season and muzzleloader deer season, all persons hunting any wildlife species, except foxes, raccoons and opossums during legal nighttime hours or turkey, or migratory birds (including crows), are required to wear an outer garment above the waist with a minimum of 144 square inches of hunter orange or either a full size hunter orange hat or cap. Hunters are not required to wear hunter orange when hunting from a stand elevated twelve (12) feet or more from the ground, when hunting in an enclosed box stand, when traveling in an enclosed vehicle, or when traveling on foot no more than twenty feet directly between an operating enclosed vehicle and a stand where the hunter is exempt from the hunter orange requirement. The hunter orange must be worn when traveling on foot between an operating enclosed vehicle and exempt stand when the distance is more than a direct distance of twenty feet. A small logo and/or printing is permitted on the front of hunter orange caps; otherwise, hunter orange must be of solid color and visible from any angle. Only hunter orange, commonly called blaze orange, ten mile cloth, etc., is legal. The various shades of red as well as camo orange are not legal.
(2) "Open Permit-Public Land" is defined as governmentally owned land open for public hunting and/or lands made available to the public on an individual basis whether for a fee or not. Examples of such lands would be national forest lands, lands owned by lumber companies and utility companies available for use by hunters either through free permits, fee permits or no permit requirement.
Ala. Admin. Code r. 220-2-.85

Effective October 19, 1985. Amended: Effective June 13, 1986; September 13, 1986; October 22, 1987. Emergency amendment effective September 23, 1988. Amended: Effective December 21, 1988; November 16, 1989. Amended: Filed September 10, 1997; effective October 16, 1997. Amended: Filed August 11, 1998; effective September 16, 1998. Amended: Filed October 23, 2007; effective November 27, 2007. Amended: Filed July 15, 2011, effective August 19, 2011.
Amended by Alabama Administrative Monthly Volume XXXIII, Issue No. 08, May 29, 2015, eff. 6/19/2015.
Author: M. Barnett Lawley

Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 9-2-7, 9-2-8, 9-2-12.

PENALTY: As provided by law.

Only if you want to wear it.

I quit hunting in the places where it wasn’t needed many moons ago…

Same.

If I'm hunting on a family members private land, am I required to wear orange? What if I am the land owner?

Gotta wear it.

By the law , yes . During deer season you have to wear it if your hunting almost any thing other than deer too . Got to wear it if you rabbit , squirrel , hog hunting too

I don’t wear it on our private place. Years ago I was bow hunting it and a hunter from the bordering timber co decided to take a little walk wearing his orange vest. He got the idea when that arrow stuck in the ground about 4 feet in front of his foot. I yelled at him that he needs to go back where he came from. He had no idea where I was at and couldn’t find me.

I'll wear my orange hat on our lease, just because I never know who might be out there.

I wear a hat the whole time I’m in the woods. I’ve never understood to dislike of wearing an orange hat or the people who take it off when they get to 12 feet. I’m not worried about getting shot, but it’s just how I’ve always done it.

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You are definitely gonna see me if I’m in the woods during firearms season. Never know when our crack head neighbors might decide to take an adventure onto our property. Heck when we used to hunt public ground I had a pair of blaze orange coveralls I’d wear. You could pick me up on satellite. I like to be seen.