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Hunters who cannot find their blaze orange cap when they are ready to head out the door for Wisconsin’s gun deer season Nov. 22 should not grab a more accessible brown camouflage one.

Keep looking. Having it on your head is part of the blaze orange law.

A hat or other head covering, if worn, must be at least 50 percent blaze orange. This rule was put in place in 1980. Earlier, in 1951, orange clothing was introduced and was included under the red clothing law.

Last year, Jon King, statewide Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources hunter education spokesperson in Dodgeville, provided each field warden three blaze orange caps to give out to hunters who didn't have the correct head gear.

“Through my federal grant, the Pittman-Robertson Act, I am allowed to use some money to promote safe hunting practices,” King said.

King went in a different direction a year ago and now, rather than spending so much money on newspaper, television and radio ads promoting safe hunting, he purchased 800 caps this year, about five for each warden.

Instead of issuing a citation for improper blaze orange clothing, they have the prerogative to hand the hunter a blaze orange cap (with the excpectation that it is to be worn).