Color blindness

Just realized yesterday, at the ripe old age of 37 years old that I’m color blind. Long story short but it started from tracking a deer (first time I’ve tracked a deer blood trail that wasn’t in snow) and not being able to see blood spots on brown and green leaves that others were able to easily see.

It got me to thinking and I knew my nephew was color blind and I knew it was hereditary. So I decided to take several different online tests and they all came back with the same result – deutan color blind. Sent the same test to my brother and he found out he is also color blind (which makes sense based on the genetics). It got me thinking that I’m surprised standard vision tests don’t test for color at all. Essentially you’ll never know you’re color blind unless you somehow find out on your own. Pretty funny stuff.

Anyone else color blind here?

Here is one of the better tests for anyone else thats curious. It takes like 1 minute. Make sure you turn any blue light filters off and turn your brightness all the way up

https://enchroma.com/pages/color-blindness-test

I think Aaron Wiebe is color blind too isnt that why he has the different colored lenses?
Anyways, glad you found this out weird it took this long. What does a stop sign look like or any red sign for that matter?

I’m still trying to figure out what colors I am limited in being able to see. This picture is a good depiction of what limitations the different type of color blindness has. I have deutan, so I’d be upper right in this pic.

I don’t believe Wiebe is. I ordered those same sunglasses he has (one lens is red and one is green) and it has nothing to do with color blindness. They’re only that way for fashion or whatever you want to call it.

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Interesting. I certainly may be wrong about Wiebe, but I thought I remember him actually saying that once. I might have imagined it too.

Gitchi Gummi wrote:

Anyone else color blind here?

My youngest son is color blind. Quite severely actually. The entire male line of my wife’s family is color blind so it wasn’t exactly a surprise.

It is extremely annoying with children because so many school exercises are reliant on seeing color. This despite the fact that one in 12 males is colorblind. We routinely see exercises for example where it will say how many red and how many green of something are there? Well how the hell would a color blind boy know?

And despite constantly nagging the teachers they have about a 4 second memory. They just happily mark all these colored dependent exercises wrong and it never even occurs to them.

To be honest I have to suspect that if nearly as many women were color blind as men, it would be taking a lot more seriously. Everything with boys is instantly written off as inattention or ADHD.

To me blue and gray are the same color.

I once took a brother of a friend pheasant hunting and he shot a hen because he was colorblind. Coudln’t see the colors of the rooster for verification.

That was the one and only time he came with.

back in the day when i was welding stainless…….we where getting orders for stainless steel vessels that needed to be X-rayed……..that meant 100% weld penetration……….so we had to dye check them. it was surprising how many were color blind. they couldnt to the dye check.

my brother is color blind………i am not. at stop lights…he can tell what light is lit up and going by the order there in.

We were tested for color blindness in school by the librarian/nurse every year through elementary. Same time they tested our hearing.

Red Eye wrote:

We were tested for color blindness in school by the librarian/nurse every year through elementary. Same time they tested our hearing.

I remember getting vision tests every year in school but they were not color oriented at all. It was just reading small letters on various rows. I’ve had 20/10 vision for as long as I can remember but just was never tested for color blindness

gim wrote:

I once took a brother of a friend pheasant hunting and he shot a hen because he was colorblind. Coudln’t see the colors of the rooster for verification.
That was the one and only time he came with.

funny you say that because my core group of guys I pheasant hunt with is myself and 2 others. One of those guys is color blind (he is protan color blind – so different than mine) which means with my diagnosis, 2/3rds of our group is color blind. We’ve never shot a hen tho! Call em out when you see them and if you aren’t sure, you don’t shoot.

Gitchi Gummi wrote:

funny you say that because my core group of guys I pheasant hunt with is myself and 2 others. One of those guys is color blind (he is protan color blind – so different than mine) which means with my diagnosis, 2/3rds of our group is color blind. We’ve never shot a hen tho! Call em out when you see them and if you aren’t sure, you don’t shoot.

That’s one way to do it I guess, if you hunt in a group. I pretty much just hunt solo with the dog. The less noise, the better.

I agree with you on the part about being unable to verify what it is.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

My youngest son is color blind. Quite severely actually. The entire male line of my wife’s family is color blind so it wasn’t exactly a surprise.

Yes it is predominantly in males because color blindness is linked to the X chromosome and is passed down from the mother. This is because men get their X chromosome from their mother and the father provides the Y chromosome . Women have two XX chromosomes, so even if they get one X (i.e. one side of the family) that has the color blind gene (lets call it X*), if their other X chromosome (from the other side of the family) does not have the color blind gene, they will not be color blind because the X overrides the X*. So for a female to be color blind, both X chromosomes (the one from mom and dad) both have to include the color blind gene.

Since men only get one X chromosome and it comes from the mom, if the mom is colorblind, her sons are pretty much guaranteed to also be color blind. And then even if the mom isn’t colorblind but carries the X* gene, its a 50/50 shot if the male kids will be colorblind or not depending which X chromosome she passes down. Genetics is fascinating stuff!

gim wrote:

The less noise, the better

Couldn’t agree more. My group started using walkie talkies this year when pheasant hunting in SD so we don’t have to yell to each other anymore and can be as stealthy as possible. Can’t believe it took us this long to realize walkie talkies are an incredible tool for stealth pheasant hunting with a group. And before anyone asks, yes its legal in SD.

Totally color blind. I really struggle with computer monitors. Red letters in black background or vice versa cannot read. Yes stop lights are OK. I see only one shade of a light blue.

Red dots on a rifle sight are worthless. Glow green is good It’s white to me but the contrast is what I need. The book 50 shades of grey was a let down for me.

I’d always fail the color blind tests when I had physicals. Finally had an eye doctor give me one and he said I had bad taste and that I wasn’t color blind. After the joke he said I had some color issues but it was more of a depth perception issue. The only time I know I see things a bit different is when it comes to jig colors. I’ll tell my buddy’s I caught fish on chartreuse and they’ll tell me that’s green (or vice versa). All I know for sure is what worked for me and they can call it what they want…

Took the attached test.. I can see normal.. up to one million different colors.

Had a good fishing buddy, God rest his soul. Quite a few years back now we were ice fishing crappies in a marshy lake by Hutchinson. He whooped up on me every time. Finally one day he says “you need to use a blue hook”. Went to the store bought every version of blue available. We go out, schools me again. I said “Craig let me see that damn hook”. I Said “its fricken purple.” He said “didnt you know me and both my brothers are color blind. Dang I miss that guy.

Yup color blind here. Thank god I don’t have to buy match a tie and socks every day.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

To me blue and gray are the same color.

Impossible, they’re spelled different.

That’s a good point about it being included in standard vision tests— it should be!

Gitchi Gummi wrote:

Genetics is fascinating stuff!

Sure is. Doing punnet squares was one of my favorite parts of science/biology classes in school. I’m just a few years younger than you so I’m sure we had similar classes!

And HOLD up! Walkie-talkies for calling out “hen” or “rooster”?? How do you manage ID the bird, raise your gun, push the button and relay the info all in a quick, possibly loud and probably hectic moment? This system I would have to see to believe it works smoothly…

My optometrist has me do a color test every exam. I had no idea it wasn’t standard thing to do. Seems weird not to do it, it takes like 30 seconds of flipping though some cards.

LabDaddy1 wrote:

And HOLD up! Walkie-talkies for calling out “hen” or “rooster”?? How do you manage ID the bird, raise your gun, push the button and relay the info all in a quick, possibly loud and probably hectic moment? This system I would have to see to believe it works smoothly…

the walkies aren’t used for calling out birds. like you mentioned – that happens too fast. the walkies are for communicating during the push. Rather than yelling out to the guy next to you to slow down, speed up, flank left, hook right, etc, you just talk on the walkies. You can only communicate so much with hand signals and yelling to the guy 40 yards from you is without a doubt spooking birds. I think effective communication is a critical component to successful pheasant hunting. All it takes is one guy deviating from the plan to blow up an entire field. Calling out roosters/hens without a doubt spooks birds but I think its important to the success of a hunt to do so and we are extra cautious to not shoot hens. If a bird flushes from the right side of a push and flies to the left, if you can give the guy on the far left an extra second or two to get ready for a rooster, that significantly increases the success rate.

At least for my group, communicating during the push is important because its not as easy as just walking straight down the field. When hunting draws and winding sloughs, there’s a lot of shifting as far as who is walking where. Like often one guy on a certain side may need to push up more or less depending on the corner/wind/draw/etc. And often the most used phrase on the walkies is “hey so and so, slow down!”. I’m a firm believer that 90% of pheasant hunters walk way too fast and blow right by birds.

Reef W wrote:

My optometrist has me do a color test every exam. I had no idea it wasn’t standard thing to do. Seems weird not to do it, it takes like 30 seconds of flipping though some cards.

How often do you get an eye exam? Maybe I’m in the minority but I do not get regular eye exams. Perhaps those with poor vision (i.e. those with glasses/contacts/lasik) do which would make sense. I can’t even remember the last time I got an eye exam but then again, I have great vision (minus the color blindness lol). They do not give eye exams at my annual physicals either.

Gitchi Gummi wrote:

How often do you get an eye exam? Maybe I’m in the minority but I do not get regular eye exams. Perhaps those with poor vision (i.e. those with glasses/contacts/lasik) do which would make sense.

I have contacts/glasses so every year or two.

I’m color blind. Have 3 nephews and 2 out of 3 grandsons are.