Excellent post,Skunk Hunter,and a fine Reality Check as to what Dumpster Dan & the team go thru,daily.
I've been guilty of greed,being a latecomer.
And I'll try to curb that tendency.

But to answer Dumpster Dan about color?

1.Blaze Orange
2.Black.
3.Gray
4.Red
5.Mud Brown
6.Toxic green...see below*.

Mudder/SS4/more INFI.Or 154.

*And a Scrap Yard cross between a hatchet,a machete & a cleaver.At least 1/4" thick at the spine.At least 12" of blade;at least 4" from spine to business edge.No fancy hook or tip or point;just squared off.Something in the 3# class;strong enough to dig with.And a toxic green Mudder handle with a lanyard hole.
CadaverDog!

~Gnarly