I personally wouldn’t ride in an area open to hunting during hunting season if it were possible to ride elsewhere. Fortunately where I am, there isn’t land open to any kind of hunting for 20 miles, so not an issues. If I had no choice, I’d wear a lot of blaze orange/hunters orange, run with a lot of lights and use my loudest bluetooth speaker.

Rude to hunters? Not intentionally, it’s not my cup of tea, but I live in a deer infested area - nuisance or worse, I wish they could be controlled to do less damage - if it were legal in my back yard I’d invite hunters in. I bear no ill-will towards hunters, but I would enjoy a bit of revenge served cold against the hooved, antlered mega-sized rats, which is what deer in suburbia are, for years of decimated tulips, hosta beds turned to salad bars, and numerous damaged or destroyed young trees from bucks rubbing off the velvet and sharpening the points. I’m just not familiar with hunting culture or etiquette, but I’m under the assumption that the motion and noise of the cyclist is enough to scare away deer. My theory of bright and noisy is about self-preservation.

The relatively loud music - no portable bluetooth speaker is very loud at even 100 feet, but should be audible - would be an insurance policy to cement the concept in the mind of even the most inebriated or unobservant hunter that the moving obhect passing by in blaze orange with strobing LEDs and Green Day playing is NOT to be shot at.