Hunting and Flashlights

Levi Garrett

Levi Garrett

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And no , don't go there :D
The question is , what do you carry for a flashlight, for blood trailing , and how does it compare to what you did use prior to an upgrade.
There are some real good ones out there, that are not long range , but really light up the area up close.
Can also add any other tricks that help you recover game at night.
After all its a must!!! to make every effort to recover game eh! Never quit looking :cool:
 
I've been looking at the Greber blood light but would like to hear how well they work before I get one. Most of the time I use a LED headlight for hunting/camping. Hands free is a nice feature for a light, especially for gutting.
 
I use a Princeton tec Apex, IMO it's the best headlamp out there. I just bought a Princeton Tec Quad for the smaller jobs.

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I have a little LED flaslight that came with my Multi Tool.
It is extremely small and has one of those adjustable necks, like a pipe cleaner, #### what do you call that.

Anyhow, it lights up both sides of a regular footpath, and about 4 feet ahead of you, i love it. Those headlamps in LED rock too. Had one, it was stolen.
It was by far the best.

Soemthing else I had. When I first started at the hospital out here, I was given a pen light as a little going away gift.
I would have it always in my chest pocket. IT WAS SOOOOO BRIGHT !!!

One night I got home after a late shift and went straight to bed. Pulled off my shirt in the dark and as the shirt came over my head, the light flicked on right in my eye in the dead of dark.

I was at leat 20 minutes seeing purple spots trying to find my way aroung the room!!!! It was hilarious. The battery was not replaceable though:rolleyes:
 
I now use one of the small (& cheap) LED headlamps. It is very light and bright enough for heading back to camp and especially convienent for gutting that deer shot at last light.

For tracking, I recently added one of the Streamlight UV Stylus pen lights to my pack. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but it should light up a blood trail in the dark.:cool:
 
I recently upgraded my mini-maglights with the Nite Eyz (sp?) LED's. I have the white, blue, red and green. I carry all of them with me in my pack. It gives me the option of using whatever color of light that suits my current need. They were cheap and work extremely well.

-Jason
 
I use a surefire G2, awsome light, 60 lumens which is extremely bright. Costs around $40 Can. at Bass Pro. Lasts for 70 minutes on a battery change. I tried the Gerber Carnivour "blood light" this year and was not impressed at all, it is supposed to make the blood glow but I found it was not nearly bright enough in the colour mode, what a waste of money.
 
fogducker said:
well with all the knowledge of you out westerners......alls i hear is we bait and hunt from our trucks:p ;) .......so i have to vote for the hi-beams;) :p
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Hey dog####er: I resemble that remark:dancingbanana: Oh I mean resnet..Ooops I'm alos dislecksi...whatever:p
 
I've been looking at the Greber blood light but would like to hear how well they work before I get one.
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I just got a new 'heat seeker' with one of those built in, but i'll teach you a little trick.

Use your regular headlamp. Then, go buy yourself a cheap little single led penlight - you can get keychain ones for 5 bucks or so - that you can flick on and off fast.

When you're tracking the blood trail - hold the red led out in front of you and flick it on and off.

Here's how those things work - the 'white-blue' light of your headlamp tends to wash out the colour red. When the red led is used - anything red reflects it very very well. So when you flicker the red LED - blood tends to 'jump out' at you as a blinking object.

It works pretty darn good actually. And it's a lot cheaper than the bloodlamp. To try it - go tear some tiny bits of red paper up and put them on the floor, turn your lights out and give it a shot. You'll notice you see the 'red' dots very quick and easy. Unless you have a red carpet. Then you're screwed.
 
I carry a small Petzel headlamp as well as one of the flaslight I bought on the board. They are LED and came with a rechargeable battery but can also use CR123 batteries. I have 4 spare batteries for it and that should last me 24hrs non-stop use. All this weigths under a pound in my pack.

Troutseeker
 
I fell for the Gerber-whatever-its-called.
Wife works in hospital, so went into a dark room with 4 nurses :)eek: ) and one poked her finger. Could see the drops easy, on the WHITE floor. Tryed on a black garbage bag, and drops showed up a little better than with a dim ordinary flashlite. Fortunately didn't have to test it in field conditions this year, but over-all I think its one more item on the looooong list of impulse buys that I wasted money on. Specially since I've recently seen it for 20 bucks less than the "sale price" I bought it for.

Just my .02
 
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