Thread: Lasers for night hunting

Anyone tried one of those grunty green lasers for chasing bunnys.
Iv got one coming. More to play with than anything.
Just wondering if anyone has tried one successfully hunting


Sent from the swamp

I havent used one hunting but my uncle had one on a slug gun and we could shoot a can from the hip shot after shot. Cant be that bad if its on a slug gun with vibrating and so on

I had one on an air pistol once, dad got me to cull his chickens out one night, head shots at 5m. Not sure on longer ranges though.

I use a green laser. Really good especially on running targets.
Also have tried a laser designator instead of a scope mounted torch. Fantastic!!

They take a while to warm up and give the big green blaze, leave it on all the time to beat the warm up and it will kill the battery. They do have other uses though, if you are intolerant of a certain type of flying insect and feel the need to encourage it to leave........ I make no comment on weather that would be right or wrong to do though.

Laser pointer or laser illuminator?

If the latter, had a play with one one night while chasing wallabies.
It was scope mounted and hooked up to pressure switch.

Very tight beam, maybe 3-4m at 100m, so no good for scanning, but the approach we used was to walk along with the led spotlights until we saw something, then kill the lights and line up with just the laser to make the shot. The green light didn't seem to concern the animals, so you'd watch the wallaby happily feeding away while you lined up the shot.

Downsides were that it took a second or two for your eyes to translate from the white light to the green, and it also reduced contrast which made it a little more difficult to actually find what you were looking for through the scope. Not overly cheap either.

Was impressed with how undisturbed the animals were when lit up with it, also the tight beam could be considered a plus in some settings. Capable of plenty of range, too.

May end up shelling out for one, if I can't find a decent scope-mounted torch setup I like.

like this, pretty bright small beam, have lit up the bush out to a kilometer with it..
its got turrets on it to fine tune the aim. likely to be more of a toy than useful i think but il take it out and use it in conjunction to a sn6 to have a look

Have found them good from the back of a truck.
Also handy thing to mount to the main spotlight so the light guy can point out the bunny he can see that no one else can

Originally Posted by res

Have found them good from the back of a truck.
Also handy thing to mount to the main spotlight so the light guy can point out the bunny he can see that no one else can

Have used my Laser pointer from work for some time now for the same thing,very useful

Originally Posted by cambo

I use a green laser. Really good especially on running targets.
Also have tried a laser designator instead of a scope mounted torch. Fantastic!!

And I know where you saw that idea

Got a Nikko Laserking scope on my Marlin, with built in laser just activates off a pressure switch that's on the side of the stock.

Very handy for difficult angle shots and at night on possums, esp for showing their position to the other shooters. And handy at night for rabbits where a v quick from the hip shot works a treat

+1 for the laserking i use one on my .17 ackley hornet ;-P

I use a laser pointer on the floor in my kitchen, keeps the dog's entertained

I picked one up for a play a while ago (pointer, not designator) Best distance so far is 5 km.
I was shining it at the local scout group camping on a farm and the scout leader wouldn't believe that I was at home when doing it

Originally Posted by Pengy

I picked one up for a play a while ago (pointer, not designator) Best distance so far is 5 km.
I was shining it at the local scout group camping on a farm and the scout leader wouldn't believe that I was at home when doing it

5km? where'd you get that? I was looking at some on aliexpress but not sure if they'd go that far