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    Rifle lights........

    For night pest destruction on private property I have been using a variety of lights on my rifles. Some are rifle mounted, some are headlamps like Lenser H 14's.
    One thing I have noticed is that LED lights pick up all sorts of foreign crap floating in the air. ( Pollen, moisture etc) As an experiment I dragged out my 30yr old rifle mounted 'Lifelite' spot lamp and immediately noticed 2 main advantages......

    1. Being a soft yellow light any animals picked up continued to look at the light instead of turning away.
    2. Even in rain and fog, visibility of objects in the light improved drastically and there was a resulting lack of glare being reflected back on the 'shooter'.
    I normally dont shoot beyond ranges of 75-100m and have now reverted to using the Lifelite as my go to light for shooting, reserving the LEd's for walking and general light.

    Just wondering if others have had the same experience.

    Here are a couple of boars shot using the lifelite last week.......when lit up both of them continued feeding and the light didnt bother them at all........others seen the same night immediately ran for the hills when lit up with led/cree chip lights.........Maybe they simply regarded the lifelite as a full moon......

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    now after repairing over 1200 led "hunting lights" as well as HID, halogen etc there is a reason. halogen and HID have a huge infra red spectrum which especially on rabbit makes them stare down the beam and startled. i did some tests and put an IR filter on a led light and my night vision just wouldnt know if it was switched on or not.
    i just fitted a single IR LED to a 7 LED spotlight for a customer and he says it works wonders.
    i could go into it further but most people would think its a boring subject. PM me if you want more info
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    Quote Originally Posted by gonetropo View Post
    now after repairing over 1200 led "hunting lights" as well as HID, halogen etc there is a reason. halogen and HID have a huge infra red spectrum which especially on rabbit makes them stare down the beam and startled. i did some tests and put an IR filter on a led light and my night vision just wouldnt know if it was switched on or not.
    i just fitted a single IR LED to a 7 LED spotlight for a customer and he says it works wonders.
    i could go into it further but most people would think its a boring subject. PM me if you want more info
    I think it's deLIGHTful!
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    Quote Originally Posted by canuck hunter View Post
    I think it's deLIGHTful!
    cheers, but if you are a leafs fan i will put you on ignore !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gonetropo View Post
    cheers, but if you are a leafs fan i will put you on ignore !!
    Even if I was I wouldn't admit it. LOL
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    Have you ever had the problem of having a light on top of your scope and the light just blurs the target area and target.
    Im not sure if its just from the zoom of the scope or the glare of the light is affecting the scope..
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    A bit of current through some tungsten makes for a much more pleasant light than LEDs. LEDs are not able to give a normal spectrum of white light - it's actually a mix of red, blue, maybe some green. And far too much blue content, and blue light scatters more, penetrates less, blinds/irritates animals more, as you've discovered.

    LEDs of course require less power to run but battery technology has caught up and glow lamps should really come out of the cupboards now you no longer have to bring along a boy to carry the lead-acid accumulator.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jusepy View Post
    Have you ever had the problem of having a light on top of your scope and the light just blurs the target area and target.
    Im not sure if its just from the zoom of the scope or the glare of the light is affecting the scope..
    I got shocking haze from a scope-mounted torch on a gun with a stainless barrel. I've now mounted the torch under the rifle forend via picatinny rail and the problem has gone away.
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    I have hunted with someone who had a cheap hand held led with a red chip. Brilliant, it held animals for ages and has about 175 to 200 metres of useable range. Think it was stealth brand or something. No detectable scattering one in a maxtoch would be ideal I think.
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    My Maxtoch is a red LED. I've posted about it before. I like it. Pigs don't seem to mind it, although they simply may not be educated to it. Rabbits are quite variable in their response.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gonetropo View Post
    now after repairing over 1200 led "hunting lights" as well as HID, halogen etc there is a reason. halogen and HID have a huge infra red spectrum which especially on rabbit makes them stare down the beam and startled. i did some tests and put an IR filter on a led light and my night vision just wouldnt know if it was switched on or not.
    i just fitted a single IR LED to a 7 LED spotlight for a customer and he says it works wonders.
    i could go into it further but most people would think its a boring subject. PM me if you want more info
    How would a red LED go compared to to a std white one? I see some red LED lights for sale online
    And what about a filter on a white LED light will it make any difference
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    I used a stud mounted picatinny rail from Accu Long Range. They also make a "wedge" that goes between the rail and the rifle to bring the mount in to parallel with the barrel. They do need to be pointing in the same direction! Even with that, it took a little trimming with some bicycle inner tube to get it just right.

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    yeah ive only had the spotlight setup on my air rifles , im yet to put the spotlight setup on my 22 mag and try it.
    The rabbits I will be shooting with my air rifle will be under 30 m so I cant really put the spotlight on the bottom of the barrel as its a break barrel.
    Ive come up with using my bike light and battery to spot them while I line them up and shoot them... yet too be successful !
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    @Phil_H you could try taping a toilet roll over end of light maybe cut top half out so you have shadow falling on barrel but full light everywhere else....sort of a scope sunshade in reverse.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    @Phil_H you could try taping a toilet roll over end of light maybe cut top half out so you have shadow falling on barrel but full light everywhere else....sort of a scope sunshade in reverse.

    I like this idea and will try it !!
    Patience Is A Virtue

 

 

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