Thread: Spotlight

Yep, they have a high, medium and low mode. Half press on the switch to cycle, or just flick off-then-on within a second or two.

If you leave it off longer than 5 or 10 seconds it will remember what mode was active when you switched it off..

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

What about backscatter, atmospheric conditions control how far you can see surely? I cant see the point in lugging an anti aircraft spotlight round and only being able to clearly identify a target to 200 m. Then theres the bloody moths it attracts. I run a ksn barrel mounted on a 22 and 223 in perfection conditions can id a hares body at 200 m normally 150, and would rarely shoot even that far because its like looking down a tunnel of smoke most nights. I have hunted with a guy with an hid spotlight brilliant amount of light but the only way the shooter could get a clear sight picture was to run 7-8 metres out the side to get away from the backscatter.

From memory I could read ear tags on cattle at 400m with an older de-domed Maxtoch mounted on my scope. De-domed they have a yellower light that seems to reflect less off particulate matter in the air and gives better definition.

That makes sense, longer wavelengths penetrate better in fog etc, most leds are blueish so shorter.

Yep blueish tint washes out colour - not so good for target definition downrange. The dedomed Maxtochs have a tint very similar to my old school halogen lights.

No optical problems shooting close to light - we use them scope mounted etc or as handhelds.

Also the Maxtochs are not zoom head pencil beam lights - we did not want that. Instead we chose good beam balance. They have very strong centre hot spot which gives long range, but led type which also gives alot of spill, allowing you to scan whole paddocks in a few seconds.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

From memory I could read ear tags on cattle at 400m with an older de-domed Maxtoch mounted on my scope. De-domed they have a yellower light that seems to reflect less off particulate matter in the air and gives better definition.

Cattle or deer?

Originally Posted by TeRei

Cattle or deer?

Sshhh! It was my little Marlin 980 22lr and just pulling off some Dundee shots.