Thanks for another great video Guys. My first hunts with my Dad back in the 70's was with the old Nite Lite and her swore by the Red lens cover. Seeing you all do it with the White lights is awesome.
very good point. especially in wide open paddocks. i do most of my hunting with a tree line behind me, but there are times exactly like this. Biggest thing i've found is wind direction and sound. a bit of wind in your face is a good thing to have.
As a teenager near Roswell, NM we’d “spot light” rabbits and other critters sometimes all night on family farms and ranches. As a senior citizen in Texas now my ScanPro and Wicked Lights on scopes is the best! I can’t justify the price of a thermal unless I get a thermal scanner. Thanks for the great videos. Keep it up.
I started night hunting Red Fox and Rabbits with a lamp i bought in a car parts shop, along with a Lead acid motorcycle battery over 40 years ago, so i’ve served my time, but it’s Thermal all the way for me now ! I wouldn’t kill a third of what I do now with a lamp. 🤔🏴
Great job. I use thermal because no one knows I am there. Have to talk to law enforcement to often with lights. Not doing anything wrong just to many nosy people.
Im glad you did a video explaining this. One question though, if you walk in to a spot that you can't drive in to do you run a headlamp on the way in to see where you're walking or only when you get to your spot?
What’s more of a trophy…. Lights, thermal, daylight hunting, hand call or e-call. What’s more of a trophy harvesting with a bow or a semi auto as men we all know what skill is….what hunting is….when you go “hunting” you have the choice to make those decisions. Personally I like the hardest ones. The simplest ones, sometimes you leave empty handed….sometimes god allows you to harvest. Either way it’s not about the kill
Had many years and success using the light before moving onto night vision but still using a light to spot for a few years before moving onto a thermal spotter. I always pick a spot with a good view for calling, put my remote caller out roughly about 60 yards so the fox has it's sights on that instead of me and then I get tucked into the shadows of an hedge. Link to a video where I was stood out in the open for around 9 minutes before I could get a safe shot on a vixen, the IR was on all the time and she didn't realise I was there until right at the end when it was too late.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jtAaMknVelE.htmlsi=Y2ZVz7NHm1XtKOQ7
I understand why hunting to coyote but what about the bobcat? I am from Central Europe, Hungary, and we have more and more golden jackals (was native but disappeared and after the Balkan wars the populatioan starting growth again). European lynx is very rare, maybe we have only an old male in Börzsöny mountains. Brown bear population is growing in Romania, Slovakia so more and more live here and also we have wolfs again.
The predators are coming to the sound. The light is "there" to them, but by keeping it on the animal as it approaches it does not see the light moving nor what is behind the light It is why the highways are littered with creatures, mainly hit at night. I am sure you are playing the wind also.
I have a question. Yall seem to be able to hunt many different places. If you used the lights exclusively in one place, do you think the animals would learn to associate the lights with death and avoid them?
I can answer that - you go back a few times to knock over pests on farms at night, they learn pretty quick.... Last time I used white light, the hares and rabbits just bolted and didn't look back - so Thermal and night vision was the logical step - they see less of me as a threat with zero white light. Thermal and NV work for me MUCH more effectively - animals ain't that dumb, they learn what danger looks like...
