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plowboy
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Posted: Sun Jun 24th, 2007 03:56 pm |
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| Mike, I found that nite lite is still making two models with flicker switches the Halgon pro and professional pro they come with amber and red lenses. I didnt see any of the green or blue lenses.Look on huntsmart.com click on lights.I also looked at cajun lights, prowler, bright eyes lights . they didnt show any models with the flickers switches anymore. Their lenses were red , amber and wheat colored.The flicker switches might not be as popular as they were 10 to 20 years ago. I still use mine.I will check with bama hunting supply to see if he still put them on his lights. Alot of the coon hunting light companies would do custom lights for people. I will check into this to see if they still would do that. The coon nunting lights have come a long way in the last 10 years .
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watch1
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Posted: Mon Jun 25th, 2007 12:20 am |
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PLOWBOY,
The Nite Lite lights are excellent lights. I have seen a few of the lights in operation and they are great. I see the The Predator model has this flicker switch. I have never seen this flicker work..but it sounds interesting.
When it comes to a light that will shine eyes better than anything I have ever seen and does not seem to spook the animals ..this shows how old I am..its hard to beat a carbide light. Carbide is just a pain but was a great invention in its time.
Thanks for the info and let me know if you find any other options on the flicker lights.
Mike (watch1)
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plowboy
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Posted: Thu Jun 28th, 2007 12:57 am |
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| Hello Mike just wanted to make a comment about the flicker lights . Alot of times when treeing a coon in summer or early fall when the leaves are still on trees a coon will not look at a bright light sometimes for some reason. When this happens I will dim my light to the lowest setting , put a colored lens on and turn the flicker on .About 95% of the time the coon will look my way I dont know if the coon is curious or it just dont know what to do. Also I had deer and coyote coming running by and turn the light on flicker. they would stop to look. My light will flicker every 3 seconds . We have one answering our call some and think it has come pretty close to us. I dont want to turn on the bright light I am afraid it will leave if I do. Just wondering if I try that set up if it would look at us and not leave. What do some of the members think? PLOWBOY
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watch1
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Posted: Thu Jun 28th, 2007 06:16 am |
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I have NO idea what the creatures reaction might be. From all that I can tell is they don't seem to like a light of any kind shined in their direction. I have not tried a light with a dimmer on it so that might make a big difference. The reaction to the dimmer light and the flicker sounds what we use to get with the old carbide lights. They were dim and at times they would flicker. Just moving them to fast would cause them to flicker. The bad thing about those carbide lights was the noise you would have to put up with. The constant hissing of the gases burning.
Others may have tried a softer light and might know something about it. I do think we may be light power hungry and want to have a bright light to try and get a glimps of what is out there and in doing so..we may be doing more harm than good.
Here is an idea I have thought up and will be trying. Lightning bugs are natural and something Bigfoot has and does see alot of. They have a greenish glow to them..although there have been reports of some seeing redish lightning bugs.
I plan to try using a Cyalume Light Stick with something like an aluminum pie plate as a reflector. The reflector would be used more to keep the light from going out to the rear of the light stick. This way you could place it up high and out in front of you and not be in the light and not be blinded by the light. Anything that came in close should be seen (eyes glowing). I am thinking the green light sticks might not spook the creatures and it should help our night vision as well.
I will have to try these out on the local racoons and deer and see what type of eye shine I get with these light sticks..if any.
I have thought about hanging a few out in the woods just to see if anything might come in and mess with them.
Just something else for us to try. It might work and it might not. Its worth a try and it might just turn out to be a good idea. These creatures are curious and that is the one thing we have going for us.
Mike (watch1)
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