Dont bother m8, we are bankan folks, we get used to hummor ourselves every day
This flashlight problem actualy isnt modes but size/weightā¦.its not that i havent mounted UF1504 on my .300 yet its hard, and the mount itself costed like 60 euros.
I wonder when flashlight companies will start collaborating with real time huntersā¦
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A host form will be great! That HI emitter will look terrible in the zoomie , believe me- nobody here likes a HI emitter paired with zoomie
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Here you can use a flashlight 2 hours after sunset and 2 hours before sunrise
If one is hunting predators like i do, its allowed 24/7- the population of jackals here pooped like hell- like 350k or something.
Even worst- we do have a huge wolf population now, coming from Turkey and Syria, they are escaping the war over there they sayā¦.rolf, even wolves dont like ISIS
I killed a 44kg one 4 months ago, near our capitol city, can you imagine? In just 3 days that bugger killed 5 dogs and 2 horses
We could use Night cams or thermal cams but it`s forbidden to mount them on rifles. I use a thermal vision cam for observation or surching.
For shooting you could only mount a good riflescope ( I use a Zeiss 3-12x56).
You could own the forbidden stuff for using it in other countries.
Yes, the wild hogs are a problem in some european countriesā¦
Imagine you do a quick flash to see whatās in that bush up ahead. You hear a noise to your side, do a quick flash, only now youāre in moonlightā¦ or strobeā¦ orā¦
Inadvertent mode-change. Sucks when youāre certainly not expecting it.
Jesus!! I think I saw pix like that taken at Dachau or Buchenwaldā¦ :o
Ya gonna eat all that?
Odd. Pix like that, dead critters all stacked up like that, give me the creeps, but pix of, say, the ossuary at Sedlec, I think are pretty kewl.
Indeed.
However i use a different tactics: i usualy observer with a H@K monocle and then the bugger is in a shooting range :bang
Using several kind of taming too,: have 4 whisles , a robo-rabbit and a some other stuff of that ilk.
This reminds of of an old hunting joke called ā No sirā I will be prolly banned if i tell this here so lets keep the good tone.
I actualy skin some of them, especialy winter time : but most go to āequarissageā: since jackals here eats everything they usualy carry plague, worms and other nasty stuff.
I made several great carpets from them over the years but ppl usualy dont like photoes like that, we should make a dedicated BLF hunting topic for that.
I suggest something simple like the first one but with moonlight mode and a red LED. Supposedly animals have a hard time seeing red light so you are less likely to spook them in the pre-dawn hours on your way to your blind or stand. Civilians canāt hunt during the hours of darkness here in CA anyway so for me itās about getting into the field w/o scaring off the deer (red light) and then finding and dressing them if the shot doesnāt happen until just before sunset.
Now I am getting to understand some weird results in this pole:
1. There are one group of hunters that will never mount flashlight on a gun or use it for hunting at night. They just use them for walking or blood tracking.
2. There is second group of hunters that will mount it on weapon and use flashlight at night for night hunting.
- So for the first mentioned group of hunters even the candle will do and this heavy aspheric flashlight is not for their use anyway and you should make them smaller aspheric flashlight than that cause the larger aspheric light is the less flood mode it will have.
- For the second group of hunters that will really hunt with your light it would be good that you listen to them and consider that high mode we talking to you.
Final conclusion: I guess that there is only small group of hunters(at least here on BLF) that actually use flashlight for hunting and that is okā¦ Just made flashlights for them while myself Mitko and few other guys will use your host on our way.
Iām firmly in uminarium iaculatorās second group - I want at least 70kcd and 750 lumens, under 350 grams total incl batteries and have a 1.5 hr runtime on high. I scope mount and use for rabbit shooting the plague proportions we have here. My maxtoch 2x is grunty but almost too heavy for my use - where my convoy c8 dedomed XML u4 does an excellent job out to 150m
This light is a bit heavy to mount it onto a rifleā¦ The lens is 64mm diameter, very large, with battery the weight is over 750 gram , 2000 Lumens over 1000 meter range, 4 hrs on 2000 lumens , 6 hrs on 1000 lumens . This light should be carried by a belt. Only single cell flashlight can meet your demand , i think
The maxtoch 2x is very very popular in new zealand for hunting as it has the 1000m+ range but can be scope mounted as well - 2k lumens sounds nice but the weight is the biggest issue
IF this is meant to be a weapon mounted light , I would say 1 mode. High.
On top of that, maybe offer a second mode group to put it on, something like five quick presses. offer High, med, lo, strobe, SOS. If you get lost in the woods at night, would be nice to have lower modes to extend run time, and strobe/SOS to catch attention from possible cars/planes/people.
Weapon mounted lights only need one mode, high. You should not be pointing a gun at something you do not intend to shoot
On mine I was never getting claimed 350kcd. I donāt know if I am the only one? It was 230kcd light so I just resell it.
Modded Supwildfire reflector goes over 300 kcd and it is even lighter than that.
And yes there are no light like modded aspheric light.
This light may be bit heavy for mounting as well as 1504 but if you need 400-500 kcd light(when modded of course) than youāll manage to mount it somehow and shoot of the bench.
