I like a light for each purpose but since you narrow me down to 2 I pick neutral and red. If i had a choice I would pick neutral and green.
And yes I picked both for hunting. Again I carry 2. A floody neutral and a spot green. I do have a spot red but it seems everybody and their mom has one for hogs around here and while the pigs are not supposed to be able to see it they do. The rednecks are swapping to green now so it’s just a matter of time they have the hogs trained to run from every color.
I was going with the hypothesis that everyone who voted for red was voting for it to be a hunting light. Since the design of the light itself will make it not good for hunting, I supposed that those people might choose another LED combo that they’d like that would be useful with this light design.
Oh, is that all it takes? A little bribery? :smiling_imp:
Are any of you guys who voted for NW + Red able to be bribed? I don’t have much money, but I could send you a cheap flashlight that I have lying around.
Put it this way I prefer red for times when I need night dilated vision preserved, be it hunting or otherwise. Although the red light itself is not used for spotting/targeting game… the actual act of hunting / killing.
One thing I find about extended exposure to red light is it tint shifts my vision-color spectrum. Just a few minutes of red light is all it takes. It makes me temporarily extra sensitive to white and green light, until my vision re-adjusts back. Its like getting a little OTF lumen boost.
Secondaries could be (preference order as follows):
a) something very low CCT (~ultra warm) White (max. 2000K, but 1300K would be even better)
b) Amber (not the monochrome, Cree XP-E2 has PC-Amber (PC = phosphor converted), which means a bit more diverse spectrum, but it has better efficiency, if I remember it right)
c) UV
d) Red (Cree XP-E2 has ‘Far red’ beyond 700nm, too)
It needs to be lacking any pronounced hotspot, should flood well.