Using a BLF GT70 to repel wildlife

LED Flashlights – General Info
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In my Parkside neighborhood of San Francisco, raccoons and skunks roam freely, as well as the occasional coyote. They are a sufficiently common nuisance that all the dog owners stock up on some sort of skunk smell removing powder because the dogs won’t learn, go bark up the skunk and get sprayed.

The first time I took my newly arrived GT70 out for trials, a skunk crossed the road about 10 meters ahead of me. I tried to shoo it away with a full blast of the GT70, but for the longest time it wouldn’t budge. The same occurred tonight when a raccoon started making noises in my back yard. After a couple of minutes, it finally got the hint and lazily climbed the fence to go to a neighbor’s yard instead.

I can’t believe how tolerant those critters are of the blinding beam of a GT70 at close quarters. I certainly would be running away if someone shined that at me.

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could it be that skunks have very poor eye vision who knows?

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That stinks…

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A skunkologist, of course. :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah, actually, I’ve noticed that opossums are also usually completely oblivious to light at night. Raccoons, on the other hand, I think are just bold and smart, and they lose their fear of humans.

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I’ve also discovered this with raccoons. Not with a light that bright, but they don’t seem to care.

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Wouldn’t count on a bright light if a dog were coming after you either

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I have a set of Klipsch outdoor speakers installed outside and a 100 watt amp inside the house. We use it for entertaining and what not. If I crank it up real loud, connect my phone to it via bluetooth, and play some machine gun sounds. They scatter like crazy. Light doesn’t seem to bother them out here. Even deer and coyote’s will come in pretty close. They don’t mind the light either until they smell me.

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Hahaha!

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If you shine the gt a a cat they just sit & stare at it ,a bit like rabbits looking at car headlights,but make a bit of noise & they scarper ,they can’t see what is making the noise , ha ha :smiling_imp:

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Yeah, light does not seem to bother most animals.

@ fazalmajid…… Try ‘fast strobe mode’ & see if that makes any difference. I have no idea if it will or not, but it should be interesting to see.

Let us know how it turns out if you try it. :+1:

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I have some cats that like to roam around my backyard and neither the turbo of an SC26 or strobe of a DN35 bothers them. They just sit there and stare. However, toss a few ice cubes at them and they seem to scatter. I’ll have to get my laser out next time and see if I can run them ragged.

KuoH

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/\… :+1: …… YEAH, they’ll probably chase the lazer untill they give out. :smiley:

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I have a small dog, as you can see on my avatar, and when I would take him out to do his business at night there was this certain type of bird by one of the trees just watching him. Needless to say, I read online that if you beam them with light, they stay away. . . . I did, and he hasn’t been back since.

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> I can’t believe how tolerant those critters are of the blinding beam

lights and strobes do not deter animals
the light just makes it harder for them to see you
and harder for them to see their escape route

if you shine a light at an aggressive dog, it will use its nose to keep track of where you are, it does not matter if you are hidden behind a flashlight

to deter a dog, or skunk, or raccoon, you need to use something that irritates their nose or eyes
for example Pepper Spray, or a squirt gun loaded with ammonia water

plain water in a squirt gun, will startle a dog, but as soon as he realizes it does not hurt, he will resume the attack

Plain water on an aggressive Raccoon, is an invitation for him to wash his hands, before he eats you.

So, unfortunately, NO, a flashlight will not deter animals.

And, if you shine a light at a bird, it cant see where to fly to, it freezes until the light is gone, so they can see their escape route.

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The raccoons must be as big as grizzly bears where you are. :smiling_imp:

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Ever heard of the phrase “like a deer in the headlights”? :slight_smile:

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I don’t know, but it almost seems that animals take no time for their eyes to adjust back to dark unlike humans where it can take minutes. A deer is a good example. Standing in the road staring at your high beams, then jumps into the woods at full speed without hitting anything.

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I have a small pickup with a led array on top bar good for about 10,000+ lumens. It’s fantasticks on the back roads, literaly turns the forest into daylight, but does nothing to deter deer taking in a late snack….or scurry out of the way.

I swear, one day one of them is going to raise a leg and take a p*ss at the truck.

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I found that crabs don’t respond AT ALL to the wavelength of LED flashlights, might be similar here?

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In 2010, shortly after signing up for BLF, my neighbor's pit bull got into our yard and fatally wounded my mom's dog, Garth, a German Shepherd.

(Garth did not die from his injuries immediately.)

The pit bull was in our front yard, and my mom and Garth were in the back porch.

There was no barrier to keep the pit bull from further injuring Garth, or attacking my mom.

So I stood in the side yard with a flashlight, the Lumapower MRV SE.

I shined the light at the pit bull as it ran around in circles and Animal Control tried to capture the pit bull.

Every time the pit bull got close to me, it turned away because of the light.

If it weren't for the flashlight, that pit bull would have gone from the front yard, to the side yard, to the back yard, to the back porch, and caused more injuries.