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Post by lb on Oct 4, 2007 19:25:28 GMT -6
"Night vision... best way to go on after hours shooting."
I completely understand what this gentleman is doing, but it has almost nothing to do with night time predator hunting, as I know it.
Good hunting. LB
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Post by bubcat on Oct 4, 2007 21:07:10 GMT -6
Nothing to do with night hunting as "you" know it.... Sounds sorta like the great flyfish/bait cast debate rearing it's head... I've filled my creel most all ways... clear lens, red lens, moonlight, and for a few years now, (with a couple thousand hours of) "night hunting" with night vision. If it's some sort of mistake not to be night hunting as you know it, I guess I'll have to live with the guilt. But a dead coyote killed after dark, has "everything" to do with night hunting, wether you know how it happened or not. The way I see it, a jacklight is as good a means of killing a coyote as it is alerting 5 others to your precise location, and a night vision scope will never tell the entire country side, "HEY! I'M OVER HERE!" quite like a flashlight will. Folks go to great ends to hunt undetected... cover scents, mists, camo, concealment... and then snap on aircraft landing lights... I don't get that part, but,To each his own... I don't see lights as contributing to maintaining an undetected location.... not at all. but to say they got nothing to do with night hunting... I'll just say they don't have "much" to do with it... LOL or at least aren't up to the potential of it.
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Post by lb on Oct 4, 2007 23:24:06 GMT -6
Let me be clear then, since you want to belabor the point. You are a funny man. Sitting in a stand over bait is not even close to conventional night hunting. You are just sniping. If that's all you know, your opinions don't have much value for me.
Good hunting. LB
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Post by bubcat on Oct 5, 2007 7:15:08 GMT -6
A "conventional night hunt" would probably involve a flintlock and a kerosene lantern...
On the other end of the spectrum you've got an AR-15 with a 20 inch Douglas competition barrel in .223 topped with an ANPVS-4 in gen 3 with an Israeli mil dot reticule,
Somewhere between the two is a nightblaster duct taped to a shotgun.
It's all "night hunting"....and a matter of choice, and priority. Not many want to invest 4 or 5 grand or more in a scope and rifle to effectively kill coyote, but I'm funny that way. Don't take it personal. Lights will work, if that's all you have to use. I did for years.
But, I suspect it don't matter, and some got it in their head there's only "one" caliber qualified to night hunt with as well, or "one" particular brand of light that's so remarkably much "better", when the blinders of a purist "my way or no way" attitude are covering their eyes.
And, I suspect the only reason anybody would prefer a flashlight to hunt with, is they've not spent any great amount of time lugging the set up I described above to "know" the difference between the two, but some folks prefer muzzle loaders for whitetail, and that's ok too. Like I said, to each his own, and who are we to judge? I prefer night vision to a light. Don't anyone let it spoil their weekend, it's not that important or difinitve.
I'm headed out scouting moose for the long weekend. Although I have it, I don't use night vision much for it, I figure it's "unconventional"... LOL I guess we've all got our quirks about huntin.
You folks all have a great weekend.
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Post by edge on Oct 5, 2007 8:52:47 GMT -6
**Somewhere between the two is a nightblaster duct taped to a shotgun.**
Oh.
So you've *seen* my rig.
Edge
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Post by Critt'R Gitt'Rz on Feb 1, 2008 21:24:59 GMT -6
I use a lit reticle scope and a lightforce Tufflight. I also own an optronics scope mounted light, but it's not legal in PA. I also use a NiteLite Wizard on a soft hat. The lightforce is by far the best of the lights I own. A little pricey, but so far, worth every penny.
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