Thread: Hunting torches red light vs white light

I am lucky enough to have a private block where we hunt fallow. I have spent a bit of time playing with red light hunting torches vs white lights. Up until now my conclusion has been that the red light seemed to disturb the animals less than the white light. However I have just come back from a couple days hunting on that block and my experience during that time has given me reason to rethink my conclusions. This time around I found that the animals were reacting to the red light, they did not like it and were moving as soon as the light was on them. the one downside with a red light is that it does take a little longer to get target acquisition particularly at ranges over say 150m, even more so if there is no eye shine because the deer is looking elsewhere. So after experiencing that issue on the first night I made a change to a white light, what I found was the deer did not seem to react any more than with the red light and the added bonus is that target acquisition is faster because of the better illumination. So even if the deer react equally to red vs white lights you are way better off with the white light because you can get get the shot away faster due to better target acquisition. So right when I thought I had the whole thing sussed I get this curve ball which throws my theories out the window.
It has been a while since this subject got some air time so I am interested in input from other hunters experiences.