Thread: Spotlight 'light' too white

Have you considered an NV scope and light Moa ? Make eyes stand out like spotlights with reflected light. Not always the easiest to see the whole animal though, but I guess that depends on what you are shooting and where.
That's where thermal comes in - poor buggers don't stand a chance through thermal . You can see animals where any kind of light won't pick them up due to foliage reflection, distance etc.

I have a Olight Javelot and a Maxtoch Sniper. The Olight is “de-domed” from the factory and throws a much more user friendly light than the maxtoch which throws a very white “icy” hue that makes things difficult to make out in detail at distance. I have a small maxtoch single 18650 torch also that I’ve had for years, I had it de-domed and it most definitely changed the hue of the light to that more user friendly hue that was less white than before I had it done

Do many of you use the red light ones at all? id had decent success with small game with them

In all honesty I cant justify the expense of a thermal scope for shooting hares, rabbits, Roos and the occasional pig or deer thats where it shouldn't be. With the very white light, a rabbit can be flat on the ground and near invisible in dead grass.
The other issue, and no less a headache is when there is moisture in the air and the spotlight sends a giant white jedi light sabre beam into the distance. All that reflected light makes it bloody hard to look through a scope that magnifies it several times

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

a giant white jedi light sabre beam into the distance. All that reflected light makes it bloody hard to look through a scope that magnifies it several times

This is one of the reasons I've been seriously considering something like the PARD or an ATN scope - mainly for the little stuff when I'm solo at home

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

I have a Olight Javelot and a Maxtoch Sniper. The Olight is “de-domed” from the factory and throws a much more user friendly light than the maxtoch which throws a very white “icy” hue that makes things difficult to make out in detail at distance. I have a small maxtoch single 18650 torch also that I’ve had for years, I had it de-domed and it most definitely changed the hue of the light to that more user friendly hue that was less white than before I had it done

@Ryan_Songhurst, what lights does your father use ?. One bloke I know uses a 30watt light for shooting hares commercially and just has them in the edge of the beam

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

@Ryan_Songhurst, what lights does your father use ?. One bloke I know uses a 30watt light for shooting hares commercially and just has them in the edge of the beam

He’s moving more and more to thermal only. Has just completed contract doing all of the Macaulay and I think he’s doing the Godley at the moment and contract states no light sources are to be used. On some of the stuff where he does still use lights he actually uses the old school lightforce gear mounted to his helmet and has the Olight Javelots setup to rifle mount

Decided to get a Maxtoch with green filter. Soft light that doesnt wreck my own night vision and yet is still good to shoot to 350 (not that I will ever shoot that far in the dark) and hares and Rabbits will carry on grazing in the beam, which is not something that I have had with other lights.
Thanks for input