Capreolus257
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Hi can someone suggest me a light, mounted on the gun, for wild boar night hunting shooting?
Moonlight!.
Anything else and you will have no chance
I have never hunted wild boar with a light but a dear friend, who have killed hundreds of boar with the light says under white light you have two seconds, under red three or four.
I have studied something about and it depends mainly about them eyes sensitive and in the fact they associated easier the White light to a risk instead of a red light.
There is a problem with the laser designators. They do not like cold weather or rain. It's like looking into a blur. I bought one and never use it for this reason.
Great thing to know, thank you for your help
A simple T20 with interchangeable coloured LEDs , white, red, green or IR. Etc.
With a small scope mounted adjustable clamp from ant supplies .
Or
I have a home made scope mounted Night vision add on that I can move to any of my rifles and it works great .... You are looking at a small screen instead of looking thru the scope but shooting position is I just can't my head back slightlŷ to view .
Goes on & off the rifle in less than 30 seconds and no,change to normal zero
There are few options to you
Paul
I've had very good success using a red light, my torch is scope mounted and has a red filter. The filter dims the beam greatly, beyond 65-70yds I only get eye shine and the animal is not lit brightly enough to shoot.
I have shot at least 70 boar using this method in the past year, most of them under 50yds, they very rarely even look up from feeding or are aware of my presence, I put that down to the brightness of the beam being so low.
I have a thermal imager for spotting, using the TI I manoeuvre to a suitable shooting position, it is quite easy to get within 30-40yds. A boars best method of detecting you is scent, their sense of smell is phenomenal, you have to stay downwind.
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