Lightforce 240 Blitz Filter colour

[Axe]

Oh well if you can only see to 100 yards with a filter and are happy with the reduced range fine with me... i have called fox from 500y with my clear lens that would be 250y past a red NF filter. Fox are not spooked by a clear light as they see the moon every night and it has no filter or colour at all. Filters are for close range rabbits and not for foxes out past 250y.

Your comments are not helpful or constructive - 1) a responsible shooter at night wouldn't take shots out past a genuine 250 yards, and 2) I can't remember the last time I was dazzled or blinded by the moon.
I also can't remember seeing or imagine a fox staring at the moon.

 

[RED-DOT]

Oh well... i am only stating learned facts.

 

[finnbear270]

Much care is needed shooting with a green filter vast amounts of detail is lost using this one.

 

[RED-DOT]

Lets get one thing clear... a filter reduces range and reduces clarity and FOXES (not rabbits) will run to a clear light if the correct procedure is followed. I have tried filters and they lead to blank outings... PROVE to me filters catch more foxes and i for one will resume thier use.

 

[Triggermortis]

I'm getting bored of this lecturei only asked about which colour people prefered, not for advice as to if i should be using one or not, as for filters leading to blank outings, tell that to the 12 foxes i have shot with the red filter over the last week or so, inc one outing of 5 foxes and one of 4, one of the foxes came to lamp from 500yds plus,none came in from less that 250, how does that work then?
Red-Dot, if fiters don't work for you, don't use them fella, no ones insisting on it! to put it simply, they work for me, i just thought as i need to replace my scratched one i'd ask about other colours on a forum that contains people that were more than likely to have used one, that is what the equiptment and accessories section and this forum is for isn't it?



Tikkat3

 

[RED-DOT]

OK... you seem to be asking a Q that you know the answer to... is debate not what forums are for too?

 

[Uncle Buck]

I've lamped many Foxes & rabbit over the years (white light), I find if they've been lamped before ( on on a regular basis)

or by an inexperienced lamper they tend to be lamp shy. I would then recommend the use of a red or amber filter.

Experienced spotlighters can recognize different animals by the spacing and size of their eyes and the color of their eyeshine.

An example, eyeshine is reddish in foxes and bluish in sheep; like sheep, horses and cattle have bluish eyeshine but their eyes

are wider spaced and larger.

As for the experience it comes to us all with time and practice & above all patience!!!

Rgds, Buck.

 

[RED-DOT]

Never seen a fox with red eyes and sheep eye pigments change when pregnant. I have seen pregnant ewes with PERFECT fox coloured eyes (yellow/orange).

 

[Gran]

I bought an amber filter when I got a farm that was a lot larger than my previous ones & needed the extra range,smaller farms I used a red one.
I then bought a dimmer & now just use that without a filter, you would be surprised at how low you can run it & still pick out eyes.
I also have a Clulite which doesnt have a filter but it's so bright you usually pick up the eyes way before the beam actually drops onto the fox & if you keep Charlie in the edge of the beam he doesn't spook. We bagged 3 a few weeks ago that all came in together in 45mins with the Clulite.

We find that if the foxes are near a busy road it will also effect how they react to lights, at night they are seeing red & white all night long.

Gran.

 

[finnbear270]

& above all patience!!!

Rgds, Buck.

This is in my humble opinion the no1, followed by this,

if you keep Charlie in the edge of the beam he doesn't spook. We bagged 3 a few weeks ago that all came in together in 45mins with the Clulite.

We find that if the foxes are near a busy road it will also effect how they react to lights, at night they are seeing red & white all night long.

Gran.