Red Filters

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fox lighting

hi everybody,
i am new to the site & the forum, i have been lamping for a round 15 years in westwales
and its the best persuit ever, better than teley anyway,
i have used many colours of fillters, and still the best is the dimmer switch, its a bit figgly
but when you get used to it,i works quite good. the red fillter is ok if your eyes are good,mine was ok at first,but now it is to low for me to see.
i use white and orange fillters now with the dimmer on low,it works good for me,
GOOD NIGHTS TO ALL

 

[BIGRED]

hi everybody,
i am new to the site & the forum, i have been lamping for a round 15 years in westwales
and its the best persuit ever, better than teley anyway,
i have used many colours of fillters, and still the best is the dimmer switch, its a bit figgly
but when you get used to it,i works quite good. the red fillter is ok if your eyes are good,mine was ok at first,but now it is to low for me to see.
i use white and orange fillters now with the dimmer on low,it works good for me,
GOOD NIGHTS TO ALL

I always used a red filter but can sometimes be hard to see at a distance have used green and amber but a dimmer on lamp seems to beat them all light force have a good set up in which the switch can be fixed to side off your rifle for easy control . i very rearly use any filters now

 

[jayy2]

Take extra care with the green,some real difficulties with the background colours swallowing details.

i have used green but find it harder to spot with it,amber not much diff from no filter,blue but the same results as green,so stick to red now seem to reflect eyes back better and rabbits and fox seem not that bothered with it....

 

[Alycidon]

Red is for rabbits, no positive ID over about 120 yards. I use Green on a Blitz 240 and Amber on a 170 clipped to a rifle. Shots over 250 yards no problems at all.
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[jay 22]

yes i would use red on rabbits as it dont spook them as much. and amber on fox because red cuts the beam down to much

 

[merlin]

We use amber - tried red, and it just saps too much out of the beam. With amber, the foxes - and bunnies - either stay still or FO straight away. Perhaps the foxes think they're just car headlights,as there are quite a few roads around where we shoot?

 

[sir-lamp-alot]

i love all this talk about foxes cant see this or that colour light and to be honest i dont buy into any of it, the common asumpsion is that foxes cant see the colour red. fine ok they cant see red but they can still see the actual light and the fact that the patch of ground that they are stood on is lit up regardless of it colour. i'm not saying that fillters dont work because i know they do they just dont work in the way people think they do a fillter works by dulling down the light keeping the target slightly less lit up give it more confidence to stay still and just incase your wondering i use amber, takes a bit of the glare off of the beam without lossing to much light to see what your looking at, also mimicks street lights when lamping close to the road but the biggest down side is everything looks ginger so go very carfull if you have cats about

 

[204 Ruger]

i love all this talk about foxes cant see this or that colour light and to be honest i dont buy into any of it, the common asumpsion is that foxes cant see the colour red. fine ok they cant see red but they can still see the actual light and the fact that the patch of ground that they are stood on is lit up regardless of it colour. i'm not saying that fillters dont work because i know they do they just dont work in the way people think they do a fillter works by dulling down the light keeping the target slightly less lit up give it more confidence to stay still and just incase your wondering i use amber, takes a bit of the glare off of the beam without lossing to much light to see what your looking at, also mimicks street lights when lamping close to the road but the biggest down side is everything looks ginger so go very carfull if you have cats about

Agree. I am now using a dimmer with my Amber filter and find this just as good as using the red filter at the same light levels.