I have 5 of elusive wildlife like the one below and 2 ASF that are very similar. The Wicked light is twice as bright and with the double solar chargers the battery last longer it never goes out. Always still going at daylight. Wicked still makes gun mounted lights but not the feeder light.
duffas i know what you mean on the China stuff. That Wicked light wasn’t cheap. $300 back 7 years ago. Probably a hard sell these days with the cheap Chinese stuff.
Son-in-Law got 2 Chinese for 50$ each, still working after 2 yrs. My Chinese strip lite in the kitchen (HD special) stopped working this morning, 30$ and me getting on ladder will solve problem.
I have the Sniper Hog lights version, a little pricy, but works well. I am not sure about the others, but it comes with a remote to adjust brightness, mine works from 200 yds.+, probably closer to 250. They have IR bulbs you can swap out to use with NV. I have them but have never tried them.
We've taken a bit of a different approach at our ranch. I get these solar powered street type light on sale for around $35.00 or so. I believe they're 6000 lumens each. On stands that are over 150 yards we have two. At Hobby Lobby they sell green transparent film. I unscrew the outer lens, pull the foil reflector shield and slide in the green film cut to size to cover the LED's. These lights are design to stay on at 30% until the detect movement, then they go 100%. Some of these have been up for almost five years. I have a few that have gone belly up that I'll be replacing in a couple of weeks.
To be honest figuring out a decent mounting system took a bit of trial and error but I've figured it out.
I was just checking around for new lights, found these on Amazon for $27.00. I'll probably give a couple of these a try. I'll have to add the green transparent film of course, cheap and easy plus the mounting pole built in.
Do a search on Amazon for solar powered street lights. There's a bunch there in a wide array of prices. Just make sure the ones you get have screws to take off the outer lenses so you can put the green or red film in. I tend to buy the cheaper ones, easy on the wallet to replace.
I've had both green and red filtered feeder lights. It really makes no difference. When you put the lights out for the first time it may take the animals a couple of days to get used to them. After that they could careless what color is shining down as long as they corn on the ground. The only real difference is, some will say they see better with one color over another. As I said we've tried both rod & green lights. We finally settled on just green. Everyone said they see animal better under the green.
A couple pieces of advice if you're going to put night lights on your feeders to hunt hogs at night. Have a scope with an illuminated reticle. We shoot Leupold second plane firedot reticle scopes for hunting. It can be hard to pick up your crosshairs sometimes without the illuminated reticle. I realize range type finding first focal plane reticles are all the rage these days. They won't help you much at night hunting hogs. I always carry my rifle just in case. I've probably had six or seven hunters show up with a first focal plane reticle. We have them dial it down for night hunting to get the most light transmission possible. Those first focal plane reticle become near useless in the middle of the night. Once dialed down, the reticle is too small to use. Some will dial in more magnification so they can see the reticles. I usually just hand them my rifle and it solve the issue.
Best of luck on what ever direction you go for hunting hogs at night.
This is why I prefer red and green combined. Depth perception is better at night this way. Overall site is better. That’s just me, others of course can do as they please. I’m just putting out food for thought.
This is why I prefer red and green combined. Depth perception is better at night this way. Overall site is better. That’s just me, others of course can do as they please. I’m just putting out food for thought.
When you say you prefer red and green combined. How are you deploying these. Two lights, one red, one green?
This is why I prefer red and green combined. Depth perception is better at night this way. Overall site is better. That’s just me, others of course can do as they please. I’m just putting out food for thought.
When you say you prefer red and green combined. How are you deploying these. Two lights, one red, one green?
I'll upload a few pictures when I get back to Ft Worth. I'm down in the woods now hunting hogs and can't get a picture to load due to poor service. I don't think I can explain it good enough.
Hey Alpine Hunter, This is the first one I bought. It lights up about 30 yards wide and is good to about 80 yards away, for my eyes anyway. I rarely use it anymore. You can see 2 red and 1 green built in.
This is the 2nd I got. It is my favorite. It lights up 50 yards wide out to about 120-150 yards. I put it on a 10 foot pole facing the feeder.
This is the third. This one lights up a few acres. All red on the right side and 2 red/1 green on the left. I wish it had a little more green mixed in.
This image is not mine. The LED disc gives you an idea of how the colors are mixed.
Also not mine but made by the same guy as mine.
Mixing the colors makes what you see at night less washed out. Someone is likely going to come along and say I'm full of chit but the hogs can't see red in the spectrum. They can see the source of the light but can't see each other in the red light. Green works but is more "spooky" to them. You can use your film to get similar results with the lights you have. Likely 2 red and 1 green is best but that's your call. Please kill them all!
I thought that's what your were doing. Since my lights have two sets of LED's I'm going to try one light with red and one with green and see how it goes.
I took down my seven hog lights I have on my feeders. I had to replace two that weren't working. I took the lens covers off on each one and replaced the green filters with new red & green filters. I'll be curious tonight when it gets dark how they look and perform.
Not sure who makes the lights. Amazon has a great selection of solar street lights like these that are brighter and much cheaper.
Just got back from checking the new red/green filtered lights. The red filters are working great. The green filter film I used was a lot lighter green than the previous green film. It was almost a bright white lite. Way too bright under the feeders. When we got back to the house and did an experiment with a flash light. I'll need four layers of the green film to make it truly look green like the previous green film. It will be an easy fix tomorrow to the take the outer lenses off and add three additional layers of green film. I'll check them tomorrow night and post the results.
I received some dark green film yesterday. I replaced the lighter green film with the darker green in the lights. I did set one feeder up with just red lights and one with just green lights as well. The dark green/red combination still produced an almost white light. Not sure why, didn't like it though. The green filtered lights on the one feeder is what we've been running for almost ten years and has worked well. The all red lights were flat out outstanding. The area was brighter than the green and easier to see around feeder. I just changed out the remaining feeder lights with all red filters. I'm sure it will take a few days for the hogs and deer to get used to, then it's game on.