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Hunting & Fishing Brightest, Cost Effective Weapon Mounted Light for Night Hunting

shax2lex

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I’m looking to find the brightest, most cost effective weapon mounted light for night hunting. I’m looking to do some night hog and coyote hunting. I’m not too concerned with colors right now. Any suggestions would be good. Thanks in advance.
 
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We leave tomorrow for our hog hunt. We all got these recommended by the local hunting club

Heres 50 yards

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I also have a fenix but it only lasts about 2 hours on high power with disposable batteries

Heres 50 yards
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And 100 yards to the tree line
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The fenix floods light but the wicked really focuses and is adjustable
 
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We leave tomorrow for our hog hunt. We all got these recommended by the local hunting club

Heres 50 yards

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I also have a fenix but it only lasts about 2 hours on high power with disposable batteries

Heres 50 yards
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And 100 yards to the tree line
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The fenix floods light but the wicked really focuses and is adjustable

Thanks for the pics. I’ve been leaning heavily towards the wicked combo package of the head lamp for scanning and the 403 gun light. Very helpful!
 
Thanks for the pics. I’ve been leaning heavily towards the wicked combo package of the head lamp for scanning and the 403 gun light. Very helpful!
I also like to mount the light to the blind, if your in a blind, instead of a on the weapon. I prefer this method so you dont need to prop you gun up for hours to see. Then I use binoculars to scan and grab my rife as needed. Heres the clamp I use.
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I will get comparison pics around 100 yards during my hunt for you.

Heres the wicked at 50 yards in green also
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I also like to mount the light to the blind, if your in a blind, instead of a on the weapon. I prefer this method so you dont need to prop you gun up for hours to see. Then I use binoculars to scan and grab my rife as needed. Heres the clamp I use.
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I will get comparison pics around 100 yards during my hunt for you.

Heres the wicked at 50 yards in green also
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So you don’t have a scan light, just the “gun light” mounted to the blind?

I will need a scan light as I will just be using a tripod and setup at the edge of fields. No dedicated blind. I Thought about just using the tripod mounted gun and gun light to scan but that seems dangerous and ineffective
 
So you don’t have a scan light, just the “gun light” mounted to the blind?

I will need a scan light as I will just be using a tripod and setup at the edge of fields. No dedicated blind. I Thought about just using the tripod mounted gun and gun light to scan but that seems dangerous and ineffective

Where we go there are narrow shooting lanes and the only place you could scan would be too difficult to shoot because of the blind configuration or too close to find in the scope. With what you are describing, mounting it to the weapon would probably work much better.
 
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Hot some pics from my blind tonight. Feeder is at 65 yards. The fenix works great to flood out to around 100 yards but chews up cr123 batteries. The wicked is not as bright when zoomed out but can focus more light at longer distances

Fenix red light
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Wicked red
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Wicked green
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Hot some pics from my blind tonight. Feeder is at 65 yards. The fenix works great to flood out to around 100 yards but chews up cr123 batteries. The wicked is not as bright when zoomed out but can focus more light at longer distances

Fenix red light
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Wicked red
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Wicked green
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Thanks for the additional comparison pictures.

I’m thinking of buying once crying once and getting the Coyote Light CL1. Use it mounted to my tripod/gun setup as the scan and kill light in open fields.
 
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