Hunting & Fishing Hogs & Red light

[Nostradumbass]

I Know there's a lot of different opinions......but I'd like to know if anybody here has had hogs recognize a red lense spotlight pointed at them. I use surefire weaponlights and was thinking of ordering red filters for them. May sound elementary but I've never used a red light in the field.

I do know deer can see a green laser and it scares the he'll out of them....
Anyways, thanks.

 

[tansinator]

Re: Hogs & Red light

I've got some buddies that have been using green lasers this year and swear that they don't bother deer as long as you don't focus them down really tight. Both guys have watched deer for about an hour after dark with the deer never noticing them or spooking. They are using the ND5 flashlights by laser genetics.

Eddie

 

[Nostradumbass]

Re: Hogs & Red light

Ok......the laser I used is a Laser Devices OTAL with a green aiming beam. It's a really tight beam and they snort and run when they see the path if the pointer. I really want to play around with a ND5 but they're just so expensive......

 

[50calibercruiser]

Re: Hogs & Red light

BSA is coming out with a more powerful version I think it's the ND3x50. I would get that one, the standard ND3 was way over hyped.
Also, from my numerous experiences with hogs and green lasers is does not scare them.

 

[KE5MUJ]

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We've used red lights several times on hogs,they don't seem to pay any attention to them.

 

[tansinator]

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I think the ND5 is a powerful as the ND3x50. The difference is one is a flashlight and one comes with all the mounting hardware. The ND5 can be found for $289 pretty easily on the net. The ND3x50 is about $599. Now my buddies are not into the so called tactical aspect of shooting, they just like to kill shit and stay in the woods as long as possible. They use the ND5 as their flashlight as well. They both said if they wanted to use it to shoot a game after legal hours that they could just hold the flashlight under the stock and would have no problem using it without it being mounted to their rifles.

 

[Opticsspecialist]

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i use that nd3 myself, that would be the unit to look at

 

[vman]

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Would love to try out one of these units in the near future.

Anything I should look out for when deciding on a particular model?

 

[ccoker]

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I use the TexasBoars lights
they work

I have heard from several people that the ND3 spooks them
one is a NightVision hog hunting guide. I trust his take..

they also don't work when it's cold

 

[HTR707]

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I've used everything from Texas Boars lights to the ND3's to Gen III NOD's.

Nothing ....nothing beats Gen III NOD's and/or thermal. Neither of them projects anything. Any device that projects light can and eventually will spook some of the older, warier hogs. Translated, that means, the biggest ones.

Here's another tip: whenever there is a huge "hatch" you have about 3 months time, where you could go out in the field in a Burger King suit, and blow a party hooter, and still shoot them. They are so dumb and competitive in their first year, and there are so many, that the adults just stop hanging out with the choates. Remember, these things don't care if the young get sent out to the feeder first, as the "Judas" at all.

With that species, it is "every man for himself..." So, when they get really smart and the populations are down, I have been totally skunked using $20K worth of up to date .mil hardware. I am not sure any animal is harder to hunt when the population is skewed toward older, heavily pressured hogs.

Just my $.02

 

[308crosshairs]

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I concur with what HTR707 said, "when the population is skewed toward older, heavily pressed hogs" the older boars can be very hard to hunt. A few weeks ago a had a very large boar come within 15 yards of the bait pile which I have lite with white LED lights. He stopped short, stood there for about 30 seconds and turned around walked off from where he came. I observed all this with a thermal device. I was down wind of him, so I know he didn't scent me. Just a smart old boar who may have been shot at before under a lite bait pile. That night I had no N/V scope with me, so that night he won.

 

[wegner426]

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Hog hunting sounds fun as hell.....I am going to try and make a trip down to OK to take some out with my cousin.

 

[HTR707]

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I think one of the reasons its so fun is that they are so smart, and hard to hunt. An old boar is a worthy adversary even for the hunters with NOD and thermal.

By far the best thing, though, is when you can stalk up to within 20 yards and see them look around like WTF? They know something is there, but if the wind is right, they aren't smelling you....but they can sense you....usually then, its too late.

Stealthily skulking up in pitch darkness, by yourself, on a 300 lb boar, is something every hunter should experience.