One man lamp setup

marcp

Well lads, just wondering what setup do ye use for nite time shooting on your own, scope mounted, hand held or both. Do use scan with a hand held and then switch to scope mounted or just use scope mounted (seems very awkward, having to swing gun around the whole time). Also what do people use for crossing ditches, barbed wire, etc, headlight maybe?????

cheers marc

johngalway

My setup:

Scope mountable Lightforce 170 Striker with 100W bulb.

I use this as hand held until I need to attach it to the scope mount. I've rewired it myself direct to the battery. Don't always get time to attach to the scope but that's not usually stopped me shooting the fox.

28amp battery in backpack.

100W bulb turned up sucks some juice, so I like a bigger capacity battery, yes, it is heavy. I tie the shoulder straps across my chest with some good rope, helps the shoulders. Also handy that the small compartments can carry camera, spare/emergency torch and any other junk that is brought along.

I keep my lamp on pretty much all the time, it's got a dimmer switch so I don't always have it at full power, probably 30-40% most of the time, ramp it up then for the shot. So that's also what I use negotiating obstacles, of which there are many where I shoot.

Don't bother two lamps, been there, done that, pain in the arse, noisy, wires everywhere.

I wouldn't scan with a lamp that's mounted on the gun for two reasons, it's a bad habit, if the gun is heavy you'll get real tired of doing it real quick.

Constab2

Find the ND5 mounted on scope a more than satisfactory set up,scan field first hand held ,spot the eyes,tighten with the clamp away you go.

marcp

Constab2 wrote: »

Find the ND5 mounted on scope a more than satisfactory set up,scan field first hand held ,spot the eyes,tighten with the clamp away you go.

what sort of distances would you be reaching with the ND5?

im trying to stay with flashlights rather than big lamps, dont like the idea of hauling a battery around on me back in a bag, done that many a night with out with the dogs and it would break ya after a few hours

clivej

We were using a couple of these one on the rifle the other for sweeping the fields with

Review here
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=66515357

Constab2

The distance depends on the width of the beam you use ,best way I find is too have beam on quarter radius for scanning, depends on how close or far your target is after that.Find it very good ,word of caution landowners get pretty freaked out with Green Laser light late at night on land so if using laser genetics make sure & inform them before using.On narrow beam looks something like Star-wars,& goes a long way,excellent on quarry does'nt spook them at all.