Red lens on flashlight
Ok, I know some people like to have their flahslights red for hunting. It gives the benefit of making the light hard to see by the animal, and if you are in an area with houses people won’t see you down the block.
After doing a quick fix job on my taillight, I found a great source for a red cover. Just go to any auto store and get the tail light repair tape. It’s a deep red tape. 🙂
So just stick it over your flashlight and ta-da, it’s red!
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Wow walt, heck of a post there. Did not expect such a reply. 🙂
And like YN said, I didn’t mean invisible from a block away just not as clear. When I shine the surefire up into a tree with just the plain light it looks like a searchlight in the woods, and everyone can see it from the house, but a red filter just makes it a little dimmer and that ambient red from the shine, not the light being pointed right at someone, is hard to see.
I’ll have to go try that crowpopper. 🙂
You sure the red is not noticeable from down the block? I have never tied two colored lights to DH and asked him to walk very far away yet, he’d probably just tell me to fuck off; he has such a sunny disposition 🙂 But, from my days being out on the water at night, navigating by watching the buoys is a requisite skill. I’ve had to help more than 1 guy who had run his boat aground on the reef at night because he couldn’t figure out where the damn channel was. You have to watch the buoy markers, which are lit; green and red. When you are a half mile away running along in pitch blackness, you get to appreciate colors very very much. At night you tend to lose your color vision anyway, the easiest way to find the buoys is by using your peripheral vision, where the cones outnumber the rods in your retina and thus allow more sensitivity to colored light. See any anatomy chart. But, one thing that is very noticeable is that I would almost always find red buoys before green ones… they are far easier to see, at the same distance. I know that all the literature says the human eye is more sensitive to green light than red… but this is just something I know is correct from what I’ve personally experienced. Other fishermen have noticed the same thing as well; when we are offshore and calling directions to each other, the first soundout marking a buoy sighting is always on a red.
So, this red light disappearing from a block away, is it something you’ve seen? Or read about? I’ve mused over the same thing, about using really really dead batteries in a tiny LED light to go hunting with, and wondering if I should be using blue or red filters on it to keep it from showing up to an observer say, half a mile or so away. I tried walking around with night vision, but it’s nearly impossible in the field. You end up stumbling a lot on rocks and falling into holes. It can be done, but your movements are very slow and it gets old really quick. So I just resort to using a dim light to walk to and from a hunting area, then switching over to night vision for the still hunt or stalk.
walt
What he means is that its less noticable.
I’ve done the testing to be sure…. but still wasn’t pleased with “less”.. as less than a 180 lumen light is still pretty bright hence the NV.
lama that wrks ok but unles it is clear red it isnt the best
the best i have found is go to dollar stor and get the gift basket wrap in red 3 layers over lens rubberbanded on works awsome
then add like 10 more to it and the human eye cant see it but when i looke through the NV i can see awsome as the IR light goes through the red no probs
lama, what you smoking?
You sure the red is not noticeable from down the block? I have never tied two colored lights to DH and asked him to walk very far away yet, he’d probably just tell me to fuck off; he has such a sunny disposition 🙂 But, from my days being out on the water at night, navigating by watching the buoys is a requisite skill. I’ve had to help more than 1 guy who had run his boat aground on the reef at night because he couldn’t figure out where the damn channel was. You have to watch the buoy markers, which are lit; green and red. When you are a half mile away running along in pitch blackness, you get to appreciate colors very very much. At night you tend to lose your color vision anyway, the easiest way to find the buoys is by using your peripheral vision, where the cones outnumber the rods in your retina and thus allow more sensitivity to colored light. See any anatomy chart. But, one thing that is very noticeable is that I would almost always find red buoys before green ones… they are far easier to see, at the same distance. I know that all the literature says the human eye is more sensitive to green light than red… but this is just something I know is correct from what I’ve personally experienced. Other fishermen have noticed the same thing as well; when we are offshore and calling directions to each other, the first soundout marking a buoy sighting is always on a red.
So, this red light disappearing from a block away, is it something you’ve seen? Or read about? I’ve mused over the same thing, about using really really dead batteries in a tiny LED light to go hunting with, and wondering if I should be using blue or red filters on it to keep it from showing up to an observer say, half a mile or so away. I tried walking around with night vision, but it’s nearly impossible in the field. You end up stumbling a lot on rocks and falling into holes. It can be done, but your movements are very slow and it gets old really quick. So I just resort to using a dim light to walk to and from a hunting area, then switching over to night vision for the still hunt or stalk.
walt
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I used the lightest brake-light tape I could find over an LED light. Cut the output WAY down, but still lights-up eyes 150 or so yards out. Conventional red filters really kill an LED’s output.
I found some of that gift-basket type film that Crowpopper is probably talking about this last X-Mas, and it works great with my LED flashlight (meaning it doesn’t cut the power down much). I can still light-up an animal at about 150 yards. Not sure how well they can see it, though. Might add another couple of layers.