Using a flashlight

[Spurtaker]

Green light as needed.


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[Paulmyr]

If you are planning on walking right up to the tree the gobbler is in while shining your flashlight up at him, you might as well beat a drum and whistle dixie as you are doing it.  The results will be the same....   

I've heard the Battle Hymn of the Republic works on southern birds. Puts them at ease because there ain't no way a Yank could kill a tough old southern gobbler!

[2eagles]

I hike in up to a mile on most of the public land I hunt. Darn right I use a light. There are multiple parking places to access those woods and I want someone to know I'm there. Then I "go dark " as possible the last few hundred yards.

[WV Flopper]

If you have hours to walk it may be different. My typical locations only require a half an hour walk, or less. There is usually plenty of light for me to get out of my truck, do my morning routine and get my eyes adjusted to the natural ambient light. Key

Maybe if you try being at your spot early, getting out the truck and just standing in the dark you'll find that your eyes will adjust to that light.

95% of the time when a turkey gobbles there is well enough light to see to navigate safely through the woods. Usually, they don't goblle in pitch black darkness, they are asleep.

I don't even have a light in my vest or pockets. Maybe I have good darkness eyesight? But, I suggest standing in the dark for awhile to allow your eyes to adjust. With the truck doors closed or course.

When your walking with your light on, you can't tell it's light enough to walk without. This sounds really stupid. But, I proved it to my BF on his son's youth hunt last year. Your eyes will adjust if you give them darkness. This was on an hour walk, well before daylight.

[bowbird87]

I carry a small keychain sized thrunite and a small green led hat light. I try to use both sparingly.

[FullChoke]

I use a small krypton flashlight to help me move through the woods quietly and negotiate water and mudholes. One thing that I do is to hold the flashlight by the aperture edge to reduce peripheral light and to point it on the ground just ahead of my feet. I will switch over to the red lights when I think I might be getting close and turn it off when I am within 200 yards of where I want to start the day.

[mspaci]

Just a sm green light if i really need it. Most times i do not

[RutnNStrutn]

I've got a green Stylus pen light, and a red single small bulb headlamp. I rarely use either one of them.

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[Muzzy61]

I prefer not to use a light, but most of my walk ins lately are in ankle deep water in cotton mouth country. So I use a light until I get close to where I want to set up.

[Old Gobbler]

.. the ones I hunt are so cagey that would be the end of the hunt before it even started if I was walking down the trail with a light ..in fact I don't even like using the headlights as I'm getting anywhere near my spots

With that said ... I grab those cheap or free with a coupon small led harbour Freight flashlights ..I take a red magic marker and color it red ...I'll use it in dire need ..like stooped down looking for a dropped item like pruning shears ..call and will shield the lens with my hand cupped over the lens

[Brillo]

I don't see (pun) how a person can walk in dark woods without any light.  Maybe on a trail but that still seems risky. Safety first for me as I am almost always in a new spot on public.  Not bright light but some light. 

[ChesterCopperpot]

In the North Carolina mountains where I live and primarily hunt, I wear a headlamp for bears and steep terrain. In South Carolina, I wear a headlamp for hogs and burned out stump holes. I keep my head down, very dim red light, and I turn the lamp off if I need or want to look up. I prefer hands free on my gun and light where I'm looking in the event of bears or hogs. Have had coyotes and hogs both do odd things in the dark. Every time I was quite glad I could see them. If the moon's out and I can get by without, no lamp. Soon as the blue glow starts that hour or so before sunrise, no lamp. In all the years I've chased these birds, I can only recall two times a headlamp might've cost me a bird and truthfully it would've likely happened either way as I just walked unknowingly under roosted birds and they flew.


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[GGman]

  How about going in when it's "slightly" light out . Anybody here do this with success?

[Meleagris gallopavo]

I use the LED lights that clip on your hat bill.  I hate setting up and trying to get through thick brush when I can't see what I'm doing.  I don't think using a light has kept me from killing turkeys.


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[aclawrence]

I'll do a quick shine at the base of the tree.  The last thing I want to do is sit on a copperhead.

I do this a lot of times to. Maybe with just a red light but I like to know before I sit down. Mainly for hands if I'm setting stuff on the ground.


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