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Hunting with a red light

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Topic: Hunting with a red light

Posted By: -Ec
Subject: Hunting with a red light
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2026 at 9:52am

Has anyone tried hunting with a red light spotlight? Ive read that the red light don’t spook the quarry as much as a white light does and am thinking of trying a red light torch on my airgun to see if I have better success.

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Regards,
-Ec

Replies:

Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2026 at 11:49am

Yes a lot.
Rabbits hares are way less responce to a red light.
Color red in genral, catch is if your shooting the same area all the time they learn its a threat eventually.
Eye shine off a red light will show up way more than green or white.
Red light doesn't kill your night vision either.
If you want to try before you buy you can borrow my scope torch, and a couple of batteries, charger to if you need it.
Has red, green ,white light. Three brightness settings. If your scope is a 30mm tube i can provide a scope mount with it all for you to trial. If not you'll have to hand hold it as im not sure where the reducer rings are.
You will have to zero on again if scope mounted as it will throw the gun out due to it. However once its on its only a matter of dialing up the zerozero on scope via turrets for naked or torched.

Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2026 at 1:13pm

Ec the unexpected happened. Finally got the farmer to let me bring someone on farm to shoot. So if you want to try red light, try my guns, hunt rabbit ,hare, cats, pigeons,various other small game this saturday is open. Your welcome to head up.
Just let me know via this and can sort the rest out.

Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2026 at 4:43pm

So didn't realize it was labour weekend. Ec cant make it.
Anyone want to come out with air rifle for day and hunt.?
Approx 40 km up taihape rd from Hastings end.as a rough guide to distance.

Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2026 at 6:18pm

Sorry thats now gone. Got a mate keen to come over.

Posted By: vault
Date Posted: 09 May 2026 at 4:45am

Hunted rabbits, goats and deer with red lights, mostly Maxtoch torches, red does distort your spacial awareness through the trees.

used to carry a red pen light on a string pointing down to the ground to light my way as animals still spook if they see the source of the light eg bright torch moving through bush or towards them.

Use greenlight for pigs as they cant see green light unless again they see the bright source, some spook some dont.

Nightvision be the way to spot them/shoot em for discretion.

We used thermals to spot deer, nv to shoot them, red light pountung down to light our path

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