In South Carolina, it is legal to hunt hogs at night with a light. Not that I plan on spending many nights in the swamp but they sure do like coming in and moving around at dark. I was planning on picking up a metal ILF riser with a stabilizer insert except I dearly love simple little longbows. Plus I seem to have my share of extra bow lying around the house. So I decided to do a little carpentry work...drilling in a stabilizer insert & dropping some weight off an older GN Critter Getter 56" now 50#@28. Then I added my Eagle's Flight 3 arrow quiver and a bow mount mini-sniper high intensity red light by Sniper Hog Lights. It has a finger switch you can mount to your handle. Very bright and good lighting easily to 20-25 yards. Should be fun...tippit
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Nice set-up Jeff. The big ones do seem to show up after dark. Good luck
Really cool set up. How "easy" is the on / off switch to manipulate?
Would love to see it in action!
Nice
If Benjy finds out about your new toy he will be wanting to test it out for you. :D
Bill
I better come along and help test that light, when and where!!! Good job on the light.
Nice set up Jeff ! Looking forward to hearing about it in action!
Very nice looking set up you have there Jeff!
Bill,
I PM'd Benjy. I hope he doesn't have the drill out with that new Zipper :scared:
John,
The on/off switch are two buttons that you just push in. Mounted on the front side of the riser with a little Velcro. One button is high intensity the other lower light. If you touch the button the light comes on . If you push it in the light stays on. Very easy and do it while getting ready to shoot. The red light doesn't seem to scare the game off.
I did the same with one of mine for The hogs and gators here in Florida. Good luck on your hunt.
Have you shot with it much?
I just set up a couple of those and we played with them last week. it took me awhile to get used to focusing on your spot instead of centering things up on the light circle.
i shot better at 20-25 yards than 10-15 yards right at first. kirk
Nice.need to rig me up 1 like that.I'm in the process of getting my kodiak magnum ready for hogs
Kisk,
The light is mostly a flood so it illuminates a good area instead of a spot. It doesn't seem to effect my shooting at 15 yards and I won't be set up much further away at night.
ooops... double post
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I can shoot my 3d course during the dark of the moon out to my normal hunting shot distance. 25yds and in. actually I could shoot out to about 40 yds with the mini sniper and do so with my unmentionable bow.
Very cool setups!
Shurely he would not do that!! Would he? :D
Bill
Don't know how I missed this :bigsmyl: Bill could you please add a stabilizer hole to my new bow? Just kidding!
I actually like to get them so close that I only need a match to light them up and besides after they finished eating the corn mixed with the disel fuel the match will work to light up the blood trail also!
See this thread if you are wondering what I'm talking about :D
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000336
Benjy
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Hey Jeff
Would that light work with a GN adapter ? That would be neat to try?
Where did you get your light at?
Ray,
I have a GN adaptor. The problem with it is it straps on the same angle as your lower limb which makes the light angle down. You could shim up the adaptor to bring the light beam up but that just makes the whole setup more bulky...but it would surely work.
I drilled in my adaptor parallel to my arrow shaft so the light is pointing at the intended target. I have a few extra bows so I'm not worried about altering a couple :)
http://www.sniperhawglights.com/
Hey Jeff, Is there an audible click on the switch? I though in on of the video's on the sight I could hear it as the turned it on and off.
My little bowlight I made, has a silent push button switch, and even though I've killed 3 hogs using it, I would like to have a bit brighter light.
I have another more powerful light that I could make into a kick-butt bow light, but it has an audible click that I'm afraid they might hear...
I suppose if in a stand, and they were crunching corn they wouldn't hear it. But if sneaking in on something close in the dark, they would hear it??
I also use a light at night for hogs and bow fishing with my longbow and curve. I use a stabalight. I place the pressur pad on the grip. Grip the bow, light comes on, pick a spot = great times and lots to eat. :archer2:
Curt,
The switches are two stage...
1) Light pressure turns on the light with No Sound but you need to keep the light pressure on.
2) Push it all the way in to keep the light stays on by itself, there is a slight click sound doing that.
There are two switches for low & high intense light. These lights are as bright as any I've seen. At Least equal to my Wensel ones. The red light is amazingly bright. I bought the package deal with two lights...red bow mount mini sniper & white regular mini sniper. The finger switch on the bow mount is interchangeable with the regular mini sniper flashlight.
I had a jerry rigged (actually Jeffrey Rigged) light on my bow before and this set up blows it away...Jeff
Looks like I'll be drilling a hole in one of my bows :knothead:
Great idea...like how you mounted the flashlights.
If you notice in my pic , there is a strap on adapter that has a rubber wedge to match the angle of the lower limb and give a 90 degree beam from the sight window of the bow. It's the exact same light as whip's. great light. comes with two batteries, charger, and two switches.