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Post by Junior on Apr 14, 2021 21:38:11 GMT -7
Figured Ken would get a kick out of this. Needed the headlamp but didn’t wanna throw my hat in the dirt.  |
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 15, 2021 7:39:47 GMT -7
You need to add rear view mirrors. Maybe a vitamin D dispenser too. No sun for so long is what got to your Mom . Every year by spring and the return of the sun just in the nick of time to save me from the several ways she had plotted to eliminate me. Lack of direct sun light no doubt causes depression in many people.
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Post by Junior on Apr 15, 2021 7:53:22 GMT -7
I don’t really have too much issue with the dark. We ran the trap line this year using almost 100% artificial light, headlamps mostly. It makes for a different experience snowshoeing through the woods with just a headlamp to light your way, but the trap line was very successful and we brought in about a dozen lynx, 5 coyotes, 8 fox and a wolf. Very seldom did we get to run the line during the day due to work.
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Post by missionary on Apr 15, 2021 12:43:41 GMT -7
It is amazing how different a known area looks at O dark 30. I walked past my stand equipped tree one morning at 3am. Went right past it another 30 yards before realizing I was at the river drop off. Started using a head mount from then on.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 15, 2021 15:37:31 GMT -7
For me artificial light in the dark blinds and disorients me. I have very good night vision given me by my creator. I remember coming out with a hunter after dark one evening. We had to walk down a very steep narrow and windey trail Each switchback in the trail ended in a cliff that would drop 150 feet or so.
It was very dark and I didnt know it but the client behind me was having trouble and was getting scarred. I guess he thought I couldnt see either.
Without warning he switched on a light and instantly I was like a one winged airplane. My reaction was to instantly drop to my butt and not move.
We talked and I assured him that I could see the trail and that if he stayed close enough behind me to touch me he would be safe but if he didnt turn the light off we were going nowhere.
Its a hard thing to explain because I am not seeing as with things in focus and not going on direct vision but peripheral vision, looking straight ahead but seeing to the sides. That is about as good as I can explain it. I know it is a God given gift and I dont question it I just use it.
I got the client out safely that night without lights. Its kind of funny because without light he was really scared but with light I was really scared.
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Post by Junior on Apr 18, 2021 8:10:47 GMT -7
I also have very good night vision, however it is still hard to make a trap set or something like that without light. It took me awhile to adapt to using a headlamp but I never leave without one with me now. I have learned how to quite accurately shoot a pistol in the dark with one, and actually made a perfect heart shot on a caribou last winter at night with one of my 44 mags.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 18, 2021 14:19:42 GMT -7
Yea I can see where walking in the dark would be different than working in the dark.
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Post by Junior on Apr 18, 2021 15:32:13 GMT -7
I knew I had a photo of that heart somewhere. About 40 yard shot in the dark with a headlamp. Lucky shot, but I’ll always play it off as a planned occurrence.  Attachments:
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Post by missionary on Apr 18, 2021 16:35:52 GMT -7
The practice makes the tough shots a reality.
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