Tracking deer at night light

[mainer]

Hello to the forum:

I am trying to choose a light for use in tracking/finding wounded whitetails. I hunt cedar swamps here in Maine and it can get really difficult to find a blood trail or even to find a dead deer after the sun goes down and the swamp bucks usually only move right at dark.

Requirements in no particular order or weighting

at least 1 hour runtime....prefer 2 hours

waterproof or very water resistant.may have to walk through waist high water..

Rugged..needs to be able to banged dropped and keep on ticking

flood beam/mod throw type light ... typically only have 150 yards or less line of sight

temperature of light that picks up blood???filters for blood??? not sure if this is even available

I am leaning toward this AE dive light...any other thoughts??... thanks in advance.

AE LifeLight 65
3hr runtime at 1000 lumens

 

[berry580]

I think you'd want a light with blue filter available which makes blood stand out more apparently.
Something like Eagletac T20C2 should suit your needs.

 

[defloyd77]

Check out Gerber's Carnivore series, they use red and blue LED"s that will make blood totally pop out. I believe they have 3 versions, 1 with a xenon main light, 1 with a Cree main light and a headlight with just the red and blue LED's.

 

[R@ndom]

An red/blue Aviatrix would of been perfect...

 

[Pacecar]

Check out the custom DDT RPG series of lights from TexasBoars.

 

[defloyd77]

Check out the custom DDT RPG series of lights from TexasBoars.

I'm really interested in seeing how red + green compares to red + blue.

 

[Pacecar]

The PRIMOS Bloodhunter light uses the red plus green led combination.

 

[defloyd77]

The PRIMOS Bloodhunter light uses the red plus green led combination.

I'm reading up on this PRIMOS Bloodhunter light on various sites, most of them say it isn't too good as a blood tracker, which makes sense as the blue and red combo uses the blue to make everything not blue dark and the red makes everything red appear 3 dimensional. Green wouldn't do this as the background is green, therefore there will not be the kind of 3 dimensional appearance as the red and blue trackers.