Attaching a Green Light to Bow/ For Pigs

[PastorSteveHill]

Anybody know a way to attach a green light to a bow without a stabilizer insert?  

Does anyone make anything that would hold a green flashlight or something?  

Or what have you guys done???


We can hunt at night with green lights while deer season isn't in....  

Fun stuff if you've never done it!

[DanielB89]

what about one of the adapters from 3 rivers?

[WESTBROOK]

Great Northern gadget adapter

[PastorSteveHill]

Will check it out.. Thnx  Didn't know there was such a thing.

[bowhuntingrn]

This is what I use. Do a search for flashlight handlebar mount on the big auction site. You can pick them up for a few bucks (including shipping) and they work great.

If your bow is a 3pc takedown, it is easy to make a small adapter that will accept anything a stabilizer hole will. I designed and made one so I could use my string tracker.

Here is what I came up with (Not the light, but the little flat piece that the light is screwed to):



If you have a one piece bow, you are pretty much limited to the GN Gadget Adapter.

Bisch

[pdk25]

I do a few different things.  One easy way is to wrap velcro tape or rubber around the light body, then just use hair band to secure it to the riser.  Easy and off.  You can even do this at the sight window and use the hair band as an elevation marker.  It can be tough after dark, and every little bit helps.

[Alexander Traditional]

I think Eagle's Flight archery has a neat setup.

[stiknstringer]

You could use one of those green lcd hat clip lights and Velcro it to the side of your handle.      

[David M. Mathis]

I use a fishing strap on mount.

[beaunaro]

In Florida, whave always either used the GN gadget adapter(good for stalking or tree stands) or used a heat lamp clamp around the flashlight. (the kind you find at the feed store to keep the baby chicks warm).

Tighten the clamp which held the heat lamp around the flashlight barrel and clip that assembly to the tree stand, then shine it on the feeder.

Throw the heat lamp (sans clamp) away.

This year I found one of the hunters used a simple $20 clip-on white flashlight he purchased at Walmart. It was plenty bright enough, operated on 3 AAA batteries, and was highly adjustable.

Technique for night hunting hogs with bow and flashlight:

What I have found is that if the hogs are already
feeding before you turn on your light, it is imperative to point it up in the air, turn it on, then lower it slowly (as if turning up a dimmer switch) because a quick illumination or a rapidly moving (jiggling) light will spook them.

If you clip your fixed mount light to the stand or tree branch, it's best to turn it on before the hogs arrive, right at dusk, and do not move it.

The color does not seem to matter much...red, green, blue, or even white.

Motion of the light does matter so do it slooowly.

And if you are using a light in a ground blind, be sure the light is outside the blind or you will illuminate the interior, causing a stampede.

How do I know this?

Listening to a lot of hunters success and failure stories.

Night hunting for hogs is truly a blast!

Except for this year when trail cams showed the sneaky critters arriving somewhere between 9 PM and 3 AM.

It's tough to be out there during those hours.

I am partial to the Sniper Hog Lights brand of light.

Robert Pecht in Texas handles these and they are available on-line. Really good customer service.

I own three or four of his lights as once in awhile a hunter wants to borrow one.

One of these lights is about five years old and I needed a switch and an end cap.

Robert sent me two of each at no charge and no postage.


Illusive Wildlife makes them too, but I have seen more of these malfunction.

[Bud B.]

Don Ward, Eagle's Flight

http://www.eaglesflightarchery.com/product/night-light-bow-quiver/

[Caddo]

I just use Velcro and an elastic band. Piece of Velcro on the bow and opposite piece on the light. Then just wrap a piece of elastic cord around to keep in place. All of the aiming adjustment you could ever want and pretty darn inexpensive!

LD

[Crittergetter]

I run mine thru the bands that attach my strap on string tracker. Simple and done! I do put a dark colored sock around it to keep from scratching my bow to much!
For all you first time hog hunters (and even us experienced ones) I would go back and read Irvs post again and again!
Very good advice that will take a lot of time off the hog hunting "learning curve"!!!!!

[old_goat2]

To be "traditional" you have to use a flaming torch attached to your bow!    

[Car54]

I'm with old-goat on this one!

[Stump73]

BigJim hooked me up with this. He also sells other brackets.

[tarponnut]

I tape a light to the stand with electrical tape. I aim it at the corn pile. I don't turn it on until the hogs are settled in and feeding(plus it's fun to hear them crunching away:)

Once they are chowing dow, I tip the light up and then slowly bring it down(like Irv said).

I use the same technique for raccoons but they don't seem as bothered by the light as the hogs.

[tarponnut]

It seems like the stationary light is key(I imagine they think it's the moon?). For that reason I don't like a light on the bow as much(too many shadows moving for the hogs)

I think about this stuff far too much:)

[Feather Flinger]

Here's what I use.