Hog hunting setup for NIGHT

[Biggamefish]

I am looking to see what you guys and gals suggest for a light setup on your bows. I am looking for a strap on style. Three rivers has one that looks decent but just want some feedback before I purchase something that doesn't work.

Thanks

[Terry Green]

I'm not sure what 3 Rivers has, but Smokin Joe and I have had great luck with the strap mount from Eagle's Flight. I have 2 just in case I'm in camp and someone wants to go night hunting.

[Tim Finley]

I have a light that has a switch that velcros onto the side of your bow that with just a silent touch comes on and I just taped the light to my bow . But I have had only one hog that did not bolt when I moved the light down onto him I gave up on it and we now use kill lights and drive way lights that are solar powered and give different colored light we set it on  green. This year we had 11 of them in different places my son found a package deal on amazon with 6 lights for $40 hes been using em for several years they are bright they will light up an area for about 20 yards .

[GCook]

We use feeder lights.  Green.
Elusive Wildlife and a couple other brands.

[Terry Green]

We use feeder lights.  Green.
Elusive Wildlife and a couple other brands.

Feeder lights work great for hunting feeders.  I've shot several hogs at night by pure stalking so I just own one light for both.

[Wudstix]

I use a green head light while stalking and have had limited success.  Trick is to get the light on early in the process.
 

[Terry Green]

I use a green head light while stalking and have had limited success.  Trick is to get the light on early in the process.
 

The trick is not to move shadows, so I just it on at the last minute as moving and branches waiving shadows around can spook them.  If you are going to cut it on early, best move like molasses in winter if they is a lot of cover between you and them. And if in a stand move same as the shadows are worse from above.

[Wudstix]

I kinda do that, with a headlamp it is a tad more dicey, as I hear them coming my way (@20-30 yards out) I click the light on and have them walk into the light.  When it works its gold, if not you get to hear what a sounder sounds like leaving.
 

[Phillip Fields]

I use the Traditional Gadget Adaptor from 3 Rivers with a Sniper Hog Light, 38lrx.
 

It comes with 3 light colors (red, green, and white). Over the years my buddies and I have tried both green and red and have had better success with the red. Our experience has been that the pigs spook easier under green than they do under red. As mentioned above, the shadows are what seems to spook the pigs the most. I like to turn the light on with it pointed above the pigs and lower it onto target.

We also have some lights we can mount on the feeders, they are motion activated and come on gradually. For feeder lights I prefer the green.

[Wudstix]

My experience in Texas is that red does not work, it is almost as bad as white.  I guess they have been educated, here.
 

[Terry Green]

Phillip, not arguing,  but I'm still walking up and shooting them at 15 yards with green.  Have not tried red cause I never saw the need, but I do know Green is better than white!

[GCook]

I actually have mini-sniper hawglights in green and red.  I've killed them with both.  My red has a stabilizer bolt mount.  The green I strap on with elastic cord.  Honestly though I tend to go back to camp at dark.  Drink a highball.   Eat a snack a sleep.

[Phillip Fields]

Not trying to argue with anyone, just relating my experiences with the different colors of light over 20 years of hunting pigs in Texas.

[Onski316]

I have a friend that's a hog hunting nut here in Texas and he swears by green feeder lights and red gun/bow/headlamps. That said, I don't have a good response to your strap on light method. I know 3Rivers has one but have never tried it. I use and old TBOW that has a stab mount and use a light with trigger mounted to that, similar to how you would mount one on a compound. I've used headlamps too but I have to cock them to the side a bit to get a good beam when at full draw. Whatever you decide on, actually practicing with it at night is a huge must. A buddy of mine took a mini Mag style light with trigger and just strapped them to the side of his riser with and old bicycle inner tube. Kept it from sliding around and marking up his bow. Think it was on a SuperK which has a blockier lower riser under the grip which worked well for him.

[Terry Green]

Not trying to argue with anyone, just relating my experiences with the different colors of light over 20 years of hunting pigs in Texas.

Thank you! I started in TX in 06 but not a resident. Much appreciate your input.

[GCook]

It's funny because some pigs just don't react well to any light.   
Most often I start well above them and slowly bring it down and see what their reaction is.   
Most times though it's on corned roads orbwhen they are on acorns so they are preoccupied with feeding.
I've heard blue will work but haven't tried it.
I do know for a fact Moses spooked the other night when shined with a green laser designator light.  Like he knew it.
So light intensity, shadows, etc probably all have different affects on different pigs.  A group of 80 to 100 pounders on a feed pile will not be as spooky as a mature lone boar.  Or a mature sow with piglets.   
Just have to be versatile and use different stuff.
Especially if you are like Terry and Phillip traveling to hunt them.  Better to be prepared.   Those of us fortunate enough to hunt them regularly a missed opportunity isn't a big deal. 

[Wudstix]

Interesting, that makes allot of sense about the individuality of pigs.  I guess most of the hogs I have the chance to hunt are so heavily pressured and red was the deal years ago, that the population "evolved" and the pigs that ran on red survived to breed.  The same will eventually happen to green and we'll move to blue, or something.  As mentioned by several above a key is the slow movement of the light used.
 

[pdk25]

I think pigs react very differently to lights based on their experience.  When I lived in Oklahoma, if you used a bow mounted light, either green or red, you had about a second to shoot after you turned on the light.  After that, they were gone.  Problem was I saw the same sounders over and over, and they had become educated to lights.  Best bet was definitely using a feeder light and letting the hogs get comfortabe at the feeder before stalking in from a long way away.  I killed a couple using a bow mounted light, but by far the exception to the rule.  In other areas, they don't seem to mind hardly at all.  Dendy Cromer kills tons of them stalking with the green light on in the fields in Georgia.  They don't seem to mind.  I still have a bunch of bow mounted lights just in case a hog is just outside the main beam of a feeder light and I can't see well enough for a shot.

[GCook]

Having the feeder lights is good but I think it does help to have a bow mounted light as well.  The ambient light it puts in the blind I think helps me "aim" and it definitely makes it easier to pick a spot.  I also think the pigs notice it less with the feeder light on.

[Russell Southerland]

Yeah I like Green the best.  Bow mounted as I don't hunt feeders much at all.  Feeder lights are useless if you aren't hunting them.