hill billy Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 i am looking to buy a large scope mounted lamp that also comes with a battery, the reason for this is that i went out tonight looking for foxes with my 22-250 i spotted one but it was a bit lamp shy so it took me a while to get close enough to get posotive target recognision with my deben tracer lamp, can any one sudgest anything please, because i would of had the opitunity to shoot the fox many times if the lamp i had was powerful enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 Hi hill billy I too found the tracer (tactical version) has a short beam - thats ok ish for ratting or very close wabbits Now I'm no electronics expert - but able to use a voltmeter,I found that there was only 2 volts reaching the 6v lamp - even though it has a 12v battery pack!?! EH? A call to my clever'r brother revealed that the std NiMH's would not be able to feed it well enough (I think) and when a dimmer is used the voltage output would "be about half way the range" gobbledeegooksomething before I got lost in technoland To cut to the chase I bought 10 bigger capacity tagged cells (2500mah) from maplins @£40 :thumbs: soldered 9 of em together (broke one of the tags) and hey presto... I estimate I have trebled the range (it scares bunnies at 150yds+ish) and still have oodles of capacity left after a 4/5 hour stalk using it frequently - but not permantly I have now started to use a red filter which reduces its intensity - but still scares em if I use it at full power for more than a few seconds I pass them on a medium power scan - then come back on low power - prepare for the shot then up the power a bit for the kill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warcop Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 theres only one lamp to buy for the foxes and thats a lightforce...140 or 170...either of these will do....everything else is second best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted November 15, 2005 Report Share Posted November 15, 2005 LIGHTFORCE. Nuff said. Here is the link for more info: http://lightforce.com/ An Australian prduct, but any good UK Gun store will have them i would imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pigeonbasher Posted November 15, 2005 Report Share Posted November 15, 2005 try this chap, jhonsons field sports, 01246 477666 , he!ll post next day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy trucker Posted November 15, 2005 Report Share Posted November 15, 2005 theres only one lamp to buy for the foxes and thats a lightforce...140 or 170...either of these will do....everything else is second best 170 only especialy if ur gonna use a filter 2nd best they dont even get that close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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