Feeder lights

[Dushon]

Yall ever tried this light? Boss man bought two and one works about half the time, and the other doesn't work at all. What do yall use?

[pigstika1978]

Solar panel landscape lights the flood light design at wal mart for around 10 bucks a piece and last for ever

[wade _s]

I recently got a EWT Kill Light Feeder Light and it works well.

[cgny27]

pigstika, can you be more specific? or show a pic?

[dustoffer]

Solar panel landscape lights the flood light design at wal mart for around 10 bucks a piece and last for ever

Bingo! And if you put up 3-4 of them, it is bright enough to use a rifle w/scope from 125 yds away as well. Simple to make--piece of 2x4 w/holes drilled for the stakes, and a piece of pipe or tall t-post. Use a lag screw to hold the 2x4 to the post.

Although not shown in this picture, I have also bought a flood-type light rather than spotlight types from HD, but it is $40 or so. However, it does the work of 3-4 of the cheap lights. Check on the boxes for lumen output which is a measure of relative brightness/light output.

[stickerpatch59]

Solar panel landscape lights the flood light design at wal mart for around 10 bucks a piece and last for ever

this^^^^^

[TXhoghunter94]

I use the Kill Light by Elusive Wildlife.

[Dushon]

Bingo! And if you put up 3-4 of them, it is bright enough to use a rifle w/scope from 125 yds away as well. Simple to make--piece of 2x4 w/holes drilled for the stakes, and a piece of pipe or tall t-post. Use a lag screw to hold the 2x4 to the post.

Although not shown in this picture, I have also bought a flood-type light rather than spotlight types from HD, but it is $40 or so. However, it does the work of 3-4 of the cheap lights. Check on the boxes for lumen output which is a measure of relative brightness/light output.

Easy enough, I'll try that

[Dushon]

Yall have any pictures of em at night?

[AJ the TP Guru]

Lloyd McCloy needs to come on here to show you how to use a $38 security light from Harbor Freight or Northern Tool. They come by different names, but each has 60 leds.

[Patton]

PigSlayer Package - Solar Light Package For Night Hunting

Lloyd McCloy needs to come on here to show you how to use a $38 security light from Harbor Freight or Northern Tool. They come by different names, but each has 60 leds.

The light we use is made from that light as well- Sunforce products.

The whole package is the PigSlayer Package - Solar Light Package For Night Hunting

[gonehuntin68]

Some things you should consider before you purchase a feeder light.

1 - Any light that only comes on when pigs are in the area will spook some pigs to never be seen again. Sure some pigs will get used to it but some wont and if you also deer hunt that spot you will also spook some deer to never return. If you have hunted pigs enough with a bow light or rifle light you have had pigs spook when you turned on the light and this is the same thing that will happen when this type of motion sensor light comes on.

2 - Those cheap $10 solar lights mentioned above will not light up enough to see all night long and if it's cloudy all day they wont even be bright enough to see to shoot after just a couple of hours or less. Do you really want to drive all the way to your lease for a night hunt to find out it's been real cloudy all day and your light is not bright enough to make a good shot.

3 - The closer the feeder light is to the pigs the more chance it has at spooking them and that's why you want one you can mount away from the feeder, the further the better. The feeder lights that mount right under or right next to a feeder will spook a lot of hogs. Sure some will get used to it but many will not. I had one of those green feeder lights that mount right under your feeder mentioned above and this particular feeder had pigs and deer hitting it every night before I put the light up. After I put up the light I didn't have a single picture of a deer or hog at night for a entire week. Now that light is just sitting in a drawer as it was a waste of money.

4 - Does the color of light matter, you bet it does. You will hear many people say it doesn't because they have a white feeder light or green and the pigs come right in but what they don't realize is how many pigs are not coming in because of the white or green light. How do I know this, simple, I have 17 feeder lights going and I had all three colors(RED, Green, White) and the Red lights consistently had more pigs hitting them especially the older boars and sows. I also noticed when I hunted the green and white feeder lights at how many pigs would just eat around the edges of the light and not come into the light. At the red feeder lights they would come straight in. I switched all my green and white feeder lights to red and instantly noticed a increase in pig activity at the feeder. The other thing I noticed was if I put up a red feeder light at a feeder that the hogs were all ready hitting every night they still came in the first night I put up the feeder light but when I put up a green or red feeder light it would normally take the pigs a few nights before some would come back in.

With all this said the cheap feeder lights do have their place because a lot of people don't want to spend the money on a real good feeder light and they just don't hunt the pigs that much so it doesn't matter if their light spooks some pigs as long as they can go out a couple of times a year and shoot a pig. For me though, I love hunting hogs and I want a light that gives me the best chance at shooting as many pigs as possible and that's why I designed our Exterminator feeder light they way it is.

I designed our feeder light to run all night every night without dimming the entire night. Even if it's cloudy for several days in a row our light will still run all night without dimming because our battery is big enough to run the light 4 straight nights without the solar panel hooked up. Our feeder light can be mounted up to 100 yards away from the feeder and still light it up enough to shoot with a gun with a scope but we recommend mounting it 20-40 yards away from the feeder. Our feeder light is all metal with nothing for the varmints/rodents to chew on. Of course all this quality comes at a price and that's why it cost $269.00 but we do give a 10% discount to TBH members.

Below is a video of a boar that came in right before our feeder light came on so you get to see the light come on and notice no reaction from the hog. The Exterminator feeder light in the video is 20 yards from the feeder and it is actually brighter then what you see in the video. Also as you can see our light is bright enough that you can video your night hunts and it doesn't take a expensive video camera as this video was made with a Sony handycam that cost less then $500 when brand new and it's now about 7 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_7FtBFFxiI

[AJ the TP Guru]

gonehuntin obviously has a dog in this hunt.

But I would refute much of what he says about "some" pigs never returning. We've been hunting the same blinds with infra-red activated lights for five years now, and have sufficient proof of the same boars and sounders returning week after week.

The first time they see it, they may be a little skittish, but that soon goes by the wayside.

Lloyd has a thread which shows you how to make the white leds turn red or green, and it works very well. http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...d.php?t=391226

At Harbor Freight this light is called the Bunker Hill Security Light.

[kenfa03]

[cgny27]

so why not turn a flashlight on before anything gets there...and leave it on the whole time you're hunting? just a thought...as I'm headed to the lease tomorrow for some evening hog hunting....