Do blood trailing lights really work?

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Or is it just a gimmick. Tried to track my third bobcat last night, but couldn't even find blood after looking for over an hour. I'm chalking it up as a miss at 25 yards but would feel better about knowing if it was injured or not. Once the blood dries does it negate the light?
 
I was wondering if it was just a gimmick or if there was a decent light out there. One of my coworkers had bought that red/green light that was supposed to be for tracking and he said the same thing that he would rather use his regular light. I'm still struggling with the fact I missed a bobcat at 25 yards full front chest shot. I looked for over an hour and couldn't find any blood.
 
There was a product years ago that consisted of a spray bottle and a colored light. The spray would react with blood making it highly visible to the colored light. My understanding is it worked fairly well. I can't remember the name of it.


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I always wondered this very same thing. I have been wanting to try this with my green LED in one of my Kill Lights, just out of curiosity. I feel I've always had an edge for seeing blood while others can not. I guess everyone's eyes are different.
 
Maybe I watch too much TV (CSI, NCIS)....I think the stuff they spray is called luminall and they use a special light with a red lense to see the stuff.
 
Originally Posted By: RubenatorA quality led light works best for tracking blood in the dark.

I personally have found this to be the exact opposite. I use standard white lights for any trailing. I've tried leds numerous times with the same result. I have a hard time picking up blood with the led, but when I flip on my Milwaukee light, the blood is there. My dad and brothers have also found this to be the case also.

I do however carry an led with me. I use it to get in and out because my "normal" lights always seem to die about the time we find the deer.
 
An old timer once told me he used a spray bottle with hydrogen peroxide in it. When it hits fresh blood it foams. That's what I was told, can't say for sure.


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I have some experience with the one that Primos sells and I couldn't see that it worked at all.

In fact, it made the blood look black to me. I tried to trail a bobcat a few weeks ago with my red led light and could barely see blood at all with it.

I have found white light to be the best.

It is not very realistic to be able to follow a blood trail with a squirt bottle and light. You are going to run out of squirt pretty quick, plus you have to squirt it in the right place to begin with.
 
Had a buddy give me one so I set up a fake blood trail one night. The only thing I could see is that it made the blood seem "wet" or "sparkle" a little. So I tried it on a dew soaked night, everything looked the same. If the blood is pouring out of a critter on a dry night, you will see it with the bloodlight, but then, who would need "help" in this scenario?! I gave mine back to my buddy!
I put it in the same category as the "kruncher" call, lol!
 
I use the primos bloodhunter during bow season and it works great,also figured out if a hit deer goes into a swamp that is all tan colored grass,just use the green light and it shows blood as black. Been useing it for 5yrs and it's worked every time. Here we have alot of fall colors and it helps by not picking up every red,orange,purple colored leaves but the blood would show up.
 
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I have the Primos bloodhunter and used it on a deer with a so so blood trail this year and it worked great. I could spot the blood out up to 20 yards in front of me at times. It really made the blood stand out but you couldn't have any other lights around it. When someone else with a white light was close it didn't work very good.
 
The best blood trailing light is a Coleman gas-fired lantern. Next best is a regular incandescant (light bulb) flashlight. After that, would be a white LED light that has a 85+ CRI (color rendition index) rating.
Cool white LED lights are the worst.... well maybe the advertised "blood trailing" lights are the worst.
Here's a good drop-in LED for those flashlights that accept the D26 or 6P type of drop-ins (module).
http://lumensfactory.com/online_shop_product.php?id=200&cid=1&sid=&page=1
And here are some high CRI flashlights:
http://www.4sevens.com/index.php?cPath=297_456
http://hdssystems.com/?id=Edc&mType=Clicky&mFamily=S&mModel=E1S-Hcri
 
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Originally Posted By: PacecarThe best blood trailing light is a Coleman gas-fired lantern.

Why do you say this? What does the gas-fired lantern do the the LEDs don't?
 


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