Lights - how many lumens are necessary?

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What would you say the minimum lumen level should be for night calling of coyotes? I want a small Surefire light and you can get them from 60 lumens in a 6v version up to several hundred lumens. I plan to use the attachable red filter you can buy.

My surefire G2 60 lumen light seems a little underpowered.
 
I use a streamlight TL3 (200 lumens) as a shooting light on the shotgun. This works awesome and is more light than is really needed for a shotgun. It would work well on a rifle where shots are held to 200 yds. as well.

I also have a TL2 Xenon (100 lumens) that will work very well on a shotgun. 100 yds would be my limit for this light though.
 
Thanks. On these lights, do you use a red filter? Surefire has a nice 110 lumen light. I just don't know if the red filter will attenuate it too much.
 
I USE A STREAMLIGHT STINGER ON MY /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif.223. THE RANGE IS LIMITED BUT VERY EFFECTIVE ON BOBCAT AND FOX. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I USUALLY GET THEM IN TO 20--50 YARDS BUT YOU CAN STILL MAKE A 100 YARD SHOT IF NEED BE. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif THIS LIGHT IS RECHARGABLE, I ALSO HVE THE SUREFIRE WITH 60 LUMENS, IT IS OK TO SPOT A CRITTER IN CLOSE AND USE TO LOCATE. IT JUST ISNT ENOUGH FOR THIS OLD MAN TO SEE AND SHOOT WITH..... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
I have a Black Ice by Browning flash light that is 90 lumen. It's VERY bright for such a small flash light, but if you add a filter to it, it dims significantly. I can actually use it for quick spotting if I need, but prefer an actual spot light.

Browning also makes this same flash light in 140 lumen. For such a small light, it packs the biggest punch that I have ever seen. It's much smaller than a mag light too.

http://www.browning.com/products/catalog/lites/category.asp?value=010H

It looks like the Hero is the brightest of all the hand helds.

I think this comes out to about 50,000 candlepower, but because it's in such a concentrated area, it looks much bighter. It look smore like 500,000.
 
I have the G2 and 6P Surefires. Put the 120 illum. bulb in both and get out to about 150 yrds or so. BEst light I have ever use or owned. Eats batteries though.
 
I was thinking of ordering a light form cabelas. It is 180 lumens and they make a red lens for it. Do you think this would be good for shotgunning? I trust cabelas brand because I own many of their products I just hope its bright enough.
 
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It is 180 lumens and they make a red lens for it. Do you think this would be good for shotgunning?



Should be plenty for a shotgun.
 
Shrek, just out of curiousity, with your .44 mag what distance to you limit yourself to in terms of accuracy?
 


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