Quote:I just used the wicked lights hog hunt last night on some rabbits. I am not impressed with this setup and I have a hog hunt coming up this weekend. I could get 50 yards for the eyes and 30 yards to just make out the rabbit body. I'm a little worried this set won't work will with hogs. My headlights are a lot brighter then this setup. I would scan an area and pickup nothing. I would then scan with a spotlight and 10 rabbits would be everywhere. I used my nitesite for years on rabbits and javelinas and nite site is so much better. I'm I doing something wrong with this setup?
I have the wicked lights and have used them extensively.
I can tell you that they will light up coyote eyes well over 200 yards, and I have killed coyotes at night at 200 with it.
I have also killed a lot of hogs with the set up, always using the red LED.
There are three possible explanations for your problem.
1. The fact that rabbit eyes do not shine very bright especially when compared to animals such as fox, coyotes, coon, cats, or deer. Rabbits can appear from seemingly nowhere, disappear just as fast.
2. The batteries were not fully charged. Were you using red LED?
3. We have a full moon right now. Don't know about where you were, but it was BRIGHT here last night. The darker it is, the better lights work regardless of red, white, or other. The ability of light especially red to illuminate eyes is greatly reduced under a full moon. This would be compounded when shining an eyes that do not shine bright to start with such as rabbits. My guess is that this was the problem, and a big reason I don't like to call predators under a full moon.
Hog eyes will not shine hardly at all at any distance, so they can be hard to see in brushy or thick cover.