I also think that a Coleman lantern is the next best thing to the sun itself. However, you cannot exactly carry a coleman lantern in your back pocket. It gets hot, its glass globe is delicate, and it needs to be kept in the vehical until needed. Not a big deal in most of the places that I hunt, but some of y'all who hunt way off the beaten path might not want to trek a mile back just to get a lantern.

I also carry a surefire G2 and plenty of batts for it, they work great, but I did get sucked into buying a carnivore, and it does work nicely. However, if you live around an area with lots of pine needles, jap maples or certain types of beech and ash trees that drop red leaves in the fall (like red oaks), then that complicates things. Water drops on pine needles reflect as red quite often, not quite as bright as blood, but this is not a cure all solution. You still need to take your time, use good tracking common sense, and know when to slow down and back track or back out.