ORIGINAL: bearklr
ORIGINAL: Arrowmaster
Ok bowhunters come on now. Get a regular 9volt big flashlight and trail the deer. If you make a good hit its easy. If need be get a coleman lantern and track the deer. No need for these 50 to 100 dollar lights. I just cant see paying the money for all these expensive lights that wont do any better than a flashlight or a lantern.If your crawling around on the ground searching for blood, then your hit was poor. I mean I track every deer Ive shot and only one has given me trouble finding it, but I still found it with a regular flashlight. I dont know why hunters waste their money on stuff like this. Its foolish. Thats my opinion and Ive tracked many many deer with a regular flashlight. Sorry I guess Im old school...
I can tell you why I would "waste" money on this. Because when I take a shot at a deer I also take on the responsibility of exhausting every possible method to make sure that deer is recovered. That is the least all of us as hunters owe our quarry. If that means that I should spend 70 bucks to ensure a successful track then so be it. As far as not needing one I wish I didn't...and in most cases I don't. However, there have been times when I double lunged a nice buck and had him run hundreds of yards with but a single drop of blood every 30 yards or so. Why this happened I have no clue and it doesn't make any sense but stranger things have happened. If I would have had one of these lights maybe it would have been easier. I know after reading everyone else's reviews I'm definitely going to check them out.
IF you are hunting from the ground (making horizontal shots), the blood trail can be VERY sporadic or even non-existant until the deer's body cavity fills up to the arrow hole(s). It may expire before the blood gets up that high, so that means that there really isn't a trail. I helped a friend track a deer last season through some of the thickest woods I have ever been in. At most thre was a drop of blood every 30-50 yards. Somehow we managed to get the deer, but I think one of those lights may have helped.
I am very interested in hearing more reviews on them.