Never know who might be in the woods, private or public! You need plenty of light to see where you are walking so that you can make it to your spot. Little lights are for your wife' s purse. If you sprain or break a leg part, trip and bust up your weapon, walk into a branch ang gouge you eye, making to you spot will be entirely irrelevant. OR HEAVEN FORBID! (But every year we read the stories) You could get tagged by some irresponsible " hunter" who has a permit to shoot NOISES. Then you might go on " The Big Hunt In The Sky" with Heavenly Outfitters run by a couple of good old boys you might have heard of, namely J. Christ and his Father, O.M. God. (LOL).

Basically, you want to clearly see where you are going and others to be able to see that it is YOU going.

Both me and my son use lightweight Eveready elastic headband lights (2 AAA batteries) with 2 white and 1 red LED' s & a highly polished lense and reflector.
We put the superpowerful photo batteries in them from WOW! to SUPER WOW!
Only the white or red LED' s can be used at a time, you can see amazingly well in darkness with the red, and the white is unbelievably bright! Picked them up at Menards Store for 10 or 15 bucks. Really worth it! The white LED' s work great for finding blood after dark. And nothing beats having a light strapped to YOUR head, aiming where YOU' RE looking when it' s pitch black and you are gutting a deer.

The other lights we use into and out of woods at dusk and dark is our little carabeener type single LED lights, everyone on our properties have different colors so we know who is who, you can see these literally hundreds of yards away across open fields. The ones we got can be turned on bright, medium or low, fast blink (bright only) or slow blink (bright only).

Between these two lights the total weight is only a couple ounces.

I also keep a Lumalight rechargeable in my pack. It kinda looks like a (3) D-cell Maglight, but is rubberized and uses a 12V/120 volt charger system and a single battery pack that looks like (3) D-cells shrink wrapped together. It will temporarily blind you! (I didn' t tell my wife is cost two bills at Grainger when I bought it-I saw it and had to have it). This thing will spotlight fields no problem. I know my son keeps another light in his pack too, (3) C-cell maglight I think.

Uncle Matt (in IL)