Blue light or Blue Blood Tracker?
 

Has anyone every tried using a blue light while tracking hit deer after dark? Supposedly it makes the blood glow? Also a product called Blue Blood Tracker is being advertised in some of the bow hunting magazines as a spray which makes blood glow?

Anyone ever tried either of these techniques?

RE: Blue light or Blue Blood Tracker?
 

My expierences have taught me that blue light may make blood shine and green light makes blood look like tar, but nothing beats the old fashion latern, or regular flashlight not a LED one, it's kind of unatural for me when the sun is yellow and a led light is white to look for blood, back a few years ago my cop buddy brought some of this type of spray they use in detective work to find blood on a track job, if you made a questionable hit on a deer your going to need gallons of the stuff to find blood , you have to spray everthing in sight. Does it work, sure it does but it can get real expensive real quick, especially if you don't find the deer. It makes the blood turn blue, depending on what type you use. My opinion, use a regular latern or flashlight.

RE: Blue light or Blue Blood Tracker?
 

a colman lantern is hard to beat really makes the blood glow, some of the sprays are supposed to work, but i've never used them;)

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I've tried the blue light thing on tracking and I don't see where the blue light makes the blood show up better. In fact when I tried it the blood looked black to me. If I'm having a hard time following a blood trail, I either use a coleman lantern or a rechargeable spotlight.

RE: Blue light or Blue Blood Tracker?
 

Nothing beats the lantern. I'm amazed at people that say they go out with flashlights to try and track.

RE: Blue light or Blue Blood Tracker?
 

I got one of those blue LED lights for christmas last year. I forgot I had it, until I was in camp this year and I took a bloody arrow and shined it at it in the dark. In the house it definitely made the blood glow. Then we went out to track the deer and in the outdoors it made the blood look black and didn't help a bit. Its still a decent flashlight but it isn't worth a Sh*t for tracking. Get a coleman latern instead (in fact get two laterns for the price of one of those blue LED flashlights, they're expensive.)

RE: Blue light or Blue Blood Tracker?
 

I also own a streamlight stylis which is green, great for getting to and from the stand or digging thru your bag in the treestand, but worthless on the track job. A battery powered spotlight is an excellent idea that was mentioned before. One elemental truth if you hit them in the right spot any light will do, because only only reason you need it is to field dress your deer in the dark.

RE: Blue light or Blue Blood Tracker?
 

I keep reading about using Coleman laterns for tracking. What type works, the one that uses propane or the one that uses Coleman gas? Thanks
-Rick C.

RE: Blue light or Blue Blood Tracker?
 

Rick, either one will work, but I prefer to use the propane ones. They are less messy and you stand lees of a chance of something happeining with the fuel. That stuff is waaaayyyy more flammable than gasoline. Besides, with the propane one, you can carry extra bottles with you pretty easily.

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Coleman Lantern Anyday

RE: Blue light or Blue Blood Tracker?
 

to use tracking led lights, the combination is red and white. the ones used for tracking have 3 white led's and 1 red one. they are set about 3 inches from each other in a square pattern. it supposedly makes the blood 'blink'. i tried a blue one - don't waste your money. blue is good for looking into water. if i ever get a deer this year i'm going to try my white led flashlight with my red led headlight and see if it works.

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I have used (unsuccessfully) Starlight Bloodhound. The stuff comes in a bottle similar in size to a jug of Windex. It should come in a 55 gallon drum, because that's how much you'll need.

I carry one of those rectangle-shaped disposable flashlights that firefighters use. You can pick em up for 2.29 at WalMart (light, bright, durable). I also bought an LED head light made by Energizer - the best $13 investment I've made in a while. (runs on three AAA batteries for about 60 hours)

For more involved tracking jobs (gutshots, etc.) A rechargeable spotlight works great, but I'd wait till morning. Nothing illuminates quite like mother nature.

Blue blood tracker
 

It does not take a lot if you lose the blood trail you mist it in an ark it will help you locate the minute Blood drops it's to help you track the direction that you're wounded game went in. Then you should be able to track it when you pick back up the blood trail. There is nothing on the market that is truly fail safe. This was developed by a forensic chemist. He developed it for the blue color because he's color blind. It does work I have used it myself.