spotlighting tips??

[YoungBuck14]

I just got a new spotlight for Christmas and I was plannin' on using it tonight. I have a red lens along with a yellow one, it's one million candle power. I'll be using a hand held injured rabbit call{which I also would like tips on}. How would I go about using a spotlight, and where would I set up and when do you use the light, any tips will be helpful the main game will prolly be yotes.
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Thanx in advance

[jmarriott]

First check your local game laws. Many state laws are different and could wind you up in some trouble.

Some states like texas (I believe) allow spotlighting and shooting from moving trucks. I have read about it and seen it done on tv.

Other states will get you if you even have a light on with the engine running, and a unloaded gun in the car even in the trunk.

Indiana allows night hunting as long as a light that can be seen for 500 feet (Or maybe yards) is burning the entire time of the outing. No spotlighting from a moving powered device, car, truck, Atv, boat with motor, ECT. read the local law first.

I use one of the lights that goes above the scope and only use it if I have to. I have 2 of the clipon flashlights that i normally keep on all the time with red lenses. I try to call where i have some light from the moon and a snow cover or a harvested bean or corn field. I got a large scope that gathers light with an illumanated dot and that helps to shoot without using the light much. I normally leave the big light off at least untill i see movement. Coyotes seem more light sensitive than fox that i used to hunt this way.

The call I have is prettty home made. I have a 8 ohm horn speaker with about 30 feet of speaker cable and both a sony waterproof walkman cassette and sony cd/mp3 player with some different tapes and a couple of cd/mp3's i got off the internet over time. I rigged both right and left channel to mono on the speaker and it is all right but could be a bit more volume when it gets real cold. Heck i used a sony boom box for several years. Not a sony salesman but they do make quality little players.

I use some type of decoy also. I have a kitten decoy i got at Cracker barrel that bounces around and i couple of rabbit skins and a ball that bounces and a feather cat toy that works well in the fence rows like a stuck bird. I think the decoy with the sound works best. Normally a rabbit roadkill or just the fur from a couple of hunted rabbits will work cheap.

If you get crows, owls (At night) , hawks, feral cats, neighborhood dogs. (I can't tell you how many beagle dogs i have called in with rabbit in distress tapes. ) You are doings thing correct.

[catmando]

Yougbuck i do alot of nite calling and some of it is rite around Abiline Tx the nite is the all around time to call the bobcats in there a lot easer to see at nite but use the red lens .We hunt out of a high rack on the back of a pickup pop in a tape or turn on the FoxPro and get after it as the sound is playing us your lite to scan with if you have a friend to do the scanning when a yote or cat comes in range have your friend to hold the lite behind and above you so you can see the target in your scope and lite the fire.if you can get a scopelite it helps alot.I made a scope light out of a million candle power spotlight i put two red lenss on it to cut the power down some but on the realy long shots you can pop the lens off and have alot more light to see the yote with most of them will stand there for 4 or 5 secounds so don't wast time .It tacks some time to get used to nite shooting most hunters over shoot there mark go out with the light and hit the jackrabbits real good practice.

[catmando]

Will youngbuck you spotlite any yet ?