If you've never used chem lights to mark a deer you've shot in the late evening, I highly recommend you do. I used to just throw an orange vest over deer i needed to go back and drag out after dark, but once the sun goes completely down, an orange vest is near invisible, even when searching for it with a flashlight. A couple of chem lights hung in the trees around your kill, along with a orange vest to keep the Coyotes at bay, will allow you to go get your sxs or grandkids to drag it out and easily find it as you snake through the thickets in pitch black.
Chem lights
- Thread starter huvrman
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BSK
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Always have a handful of chem lights in my hunting pack. Marking a downed deer after dark with a chem light in branches nearby makes for a very easy return to the spot.
Great idea. Never thought of that.
Good idea, never thought of that. Usually tie making tape on limbs where I can marking the trail.
LanceS4803
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I like it.
Wouldn't work too well with some IR chemlights I still have.
Have to make sure the regular ones go in the pack.
Wouldn't work too well with some IR chemlights I still have.
Have to make sure the regular ones go in the pack.waynesworld
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That is a great idea it would probably help marking blood trails in the dark you can cut one and drip it random as you see blood. I had one that took forever to track because i would lose the trail and have to go back and start over.
Dripping would take more of the liquid than you think to illuminate it to the point of being able to see it as you trail and backtrack. But, they are really cheap and you can get mini chem sticks (half size) to just hang in the trees along the blood trail.
JCDEERMAN
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Great idea
DoubleRidge
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Never thought of that! Great idea!
Really good idea. Thanks for sharing! Yet another great tip from TNDeer!!
KPH
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While I like the idea I just use my Gamin Just make where it is and you can even follow the bread crumbs if needed.
DayDay
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I may give this a try. Right now, I use clothes pins that I have put reflector tape on. This works well as I know I can get close enough for my flashlight to light up the reflector tape. If the deer is in the middle of a field, I'll attach to the antlers or ears.
The clothes pins are easy to attach to limbs and remove on the way back out if marking a trail.
The clothes pins are easy to attach to limbs and remove on the way back out if marking a trail.
