MSRP: $39.95
Elusive Wildlife Technologies Kill Light
I own around 1100 acres in Eastern Oklahoma and it butts up to about the same amount of property owned by my in-laws. We own quite a bit of oak laden creek bottoms and old fields that have grown up in green briars or sumac and the hogs seem to thrive in it. There is plenty of heavy cover to hide them during the day and wet comfy mud to fight the bugs off in the summer.
As an Oklahoma land owner I have permission from the local game ranger to hunt hogs at night to try to eliminate as many wild hogs from our property as we can. It's not my fault that hog depredation can be fun too. At least in theory!!
My friend, James Burns, owner and editor of www.backwoodsbound.com and Illinois resident was the first to try out the light on my Uncle's feeder and box blind two nights before the opening of muzzleloader season. The blind and light are almost 100 yards apart and the first thing I learned was it was too far for my camera to get a good image, but we spent a good 3 hours in the blind with no hogs showing up. With a good 3x9 scope you could see well underneath the light and could have easily taken a shot. The problem -- no pigs!!
We set up closer to the river bottom a few days later with my friend Todd's oldest son, Craig Evans. We put the blind up 30 yards from soured corn and the camera could pick up the pile of corn easily. Still no pigs, but we did let the light hang for 4 days and nights with it illuminated (powered by 4 Energizer C batteries) and it was still bright when we headed for Coyote Creek Ranch after the first of the year.
The Kill Light as seen from our blind
One of our goals while hunting at Coyote Creek Ranch was getting a good video of The Feeder Light in action. The owner, Donnie Hays, was very receptive to the idea and was more than a little curious about how it would work out himself. Our last evening at the ranch Mike VanSant and David Dell selected a feeder along the small creek that channels the run-off from the area we were hunting. Donnie told us it threw right after dark, but Mike and David wanted to set up about 30 yards and across the creek from the feeder and light. They scattered corn from the feeder to a big pile they poured, positioning the feeder light about five and a half feet above the corn. They turned it on and came back to camp.
We had decided David Dell was going to be our shooter and he had my M1A in .308 with a ten round magazine of 180 grain bullets. He was only going to need one. Donnie had agreed to let us take one hog under the light and we wanted a smaller hog to put on the smoker whole. A forty to sixty pound hog would fit the bill and provide a heck of a superbowl party main entree!!
Donnie took us to the blind on the opposite side of the creek. Mike and Blaine came along and were going to sit in a double tree stand that would allow them to watch and possibly film the action too.
As David and I entered the blind, I could see they had done a great job. The light was bright and we were set up within a minute. David set up his shooting stick and I got the camera focused and we heard the feeder throw in the distance. It was a good 20 yards past the feeder light, but it was too dark to see it.
After a few minutes we could hear hogs in the field to our left and in front of us. We heard the hogs work their way up to the feeder and feed in the darkness. No hogs approached the light and I was wondering why none had followed the trail of corn to the light.
My breath caught as I heard the sounds of hogs back behind us. We heard them grunting and the leaves rustling as they came in from behind us and actually rubbed the side of the blind as they came through. I had had this happen once before down in Goliad, but it was still as exciting as the first time!
The hogs crossed the creek and hit the corn under the light first. We watched as 4 to hogs fed under the light for over 10 minutes. Along the edge of the light we could see more hogs, but the camera didn't pick them up. David said the view through the scope was unbelievable. He said the hogs under the light were easy to shoot, but even the ones behind them could have been taken!
First hogs to come to the corn under the light.
The problem with the way we scattered the corn was he had too many hogs in a row and we were shooting a .308 that was going to punch through any hog we shot. David had picked out a small one, but whenever it got open for a shot a bigger pig would come in and push it out of the light.
More hogs
Finally the smaller pig moved to our right and David shot him. It crumpled and the hogs scattered. They stayed scattered for maybe 10 seconds and then they came back to the corn. We sat there in awe thinking that if the pigs in Oklahoma did this we would have more pigs than we could clean in one night!
Mike and Blaine were discussing the hunt and their voices finally spooked the pigs and they ran off. David had called Donnie and told him we were ready for him to pick us up.
David and his incredible shrinking hog. You will understand when you see the video!!
The pig David killed was smaller than we first thought and instead of a 60 lbs pig we ended up with a 30 lb pig that we dressed out and cut right down the middle to smoke both halves on David's big smoker.
The Feeder Light did what it was advertised to do. Since we purchased ours the price has went up to $39.95 on their website, but for the price it is still a good economical purchase for night time hog hunting. The length of the battery life surprised us. The case is not waterproof but it is water resistant. Connected to the bottom of a feeder I am confident it would be protected well enough from the elements that the case should not be a problem. Check out our video of this hunt.
David Falconer and David Dell with the Kill Light
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