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Blood trailing lights

Shoot a Simmons and you wont need a barge light to follow the trail. Seriously, havent used those lights you referenced. For me, lumens and flood beam is what makes the difference on a regular light. I havent had any issues trailing with a light north of 200 lumens. Thats on a poor blood trail. I'm using an HM65R fenix. If and when it dies, I will replace it with another one.
 
Bought one several years ago and it goes thru batteries quick and never helped me find blood when I could see it with my necked eye. But that was years ago maybe better now. Think it was a browning.
 
some claim that the type of bulb matters...zebralight offers different colors of white light....supposedly some lights wash out blood while others do not
 
Whatever spectrum of light a kerosene lantern is emitting is the best that I've seen with my eye.....just kinda hard to pack a lantern in my hunt vest.

My current headlight work ok. It's a cyclops brand... My friends husky headlight from HD was higher lumens and looked "more LEDish type light spectrum" if that makes any sense but we were tracking blood side by side and his was definitely superior seeing blood
 
I have a cheap one, primos blood hunter headlamp, it can switch from regular bright white to this more bluish light, but it's so much dimmer that the one time I blood trailed with it I just switched back to the brighter white floodlamp and found that to be easier. It's likely not a real UV light though, just a blue spectrum led to make the red pop a bit more I think. I since replaced it with a brighter white/red one, though a UV flashlight to leave in the truck and come back with if I fail on round 1 might be a good idea
 
I think making the night time into daytime is the key. I got a Fenix pd36r (I think) that runs for 2hrs at 1600 lumens. I tried the blood tracking lights and did not like them for blood. I do like them for not a white light walking into the stand. I helped a few guys track deer last year. Everyone turned off their head lamps and other lights when I showed up with the Fenix.
 
Forget the gimmick lights.

Invest in a High CRI (color rendering index) LED flashlight. Most LED's wash out red so it looks rather grey. High CRI makes the red pop.
 
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Any suggestions on make/model? My experience with the "blood" light I bought from Cabelas years ago was the exact same as @thedutchtouch

Mine is a 3-year-old Acebeam EC65 with a NICHIA 219C CRI90+ LED. With the evolution of LED's, there are probably far better flashlights available now. The main thing to look for is a CRI rating of at least 90. (CRI stands for "color rendering index).
 
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Mine is a 3-year-old Acebeam EC65. With the evolution of LED's, there are probably far better flashlights available now. The main thing to look for is a CR rating of at least 90. (CR stands for "color rendering).
So in other words the company built them specifically to have a "good" cr # and they would mention it in the description of the light? Husky, cyclops, Energizer doesn't mention anything about a CR# as far as I know so they probably low?
 
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