6mm06
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1lobo, here is a link on Amazon of the 940nm light I am using.
http://www.amazon.com/CMVision-Invisible...40nm+IR+198+LED
You can find the 850nm lights on Amazon and Ebay. They are easier to find and somewhat cheaper too.
I also have one of these, an 850nm with 140 LEDs. The 96 LED light is even cheaper.
http://www.amazon.com/Infrared-Illuminat...50nm+IR+140+LED
This is the 850nm light I have mounted on a tall 4x4 post.
I have heard of guys shooting coyotes under street lights (in the country of course). When I initially began baiting coyotes,
I was using a small 850nm IR light, 48 LEDs and let it run nightly. I first used 5 lights, but found that coyotes were sometimes
scared of them, so I cut it down to two lights and then eventually one. The light has it's own photocell (as do the larger units)
and will turn on at dust and off at dawn. If you can mount the light where you have AC power, that would be great, but you
can power it with a deep cycle battery too.
I had one small 48 LED IR light attached to a deep cycle battery and it would power the light for about two weeks before
needing a recharge. I used that setup when I first began shooting coyotes over bait with a Gen 1 scope.
Here is the small IR light I am referring to .
http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-LOCAL-48-LED-...=item4d28d51dfe
Trail camera IR is also a very good source of light for bait hunting. A trail camera or two set to video rather than photo,
will throw IR light for several seconds before turning off. I used to set my cameras to record the maximum amount of time,
generally 30 seconds, and reset as quickly as possible to begin recording again. That kept the area flooded with IR when
a coyote was at the bait site.
I first started with 5 of the small lights, wired together and operated via a remote controlled switch. The coyotes seemed
scared of this, but it sure does offer some good illumination. Each light can be rotated around and up and down to cover
a broader area.
This is an old video I took a few years back when I was using a Gen 1 scope. I have experimented a lot since
that time and now I use the home-made bullet camera unit instead. It sees so much better than the Gen 1 did.
But, there are all kinds of ways to bait site hunt, and even a Gen 1 with proper lighting can work very effectively.