Given the fact that most Bigfoot sightings seem to happen along roadsides at night, proper vehicle lighting becomes very important. I’m not really talking about paved roads here. A lot of us drive backwoods roads at night quite often in search of Bigfoot. I know I sure do and I usually have a passenger with a video camera ready to rock as well.
To start make sure your stock headlights are in good working order. Make sure the lenses are not cloudy or dirty. The easiest way to improve your lights is to install Sylvania Silver stars bulbs. They work much better than stock headlights. My stock Jeep Cherokee lights were great thought. So I didn’t bother the Silver stars. I went straight for some real off road driving lights. 130 watt KC slimlites to be exact and they work very well.
If you’re serious about driving back roads looking for Bigfoot then here is what I would recommend. At least one pair of 100 watt driving lights and one pair of 100w spotlights. The driving lights let you see the sides of the road better as well as reaching out down the road a bit further but most importantly they provide more light right in front so you can see rocks or branches in the road. The spotlights will shine way down the road letting you see Bigfoot’s eye shine hundreds of yards away. If you only have room to mount one set of lights then get the driving lights.
Cheap lights can work well and last along time. Just make sure they have at least 100w bulbs in them. Midrange price wise Procomp Explorer lights are good, as are KC brand lights. There are a lot of other brands out their but these brands offer good value. Do spend a little more money on the driving lights than the spotlights. It’s harder to make a good driving light than a good spotlight.
Whatever you choose make sure to run a relay!!!!!! I know KC light kits come with super wiring kits and instructions. Also if you can run the lights so after you hit an arming switch the off road lights will come off and on with your high beams. It makes things much easier if you haft to pass another car. And remember don’t use those extra lights on busy public roads. You’ll blind oncoming traffic and also make the police very angry.
I’m sure a few other folks on the forum can ad to this thread as well! Just thought I’d bring up the subject. I know my off roads lights came in handy last time I went out looking for Bigfoot. With a broken toe all I can do right now is drive around. Although we only saw a raccoon my off road lights sure let us know he was there.
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Full Version: Proper Vehicle Lighting For Bigfoot Hunting.
How about no lights? Might work...
I hope you like talking to the police and letting them search your car/truck as everyone that sees you driving with them sort of lights will be stopping you. Make sure you have no gun or bow in your car/truck as that with the bright lights and you are spot lighting and they will take you to jail no matter what you say. You can say your looking for Bigfoot or UFO or what ever but if you have a weapon and them lights on your butt is going to jail. They will just say you had not seen anything yet (meaning game animals).
I know here in Florida just having them lights on while you have a weapon in the car/truck is spot lighting and they will charge you with it. A friend of mine made that mistake and he was not hunting, Just him and his girl out looking at animal. And like myself back then always had some sort of weapon in his truck.
I know it is sad that they would not believe anyone was not hunting a game animal. But the facts are way to many people do just what was said about while looking for deer and other animals.
I know here in Florida just having them lights on while you have a weapon in the car/truck is spot lighting and they will charge you with it. A friend of mine made that mistake and he was not hunting, Just him and his girl out looking at animal. And like myself back then always had some sort of weapon in his truck.
I know it is sad that they would not believe anyone was not hunting a game animal. But the facts are way to many people do just what was said about while looking for deer and other animals.
YEP!!
Actually I would love to run without lights. But a thermal-driving camera is a little out of my price range. God I want one though! "micahn" I didn’t mean police type spotlights. Can't believe the police had the nerve to do such a thing to your friend.
I don't carry hunting type weapons with me. Plus I have a CHL license and if the local coppers want to get funky with me about that then let them. Given the amount of camera and track casting stuff I carry around with me a charge would be out of the question. Just make sure to carry your normal BF stuff. Besides what’s the point to driving around looking for Bigfoot if you can’t at least have photo to remember the experience???
Love to talk to our local liberal newspaper about the fact that the cops are harassing longhair people while they are out looking for Bigfoot. Trying to prove its existence so Bigfoot can be protected. That newspaper would have a field day!! Even though I hate that paper they do stick up for people!! Not that we actually have cops around here though. I've called the local cops a few times and they won't even come out. Enough people around have off road lights on their rigs that the cops don't even bat an eye at them. That is as long as you don't use them on busy and or public roads.
But to suggest that people sacrifice there off road night visibility and thereby their safety to avoid the police wrongfully accusing them of a crime is "TREASION". If the police are doing this to people then stand up and fight. Fight for your rights as an American. If we do not stand up for what is right then nothing will be right or free. That's kind of the whole point to being an American. Um duh freedom isn’t free.
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I don't carry hunting type weapons with me. Plus I have a CHL license and if the local coppers want to get funky with me about that then let them. Given the amount of camera and track casting stuff I carry around with me a charge would be out of the question. Just make sure to carry your normal BF stuff. Besides what’s the point to driving around looking for Bigfoot if you can’t at least have photo to remember the experience???
Love to talk to our local liberal newspaper about the fact that the cops are harassing longhair people while they are out looking for Bigfoot. Trying to prove its existence so Bigfoot can be protected. That newspaper would have a field day!! Even though I hate that paper they do stick up for people!! Not that we actually have cops around here though. I've called the local cops a few times and they won't even come out. Enough people around have off road lights on their rigs that the cops don't even bat an eye at them. That is as long as you don't use them on busy and or public roads.
But to suggest that people sacrifice there off road night visibility and thereby their safety to avoid the police wrongfully accusing them of a crime is "TREASION". If the police are doing this to people then stand up and fight. Fight for your rights as an American. If we do not stand up for what is right then nothing will be right or free. That's kind of the whole point to being an American. Um duh freedom isn’t free.
R
sounds like someone needs to grow up. listen to good advice and realise they don't know it all. if you have a weapon ah never mind your not worth my time.
Maybe the thing to do is not to drive around, possibly breaking laws that you might not be well versed in, but rather studying the area, finding a likely spot, and when you get there, actually getting out of your car or truck or whatever, and just hanging out for a few hours. I'm not sure, but it should be okay for you to have a flashlight? Am I totally clueless & off base, or what? And what's wrong with camping out in an area? Another option...?
I don't understand this whole driving around with bright lights thing. Is this a normal thing that hunters do? I'm not a hunter. The animals aren't nailed to the ground. They're gonna move. I don't see the point. I don't see how a light is going to help. To me, looking to catch a bigfoot like that is akin to going out in the middle of the night with all sorts of fancy gear, trying to sight a skunk, or porcupine, or raccoon. Or a deer or elk or bear. What's the point? That's a random access thing. I just don't understand this whole thing.
I drive to my sister's house 2 or 3 times a week. In the country. We're talking farmland here, lots of vineyards, corn, soybeans, orchards (a few, not as much as the other), overgrown nurseries, woods & ravines. Just plain out in the sticks. I've been doing that for about 12 years now, in all kinds of weather, at various times of day and night. I have never once seen any kind of critter on the road. Not even a bunny.
However, I've been at my sister's house @ all times of day & night. They are situated in an rural area, but not isolated, by any means. They own 15 to 20 acres of undeveloped property. It's mostly scrubby--not real big, not extreordinarily woody. On three sides there are extensive grape vineyards, and beyond that are corn fields. The other side are an overgrown landscaping nursery with various large shrubs & trees, and probably a 15 acres of woodland. There's a small village within a mile or two, and the rest is farmland similar to what I've described.
Anyway, in the hundreds of times I've driven the various routes to her house, not once have I seen even one critter... No squirrel, coon, porcupine, skunk, rabbit... Nothing. I have seen large deer just off the road who were dead, obviously killed by a passing car, but nothing alive while I'm driving. Why?
Because my sister has a barn, and the place looks like a farm, people keep dropping off cats/kittens at her house. She keeps em, and feeds em and cares for em when they're sick, and takes them to the vet when they need it. They're outdoor cats, and that means food outside. That attracts critters of the wild kind, and those critters attract critters of the larger wilder kind.
Just sitting in my sister's kitchen, I've seen more wild critters than in my own yard. She puts the cat food right outside the sliding glass door. Last week I saw a raccoon. I went right up to the door, knelt down, and was within one foot of the animal. Didn't bother him a bit. He just kept eating the cat food. I tried to stare him down, but he didn't budge. Last week it was a skunk. Kept my distance there, 'cause I didn't want to rile it. Had to get home that night!! We've sat out on her deck, watching the sun go down, listening to the coyotes cry just at the back of their property. The deer have been there. I haven't seen em, but they have. You get my point, maybe? This hasn't just happened once, but many times.
Why sit your butt in a truck or car, driving around in the dark with a big light, risking some kind of ticket from the law, when you can just sit at home, enjoy nature, risk nothing (legally), and see what's there? Seems like there's a better way.
Where's the flaw in my thinking? If this is a hunting thing, let me know. Else, why?
I don't understand this whole driving around with bright lights thing. Is this a normal thing that hunters do? I'm not a hunter. The animals aren't nailed to the ground. They're gonna move. I don't see the point. I don't see how a light is going to help. To me, looking to catch a bigfoot like that is akin to going out in the middle of the night with all sorts of fancy gear, trying to sight a skunk, or porcupine, or raccoon. Or a deer or elk or bear. What's the point? That's a random access thing. I just don't understand this whole thing.
I drive to my sister's house 2 or 3 times a week. In the country. We're talking farmland here, lots of vineyards, corn, soybeans, orchards (a few, not as much as the other), overgrown nurseries, woods & ravines. Just plain out in the sticks. I've been doing that for about 12 years now, in all kinds of weather, at various times of day and night. I have never once seen any kind of critter on the road. Not even a bunny.
However, I've been at my sister's house @ all times of day & night. They are situated in an rural area, but not isolated, by any means. They own 15 to 20 acres of undeveloped property. It's mostly scrubby--not real big, not extreordinarily woody. On three sides there are extensive grape vineyards, and beyond that are corn fields. The other side are an overgrown landscaping nursery with various large shrubs & trees, and probably a 15 acres of woodland. There's a small village within a mile or two, and the rest is farmland similar to what I've described.
Anyway, in the hundreds of times I've driven the various routes to her house, not once have I seen even one critter... No squirrel, coon, porcupine, skunk, rabbit... Nothing. I have seen large deer just off the road who were dead, obviously killed by a passing car, but nothing alive while I'm driving. Why?
Because my sister has a barn, and the place looks like a farm, people keep dropping off cats/kittens at her house. She keeps em, and feeds em and cares for em when they're sick, and takes them to the vet when they need it. They're outdoor cats, and that means food outside. That attracts critters of the wild kind, and those critters attract critters of the larger wilder kind.
Just sitting in my sister's kitchen, I've seen more wild critters than in my own yard. She puts the cat food right outside the sliding glass door. Last week I saw a raccoon. I went right up to the door, knelt down, and was within one foot of the animal. Didn't bother him a bit. He just kept eating the cat food. I tried to stare him down, but he didn't budge. Last week it was a skunk. Kept my distance there, 'cause I didn't want to rile it. Had to get home that night!! We've sat out on her deck, watching the sun go down, listening to the coyotes cry just at the back of their property. The deer have been there. I haven't seen em, but they have. You get my point, maybe? This hasn't just happened once, but many times.
Why sit your butt in a truck or car, driving around in the dark with a big light, risking some kind of ticket from the law, when you can just sit at home, enjoy nature, risk nothing (legally), and see what's there? Seems like there's a better way.
Where's the flaw in my thinking? If this is a hunting thing, let me know. Else, why?
Humm seems I have been talking to the trees again. I hate when that happens. –End of my participation in this thread. (Insert spiteful comment here)
in every state in the union driving with bright lights and a weapon is a no no. spotlighting is one of the top sins a poacher can make. this is because most animals look into the light and freeze. thus it is illegal. so if your out doing this and you have a weapon in the vehicle you will get in trouble. it can be from being stopped searched and questioned to having your truck and everything in it seized.
rains is a know it all. he constantly argues with advice given to him on his ideas. he is the worse kind of ignorant. so ignorant he doesn't know he doesn't know. people have only tried to give him the benefit of their knowledge but as a know it all he is anal in his refusal to accept it.
as far as i am concerned he can go out and have all this happen to him. or he can listen to those who want to help and learn like any good researcher does. don't repeat the mistakes of others.
if he doesn't think this wont happen good for him. all he has to do is be seen and someone will report him and in this case it wont be innocent until proven guilty. he can scream treason all he wants and it wont matter
rains is a know it all. he constantly argues with advice given to him on his ideas. he is the worse kind of ignorant. so ignorant he doesn't know he doesn't know. people have only tried to give him the benefit of their knowledge but as a know it all he is anal in his refusal to accept it.
as far as i am concerned he can go out and have all this happen to him. or he can listen to those who want to help and learn like any good researcher does. don't repeat the mistakes of others.
if he doesn't think this wont happen good for him. all he has to do is be seen and someone will report him and in this case it wont be innocent until proven guilty. he can scream treason all he wants and it wont matter
QUOTE(micahn @ Feb 24 2006, 08:47 PM) 
I hope you like talking to the police and letting them search your car/truck as everyone that sees you driving with them sort of lights will be stopping you. Make sure you have no gun or bow in your car/truck as that with the bright lights and you are spot lighting and they will take you to jail no matter what you say. You can say your looking for Bigfoot or UFO or what ever but if you have a weapon and them lights on your butt is going to jail. They will just say you had not seen anything yet (meaning game animals).
I know here in Florida just having them lights on while you have a weapon in the car/truck is spot lighting and they will charge you with it. A friend of mine made that mistake and he was not hunting, Just him and his girl out looking at animal. And like myself back then always had some sort of weapon in his truck.
I know it is sad that they would not believe anyone was not hunting a game animal. But the facts are way to many people do just what was said about while looking for deer and other animals.
I know here in Florida just having them lights on while you have a weapon in the car/truck is spot lighting and they will charge you with it. A friend of mine made that mistake and he was not hunting, Just him and his girl out looking at animal. And like myself back then always had some sort of weapon in his truck.
I know it is sad that they would not believe anyone was not hunting a game animal. But the facts are way to many people do just what was said about while looking for deer and other animals.
Well, I live in the area Rains lives in. That being said...
*Yeah, if the local county mounties, state game dept., Mr. Ranger (feds), etc. find you with bright search lights and any sort of hunting weapon... Yeah, they could hassle you for having night hunting equipment. Problem is that with all of the budget cuts at county, state, & federal level, there ain't too many authorities out in the woods anymore. Which leads us to...
*The locals will probably leave you alone, figuring you're a marijuana transporter, a poacher, or a meth-gear dumper. I.E. Don't get involved. The worst that could happen is that they'll ask where you got your light gear, cause they want the same stuff.
*The only people around here who would bother you are:
-The real marijuana growers.
-Territorial mushroom pickers.
-The real meth-goons
-Guys in the woods who want to play Rambo. (rare, but they're out there)
-Super territorial/paranoid land owners who think that if you're on a public road that runs along your property, you must be a tresspasser.
*All in all, the most likely thing to happen to you would be the off-road vehicle owners wanting to talk shop and ask where you got your rig's goodies and jaw on about their rig.
QUOTE(Devious Ape @ Feb 28 2006, 11:01 AM)
Well, I live in the area Rains lives in. That being said...
*Yeah, if the local county mounties, state game dept., Mr. Ranger (feds), etc. find you with bright search lights and any sort of hunting weapon... Yeah, they could hassle you for having night hunting equipment. Problem is that with all of the budget cuts at county, state, & federal level, there ain't too many authorities out in the woods anymore. Which leads us to...
*The locals will probably leave you alone, figuring you're a marijuana transporter, a poacher, or a meth-gear dumper. I.E. Don't get involved. The worst that could happen is that they'll ask where you got your light gear, cause they want the same stuff.
*The only people around here who would bother you are:
-The real marijuana growers.
-Territorial mushroom pickers.
-The real meth-goons
-Guys in the woods who want to play Rambo. (rare, but they're out there)
-Super territorial/paranoid land owners who think that if you're on a public road that runs along your property, you must be a tresspasser.
*All in all, the most likely thing to happen to you would be the off-road vehicle owners wanting to talk shop and ask where you got your rig's goodies and jaw on about their rig.
*Yeah, if the local county mounties, state game dept., Mr. Ranger (feds), etc. find you with bright search lights and any sort of hunting weapon... Yeah, they could hassle you for having night hunting equipment. Problem is that with all of the budget cuts at county, state, & federal level, there ain't too many authorities out in the woods anymore. Which leads us to...
*The locals will probably leave you alone, figuring you're a marijuana transporter, a poacher, or a meth-gear dumper. I.E. Don't get involved. The worst that could happen is that they'll ask where you got your light gear, cause they want the same stuff.
*The only people around here who would bother you are:
-The real marijuana growers.
-Territorial mushroom pickers.
-The real meth-goons
-Guys in the woods who want to play Rambo. (rare, but they're out there)
-Super territorial/paranoid land owners who think that if you're on a public road that runs along your property, you must be a tresspasser.
*All in all, the most likely thing to happen to you would be the off-road vehicle owners wanting to talk shop and ask where you got your rig's goodies and jaw on about their rig.
LOL, I say slap the roof lights on the 4X4, get the 5millionCW spotlight, and don't forget the beer!
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LOL, I say slap the roof lights on the 4X4, get the 5millionCW spotlight, and don't forget the beer!
Well, now, there's some advice to consider. :new_weirdsmiley: Looks like we gotta learnin' experience comin' up here, guys! :doh: I can't bail ya out 'cause I'm currently not workin'... Mmmmmm, maybe in a month or two...
So I'm apoppon' up the corn with a little butter, and will be checkin' in from time to time... Keep us all posted! :popcorn2: :popcorn2:
I had real high hopes ya'd see things my way and keep your bejeebers out of trouble, but ya must be young & have time on your hands. On the brighter side, maybe the cops will arrest a bigfoot & he'll be in the cell next to ya! Awesome, dude!!! Hope he's not one of the smelly uns!
Good Luck! So be it... still like the idea of parking the damned SUV. Gettin' your butt out there 'n walkin' around on your own two feet... Oh baby! Talk about bait! Oh Yeah! Guess I'm watchin' too much Emeril...
QUOTE(Wldcat @ Mar 5 2006, 04:28 PM)
LOL, I say slap the roof lights on the 4X4, get the 5millionCW spotlight, and don't forget the beer!
I found a 90 million candle power spot for sale, but it was a marine (boats, not military) one. Of course if you can get it mounted on the top of your pickup...
It takes 4 years to get a mare ready to breed, she is pregnant for about one year, they you wait 3 more years to see if the foal is going be any good. Total time 8 years, average cost per month per horse 100$ minimum, feed, vet, fencing, building etc. Oh yeah and there is the original cost of the mare, put what ever figure you want there, $3,500 to the sky is the limit. If someone spooks these high dollar hay burners with a 10,000,000 candle power light and they run through a fence or over a cut bank who pays? Around here the guy with the light does. I am very generous with my land, just about anyone who asks can walk around and take pictures, hunt birds in season etc. but I have in the past and I will in the future prosecute anyone scaring my livestock.
Dont you all think that is fair?
I do not think that I am paranoid at all, just protecting an investment that has taken me a lifetime to acquire.
Dont you all think that is fair?
I do not think that I am paranoid at all, just protecting an investment that has taken me a lifetime to acquire.
Rain,
I get what you are taking about and understand what you are saying. there was a thread on here ahile ago talking about a Golight?, it was a spot light that you mounted on your truck and it was remote ontrolled from the inside and could swivel around and move up and down, in case you saw something off to a side and could not swing your truck around. also i use a small camera off the back off my car hooked up to a small tv screen in the front because i think bf's might see the light comming from a distance and wait for them to pass and walk behind the car, so i have a little camera there just for that.
I get what you are taking about and understand what you are saying. there was a thread on here ahile ago talking about a Golight?, it was a spot light that you mounted on your truck and it was remote ontrolled from the inside and could swivel around and move up and down, in case you saw something off to a side and could not swing your truck around. also i use a small camera off the back off my car hooked up to a small tv screen in the front because i think bf's might see the light comming from a distance and wait for them to pass and walk behind the car, so i have a little camera there just for that.
Navy SEAL, you're entirely correct!
Well, as usual, I wrote a bunch of stuff and somehow erased it because it all disappeared. Just as well, 'cause I was being pissy... This is an annoying thread, and I'm pretty annoyed. :new_evil2:
:doh: You (personally) have a big investment in livestock, and some jerk can come along & do something thoughtless, and your animal & investiment goes down the tubes! And it's against the law, to boot, but they don't care!
The problem is that this light thing is nuts. These guys are just too lazy to get off their butts & actually walk out in the sticks to try to see what they want to see, find what they want to find, or even try.
Well, as usual, I wrote a bunch of stuff and somehow erased it because it all disappeared. Just as well, 'cause I was being pissy... This is an annoying thread, and I'm pretty annoyed. :new_evil2:
:doh: You (personally) have a big investment in livestock, and some jerk can come along & do something thoughtless, and your animal & investiment goes down the tubes! And it's against the law, to boot, but they don't care!
The problem is that this light thing is nuts. These guys are just too lazy to get off their butts & actually walk out in the sticks to try to see what they want to see, find what they want to find, or even try.
You all are a bunch of ass clowns sometimes, all rains is talking about is what type of lighting to use on your vechicle when you are out in the woods. I understand about the spotlighing thing and it is a good hint but come on! you all beat what ever any one says into the ground. he is talking about nothing more then some good lights to use and then it goes into him destroying animals and being to lazy to walk around. he said nothing about any of this. some of you your head is burried so far into a computer screen. :new_thumbsupsmileyanim:
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