Theres a lot of advice on using a red lens or red light at night so Your posistion can't be spotted at distance or for just enough light to move at night rather than white light . Anyone try this out ?
The red light will not throw a beam like a white light does, reflective qualities are substantially reduced, if I’m evading moving through forested area I would diffidently use a red lenses if left with no choice. Evading tactics in practically all manuals is ‘use no form of lights’ and that also means all filtered lights.
The flashlight should have about and inch and a half hood that protrudes from the lenses, on the old military angle light those can be easily extended with attachments such as the male/female coupler to extend it to 2” that’s what we used in the field.
That range you was fixing up in another post, place a red lens flashlight at the end of your range and point It to your shooting position and look, you will see what I’m talking about and then point it down 4 feet off the ground and see if you can see it, have someone with really good eye sight and adjust the lights hight until they can’t see it, old fashion filter flash light work better than LEDs or use multiple layers of the filter on the LED.
I've always thought red light was more a matter of not spoiling your night vision, as happens with white light. It also makes animals less likely to startle.
Apparently a red light will not light up a area like a white light will . Especially if you focus it into a beam .I am speculating here but I figure if a red light was visible to others it would attract the eye very quickly. People are attuned from early on that RED Lights represent some form of danger and your brain will pick it out very quickly.
Wow! What a great place to explore! That is a young boys paradise, and a parents worst nightmare... yup, I would probably have been lost in a lava tube and never heard from again as a teenager!Each areas around the Country have their own pit-falls, this being one of them around me.
Out here going into the forest at night can be dangerous even with a good light and even in day time and it is wise to have a good walking stick, going by red light or no light is almost idiocy.
Not only do you have to travel through unseen downed limbs you got to be worried about the lava beds that's covered with overgrown vegetation, the holes can drop 50' 100' or more into the lava tubes through a vertical shaft, if you survive the fall you would probably bleed out from the jagged wall of the shaft, cause trying to walk out of a good number of tubes ain't going to happen.
You will cross this, if you do this at night using only a red lens light and in a hurry, the photos below show the consequences, least were I am at. Hopefully the people pursuing me won't know the terrain.
Lava bed
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And this (growth over the other end of the lava bed)
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But under the vegetation is this (top)
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(bottom)
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That takes you to the tube (labyrinth)
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