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Topic: Nighttime sillouhettes?
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Gerald Stewart
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posted September 11, 2005 10:37 AM
Leonard you made a good comment on another thread about not looking like people in your truck, at least I think it was you. You have your truck designed so that much of your body sillouhette(SP?) is not visible to the incoming coyote. I favor the height of standing up on the platform on my suburban. That puts me up in the 12 to 14 foot range for my light. I can not or do not want to have a frame or box to cover me or my shooters so I have considered using some of that 3-d camo to make myself less noticable to the coyote,
I called for two Outdoor Writers last year which sat on the top of my suburban for a daytime stand. One of them had a 3-d suit and the other had standard camo on. The one in the 3-d looked like a bush sitting on the top of my truck. The other looked like a human in camo sitting on my truck. The 3-d suit even minimized the visibility of minor movement. I am probably going to use my 3-d suit in my night calling routine and require that the shooters at least have some netting draped over their legs. Maybe even you could benefit from the top half of one of those suits?
I have relied on the fact that the light would inhibit the approaching coyotes ability to see us plainly. We have slain a bunch of coyotes that way but now I believe that an adjustment like that may help us get them in even closer. What do you think?
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Leonard
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posted September 11, 2005 12:24 PM
Well, we try to wear soft clothing in a dark color, or camo, any camo. And, we are very careful about the reflective light and try never to move when the light is anywhere close to pointed in our direction. See, the natural reaction of a shooter is to duck when the light rotates toward him. This makes matters much worse, as it is far better to "freeze" until the light passes or works back in the opposite direction. The light man needs to explain this to his shooter, ASAP. The light man needs to illuminate the area beyond the shooter. He cannot afford to ignore the segment beyond the shooter by cutting short his 360º sweep, and it is just as bad to raise the light to miss lighting him. Of course, it's better if he is not in the way, at all, but you have to do the best you can with what you have to work with.
Actually, I always wanted to ask you if you ever lost your ballance, or took a misstep and came close to falling off your platform?
Good hunting LB
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Gerald Stewart
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posted September 12, 2005 04:45 AM
Nope never lost anybody. I am asked a lot about why I have never put any kind of rail around the platform. I remember the rails that Dad would put around the platforms we used in the early days were fairly short. I came to feel that the rail gave people the false sense of security that it would help keep them from falling. I came to believe that I would use that feeling of insecurity to my advantage.
I tell people that it is easy to fall off if they are not careful. We go up one at a time and nobody starts up until the other is in place and sitting stable. I have had as many as 7 people up there and never lost one to losing their balance. Most will crawl until they get to the chair and then use it pull up and sit. We then hand up guns. The caller and light ride up there for the night. I stand in the middle of the two shooting chairs. It is a routine that works OK for us ....so far. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Because I am standing and the others are sitting, I have never been too concerned about the light striking them too much. It happens some but the height of the rig helps us to see at a better angle and don't seem to have too much trouble getting coyotes close enough to pop. I probably should pay more attention to their movement though. I generally will tell the shooters or observers to not follow the light and just let me alert them to an approaching animal but the temptation to watch the whole affair is too great for some and they spin their heads with me.
I will have that rig with me later this year and I will bring at least one chair so you can crawl up and get the perspective.
[ September 12, 2005, 04:47 AM: Message edited by: Gerald Stewart ]
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