http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/t...parentType=index&indexId=cat600363&hasJS=truehay guys i am new to the forum. and i was looking at these primos spotlights what do u guys think of them. any reviews.
Welcome to the forum. Personally I don't use them and don't have any experience with it. However I have a friend that has one and his advice to me was not to waste my money. I'm sure someone with first hand knowledge will hop on here and give you some feedback on it.
i personally dont feel any need for one, but i have never actually had one so i cant really say either. i think the only effective time you can use them tho is at night....which doestn really help you out if you shoot a deer in the afternoon, unless your willing to wait for dark. But who knows it could be a great investment tho too and yes welcome to the forum shrek, its a awesome sight full of great guys talking nothing but bowhunting!!!
I have one (Not the Primos) but another brand and they don't work any better than a reg flashlight. All it does is make the blood look "WET" if you know what I mean, it just puts a little shine on it, but none that I have used have ever made the blood stand out. Just my .02
When I have trouble finding the blood trail I will follow the path that I saw the deer run until I find the trail but if I'm having trouble I will start at the last location I saw the deer and will zig zag until I find a trail. If all else fails I call in reinforcements. I've got plenty of buddies around that would come help me track a deer if I needed the help.
I am a primos fanboy and I own the light...do not buy one. I tried to use it on several deer we already found last year and it was almost useless. In a cutover it was useless. Get a coleman lantern, put aluminum foil half way around (to avoid the light blinding you)and follow the blood. Only product I have ever been dissapointed in by Primos.
I have the smaller version of the bloodhunter. I like the primos guys, there videos, there bowsling etc. But mine is complete garbage for blood. I double lunged a buck last year and got down. I heard the deer run off a short ways then silence. Clean passthrough and a dirty motor oil looking substance with the primos light. I walked 10 yards and saw good blood splatter everywhere. The color looked awful, no smell, and I have never gut shot one. We also had a 6 inches of water everywhere. I didnt know if it was liver, guts, lungs, mud. I was confused. I went 20 yards with great blood, I stopped and shined ahead for a dead body, but wanted to go back and get a normal light because I wasnt 100 percent sure. I hung a marker in the tree. Got back to the truck and realized I had perfect lung blood all over my hands and the arrow was covered in blood. Went back with my dad and showed him the hit, the marker, and put my normal 5 dollar flash light up and my buck was 15 yards in front of me. I use that light for walked in and out. But for blood trailing, sorry its junk.
Never heard anybody say the lights worked. I got some of this Bluestar forensic blood tracker for that situation. http://www.bluestar-hunting.com/
im colorblind so i bought one thinking that it might help...it didnt. i always thought that it didnt work because i was colorblind but its kind of good to know that im not the only one
I posted a thread about the Remington the other day. http://forums.bowhunting.com/showthread.php?26917-Remington-Blood-Tracker-flashlight-headlamp Anybody used it? Is it any better or worse than the Primo?
They really dont work. Since Primos got so big they have been really turning out some garbage. I have quit buying anything with the Primos label on it. I have had problems with the last 3 or 4 thinngs I bought......slate call striker that didnt work, blind (not cheap) that the hubs broke on, trigger stick that worked exactly one time......I am done. Now they sell synthetic deer poop......wow! They are taking advantage of alot of hunters.
The absolute BEST light you can use for blood trailing is a coleman lantern! I fixed a shield on the backside of it so that it cannot shine in my face, only forward. Makes blood jump off the ground!
This is why I opened the thread. I'm also color blind (red-green) and can only find the blood trail after a buddy points it out to me. Even then I'm only used as "marker" for the last blood spot until the next one is found because my eyes are worthless out there. I was wondering about a product like this in the future, but I am still hesitant and this is why I won't hunt alone. Thanks for the thread and all the input. That forensics product looks the most solid because if the Primos light only makes it look wet, it doesn't matter. Red is still red. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
