As tech hits the lamping market, the fox and rabbitshooters who prefer lamping to night vision and thermal now attach torches to their scopes. You find your animal with a handheld torch, and you quickly acquire it in your scope with your rifle-mounted torch.
While handheld lamps are still narrow in beam compared to ordinary household lamps, the torches on rifles are focusable and have super-narrow beams that throw light hundreds of metres
Here are four you can try:
Top of the range is the Olight Warrior X, which claims to throw light out to 1,000 metres. It is available from Amazon.
1,100 lumens
Price around £140
A smaller, handy model, but no less powerful, for the Thrunite T2 torch, visit Amzn.to/33yT2ZD – special offer until 23 September 2020 – enter the word FIELDSPORTS at checkout for a 15% discount
3,757 lumens
Price around £80
Viking Arms imports the Streamlight range of lamps, including the Streamlight TLR-1 Game Spotter, available on Amazon
150 lumens
Price around £140
Tom from Co Louth recommends the Led Lenser i18r torch, which he uses. You can buy it from Amazon
Price around £225
Full disclosure
Fieldsports Channel supporter Tom from Co Fermanagh in Northern Ireland imports Olight torches. It’s a range of lamps from scopemounted to handheld to headmounted. You can view the range on Amazon here or at Olightstore.uk.
Taclight has been a Fieldsports Channel sponsor in the past.
Thrunite donated a T2 torch to give away in a competition to the Fieldsports Nation. Charlie Jacoby tries out the Thrunite T2 torch in this film:
