lamping techniques

[rotton123 7]

Any tips for using lamp just can't seem to get close enough.

[upperlane2 4]

switch it on and dont blind them

[dymented 2,220]

your better off using a dog to chase them bud on a windy night so they don't hear you coming

[Bosun11 537]

Think about the ground your on. Get yourself between the bunnys and where they live.

Pick the right night, windy, dark pref. (though as you improve this is not always the case).

Keep the wind in your face.

Walk a line (hedgerow) and lamp out into the field.

Scan the field with the lamp but dont attempt to over light it. Sweep toward the middle, you'll keep the lamp down that way.

Do you have a filter, these can be a great help in some areas?

Quickly pick the 'right' bunny (9 times out of 10, the furthest out).

Keep your beam on it and if your dog has seen it, slip.

This can be difficult with both a novice dog and lamper, especially with a filter. If this is the case, keep the beam on it and walk toward the rabbit. Even if it moves, keep that beam on it and don't slip till ya know that dog has seen it.

Get that filter off sharpish, if its still on, all the time keeping the beam on the moving bunny.

Do not be tempted to lamp back to see where the dog is... lamp the bunny always, beam in the eye!!

Enjoy..!!!!!!!!

[123456 146]

Great advice

[skycat 6,173]

I've often found that keeping the red filter on, and for a young dog when I have to walk out to the rabbit, keep the beam just in front of the rabbit: so you can just see its eye above the end of the beam: the less light on a rabbit if you have to walk out, the better. The same goes for sending the dog out, keep the beam just below the rabbit, then when the dog is almost there, move the beam up to light up the rabbit properly.

[wirral countryman 2,110]

Bosuns advice is good providing you have permission,if not its a different kettle of fish,when poaching you need the lamp on as little as poss:,flash the field and mark in your mind where the quarry is and switch off,walk up where you think it is and "bang" the lamp on,it should be there or there abouts,if it shows signs of running slip the dog as you should be on top of it,some will squat and will be picked up easilly,other's will dart about looking nervous but you should be assured of getting a run,if they look like getting in the hedgerow flick the lamp to make it look like flashy flickers,this will confuse most rabbits as to where they are in the field causing them to miss their run home,this makes them go up and down the hedge looking for a way out,this should give the dog enough time to make the catch providing it will hit the hedgrow,you must try to keep the wind in your face and plan your journey round the land you intend to hunt,other way's are walking up flashing the light on and off in the rabbits face confusing it to stay or run,they will normally sit tight giving you the time to get between them and home after that its normally all over,other quarry are a lot different,atb,WM

[Rabbiting man 1,191]

Dont do a Brian Plummer and lamp 3 feet from you cuz the cu*t was scared of the dark

[lurcher2020 285]

Bosuns advice is good providing you have permission,if not its a different kettle of fish,when poaching you need the lamp on as little as poss:,flash the field and mark in your mind where the quarry is and switch off,walk up where you think it is and "bang" the lamp on,it should be there or there abouts,if it shows signs of running slip the dog as you should be on top of it,some will squat and will be picked up easilly,other's will dart about looking nervous but you should be assured of getting a run,if they look like getting in the hedgerow flick the lamp to make it look like flashy flickers,this will confuse most rabbits as to where they are in the field causing them to miss their run home,this makes them go up and down the hedge looking for a way out,this should give the dog enough time to make the catch providing it will hit the hedgrow,you must try to keep the wind in your face and plan your journey round the land you intend to hunt,other way's are walking up flashing the light on and off in the rabbits face confusing it to stay or run,they will normally sit tight giving you the time to get between them and home after that its normally all over,other quarry are a lot different,atb,WM

Pish bout flicking light a rabbit runs on scent not sight so it knows where it's running

[Tyla 3,179]

Bosuns advice is good providing you have permission,if not its a different kettle of fish,when poaching you need the lamp on as little as poss:,flash the field and mark in your mind where the quarry is and switch off,walk up where you think it is and "bang" the lamp on,it should be there or there abouts,if it shows signs of running slip the dog as you should be on top of it,some will squat and will be picked up easilly,other's will dart about looking nervous but you should be assured of getting a run,if they look like getting in the hedgerow flick the lamp to make it look like flashy flickers,this will confuse most rabbits as to where they are in the field causing them to miss their run home,this makes them go up and down the hedge looking for a way out,this should give the dog enough time to make the catch providing it will hit the hedgrow,you must try to keep the wind in your face and plan your journey round the land you intend to hunt,other way's are walking up flashing the light on and off in the rabbits face confusing it to stay or run,they will normally sit tight giving you the time to get between them and home after that its normally all over,other quarry are a lot different,atb,WM

Pish bout flicking light a rabbit runs on scent not sight so it knows where it's running

 

Different strokes for different folks, i've always done it and it works for me. I think its the shadows flickering in the hedge that puts it off rather than not being able to see its way home though. Best advice is try everything your told and if it works keep doing it, if i dont then try something else. You'll soon work out your own system

Edited September 10, 2011 by Tyla

[hellyer189 93]

some good advice, i have always wondered about filters but were told there were shit but il take skycats advice anyday of the week, my dog has a good nose and when if turned of the lamp has picked up a few in the dark, not something i want him to do but still cant help but smile when he does

[paulus 26]

i always lamp with a filter until the final stage, ive got mine attached to the lamp via a length of cord so i can slip it off and it will drop below the lamp and i dont have to worry about loosing it.

[hunter89 3]

Bosuns advice is good providing you have permission,if not its a different kettle of fish,when poaching you need the lamp on as little as poss:,flash the field and mark in your mind where the quarry is and switch off,walk up where you think it is and "bang" the lamp on,it should be there or there abouts,if it shows signs of running slip the dog as you should be on top of it,some will squat and will be picked up easilly,other's will dart about looking nervous but you should be assured of getting a run,if they look like getting in the hedgerow flick the lamp to make it look like flashy flickers,this will confuse most rabbits as to where they are in the field causing them to miss their run home,this makes them go up and down the hedge looking for a way out,this should give the dog enough time to make the catch providing it will hit the hedgrow,you must try to keep the wind in your face and plan your journey round the land you intend to hunt,other way's are walking up flashing the light on and off in the rabbits face confusing it to stay or run,they will normally sit tight giving you the time to get between them and home after that its normally all over,other quarry are a lot different,atb,WM

Pish bout flicking light a rabbit runs on scent not sight so it knows where it's running

 

i'm sure the rabbit has loads of time to follow a scent with a dog up its backside

[tresspasser1 13]

Some dodgy lampers on here, turning the lamp off an walking into the field expecting the quarry to be still their. Lamping with no filter bloody hell. Whatever floats ya boat tho..

[sweeper1gg 4]

Some dodgy lampers on here, turning the lamp off an walking into the field expecting the quarry to be still their. Lamping with no filter bloody hell. Whatever floats ya boat tho..

your name says it all.