Lamps Of Yesteryear

[micky 3,325]

I think that picture was taken 40 years ago ,there is a plant pot taped the lamp which came off of a reliant robin ,the battery came off of a motor bike , we killed a lot of rabbits that night and there are some other pictures somewhere and yes I was a porn star

[blackworm 58]

 

Blue eye lamps where great,nice tight beam,remember once when my yuasa battery packed in,so walked back to the mk1 escort van and took the battery off,put it in a rucksack and carried on,them where the days!!

Did it start when you put it back on? I started with the square plastic thing from the local car spares, and a 12 v motorbike battery, not great but it worked, then I got a job in a place that had one or two sealed alarm batteries knocking about no more holes in my coat or jeans, well not fro acid anyway, as one bloke said earlier I remember getting the lazerlight from Johnson fieldsports, that really did transform things for me, nowadays use the smaller lighter shooterlight.

 

I knew it wouldnt,so walked home,put the battery on charge and took it on the bike next day,lol..Forgot,it wasnt the escort van,it was a bedford ha

[forest of dean redneck 11,563]

First lamping set was burglar alarm back up battery bought off a stall for a fiver at Brockenhurst lurcher terrier ferret show in early 90,s fag lighter wired to it,lamp was a small black square plastic job already wired for a car's fag lighter with a plastic clip on lenses cover to protect glass when not in use.it cost 2 quid from a salvation army charity shop.

Oh an think I still got lamp in the shed somewhere lol

[C Hall 552]

50,000cp car inspection lamp, blue eye 200 000 cp, coleman 1million then onto lightforce lamps in the mid 90s.

 

Motor bike batterys acid type then onto sealed acid I still have not converted to lithium there to expensive

[darbo 4,774]

a lamp kit by kings used to advertise them in the shooting news mid 80s.

[paulf 820]

50,000cp car inspection lamp, blue eye 200 000 cp, coleman 1million then onto lightforce lamps in the mid 90s.

 

Motor bike batterys acid type then onto sealed acid I still have not converted to lithium there to expensive

im the same with my battery ,still on the sealed ones ...I do fancy getting a lithium but it seems a lot of money to be throwing in the hedge when it gets on top

[simonrocco 175]

i used to use a hella 2000 spotlight rigged up out of a brush handle doorbell and tape till my dad got hold of it and bolted it all together also used a stag motorbike battery with it i used to walk for miles with that heavy set up. i think iv still got the lamp somewhere im using a lightforce lamp now with a lithium battery. atb

[morton 5,368]

What lamps was you using back in the late 70s early 80s?

The first time I went lamping' way back in 1979, my friend was using a made

Up lamp on a bit of old broomstick as the handle, an old car headlight and a doorbell

Pusher as the on off switch. We lamped the local golf course and the bitch caught 3 rabbits.

From that day forward I was hooked, but was not allowed to have my own dog till I was about 16. But looking back over the years, and what with all the different types of lamps we used then, up to today's lamps we use now. Lamps like the square brinkman quartz halogen 50.000 cp , but even just at that power it got quite a few bunny stews on the go.

Do you remeber lamps called the q beam, or the blue max the black max, and what a lamp the nite tracker was with the pistol trigger which was made by khoeler I think bright star, and another one was the blue spot, what was your favorite. If only we could go back, great times for me, and probably a lot of the lampers on the hunting life. PS happy lamping cheers.

Wipac,lens taken out,cut down bean tin taped in the middle,best lamp ive ever used,ive had plenty of modern ones but none with a tighter and longer beam,just can,t find the motors with them on now.

[boyo 1,398]

lr6s and lr9s put a lot of game down with them first mass produced i bought was the blue spot supposed to shine through the fog lieing b*****ds lol. tbh no better than the ones we made plus they were a lot heavier and the home made ones didnt cost anything to make other than sore knuckles getting them of the front bumper of cars lol. good times looking back .

[Magwitch 687]

I had an old coleman, good lamp.........

[staffs riffraff 1,068]

Still use a Coleman as my tracer 210 reflector paint peeled off b***%*d lol so if anyone got any tracer head I buy it lol

[Bosun11 537]

 

After car spotties with motorbike batteries (tin can cowl an a ton of tape), we got a 'Clear Eye' then a 'Blue Eye'.

 

The hunt was always on for decent army bags too, those batteries seen a lot of good bags an good coats off...

they were a good lamp those blue eyes ..once we moved onto the motor bike battery we found the best battery carriers were a gallon plastic jack cut the top of put some BT rope in for a carrying strap and pack the sides with card or paper and use grey gas tape to hold it in .the acid still got all over the back of what ever you was wearing though

 

We must have had exactly the same carriers then too Brookie, as thats what we did with the same gallon jacks. If we touched lucky, old seat belt instead of rope.

[Rhino stopper 1]

Lucas lr9 and Lucas or14 were the best then, now they look like shining a candle in a jar

[cocker 2,654]

home made ones out of a round car spotlight and broom stick with doorbell switch, home made ones with that square lhalogen lamp from car shops, then blue eye black eye and night owl,

[forest of dean redneck 11,563]

Also had some American style handheld bought secondhand.that only lasted half hour ,and a million candlepower fag lighter job that's was £20 from a car shop.