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I'm very lucky to have a lot of rabbits on my permission and I've been catching decent numbers, but as the season progresses, it's getting harder. Rabbits scattering as soon as the lamp is on.

Any tips on how to approach this?Thermal is too expensive and I can't put filters on my lamp. Would a small led torch or headlamp be useful for picking out the eyes to find them and then switch to the lamp for running them?

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24 minutes ago, Attaboy said:

I'm very lucky to have a lot of rabbits on my permission and I've been catching decent numbers, but as the season progresses, it's getting harder. Rabbits scattering as soon as the lamp is on.

Any tips on how to approach this?Thermal is too expensive and I can't put filters on my lamp. Would a small led torch or headlamp be useful for picking out the eyes to find them and then switch to the lamp for running them?

Go when it's well windy apart from that not much 

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7 minutes ago, Black neck said:

Go when it's well windy apart from that not much 

That certainly helped last night when the wind picked up around midnight. The driving rain may have been a factor as well, literally soaked to the skin.

Think the beam on my lamp may be too wide, scaring them in the next field. Just learning!

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1 minute ago, Attaboy said:

That certainly helped last night when the wind picked up around midnight. The driving rain may have been a factor as well, literally soaked to the skin.

Think the beam on my lamp may be too wide, scaring them in the next field. Just learning!

Tbh mate it's probably just that they seen some lamp now and know it means trouble there not daft 

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Just now, Black neck said:

Tbh mate it's probably just that they seen some lamp now and know it means trouble there not daft 

Mind you, one of them loved the lamp last night, ran straight at my waiting boot?. The dog didn't really know what to make of that!

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35 minutes ago, Attaboy said:

That certainly helped last night when the wind picked up around midnight. The driving rain may have been a factor as well, literally soaked to the skin.

Think the beam on my lamp may be too wide, scaring them in the next field. Just learning!

I've.got a nice tight lamp I'll come and see if that helps with the bunnys it's no problem I'll even bring the dog along ??

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Just now, Attaboy said:

Struggling for numbers where you are?

Yeah and most the land I have is shooting land aswell so they just knock them over with there night vision stuff that's at land drake and got abit in ivybridge to but nothing in grate numbers there either. Your lucky to have numbers to go at really I've sort of called my season off to be honest to try and keep some numbers around 

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I agree with d lloyd if you know the land well enough try and sneak in with no light get yourself roughly where you think they will try and run to then flick the lamp on like he said makes it harder for them to get home. Also have you tried shaking the lamp as they get close to the burry this sometimes dazzles them and confuse them and they will sometimes decide to run along the hedge giving your dog a chance to turn it back out into the field 

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1 hour ago, Attaboy said:

I'm very lucky to have a lot of rabbits on my permission and I've been catching decent numbers, but as the season progresses, it's getting harder. Rabbits scattering as soon as the lamp is on.

Any tips on how to approach this?Thermal is too expensive and I can't put filters on my lamp. Would a small led torch or headlamp be useful for picking out the eyes to find them and then switch to the lamp for running them?

Have you got a dimmer on the lamp 

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