Tippa

Alibabah is just a site that links you to overseas manufacturers and wholesalers from what i've seen. I've never had any luck with them at all.... Not one message sent to a company has made it to them- I always get replies from some othjer mob in China showing me what they have, not what i queried about.

Makes sense mate. The specs on my little 220L MT7 say it throws a beam out to 255m (because it does focus down to a small spot which is all i need while looking through the scope) and I have shot a number of foxes at around 200m which is the limit for my area. However at 200m it is a case of shooting between the lit-up eyes with a very dim body. Looking at different torch's specs, it seems there arent that many that can throw light out further than say 300m. They have bulk lumen output, which must light up the area around the target a little more, but is that beneficial when looking through a scope? I would hate to spend another decent sum of money to upgrade and all i get is more grassland lit up around the target... but i would like one to light up the object a little more at 200-250m. Edit: Just on the subject of batteries, I popped open my super dooper 1000Lumen Hong Kong special and it has the 18650 rechargeable battery in it. So the MT7 being a much smaller torch, with 4 AAA batteries and 1/4 of the supposed light output, outperforms it convincingly. I am certain you just can't go of specs , numbers and figures. There is a lot more to an LED torch than advertised numbers it seems. Reading the Solarforce website, it says some can get hot to touch. Do they have a 24 carat gold heat sink aswell?

Fenring do you have any experience with LED Lensers? If so, what LED torch would you recommend, in any brand, that would be the next step up from my 220L MT7 while being the same size? The MT7 is great, but i know there will be plenty better out there now

Lumens are how much total visible light an LED puts out. But I'm pretty warey on lumens claims... It's not just how many lumens a torch has, it's also the quality of the lense and also the heatsink behind the LED. My 220 Lumen LED Lenser oushines my 1000 Lumen Hong Kong $12 special convincingly. Plus the cheapy has not one "halo" around irt's light but two of them- meaning the chip is rubbish i'm told. Plus you cant focus it down to a nice small spotlight- it becomes square and then you can see the outline and lines inside the LED chip shining out in the paddock. Hopeless. So lumens 'aint lumens.

Hi, I'm from the NSW south coast. Started off as a kid with an air rifle and 30yrs later still have it, along with a Brno Model 1 22lr, two Winchester model 370 12g shotguns and a new CZ .223 with a Leopold 3-9x50 VX2 and Led Lenzer mounted light. I mainly used the shotguns for Indian Mynahs on our property and the .223 for spotlighting all of the foxes that try to get to our chooks and ducks on our property and friend's properties. Found it to be a really effective setup. I hope to learn more tricks about fox hunting including calling foxes in during different seasons. Cheers!