Registered: Mar 2020
Location: E North Carolina
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WHO STILL HUNTS WITH THOSE OLD BOX LIGHTS ....


APACHE
RAW DOG
PROWLER
BLAZER
COON BUSTER
SUNBURST
BANDIT
CAJUN
SHOW ME...

I STILL GOT MY PROWLER PRO BUT DONT HOLD A CHARGE NO MORE..
THEM OLD LIGHTS WERE HEAVY SON!!

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Registered: Mar 2020
Location: E North Carolina
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I REMEMBER REAL OLD TIMERS TALKIN ABOUT THEM OLD LIGHTS THAT WOULD LEAK BATTERY ACID??!!

OR ARE YOU REAL OLD SCHOOL AND USED A LANTERN!

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Registered: Dec 2019
Location: Arkansas
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My first light was a Texas flashlight it was shiny metal hand held flashlight that held about 8 D batteries. Then I got me a nite lite box light and hunted with it from 1985 to 2001 all I ever did was upgrade the head that battery lasted a good long time. A guy I hunt with still uses a Wicks box light it has glitter all over it. He said he don't remember when he bought it but it's maybe 30 years old. If anyone remembers when wick was selling them lights I would like to know.

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Registered: Feb 2015
Location: NW Arkansas
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My first light was q small carbide in the late 50's. My dad used a larger one and carried a D cell light to shine the tree.Now I use a Sunspot that I really like. Sure would like to go back and hunt with my Dad again but sure wouldn't want to go back to carbide lights/

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I googled the Texas flashlight said they built them starting in 1970 and held 7 batteries I got mine around 1977 couldn't find anything on the Wick light.

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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: mark center ohio
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Wick light was made by blazer

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Registered: Mar 2020
Location: E North Carolina
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Crazy them old lights still work...

Yeah i remember the wick lights they were brown and had a gold glitter decal that said wick if i remember correctly

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I always liked the Cajun Rambo back in the day

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Location: Arkansas
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I had the bright idea to build me a spot light one time. Dad had a old spot light head for frog gigging and I took the battery out of the lawnmower unknowingly to dad built me a box for the battery and was up and running. Well after about 30 minutes of walking with that thing hanging off me I decided it was a bad idea especially when I probably didn't weigh 110 pounds back then . So the battery went back in the lawnmower and the light back in the boat. Dad is almost 80 and I would be in trouble if he found out what I did

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Registered: Feb 2015
Location: NW Arkansas
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My first "good" light was the Dynalite that Bill Boatman sold. Pretty bright but heavy with a motorcycle battery.

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The Texas light had a screw on extension to go from 7 to 8 cells. Also raw hide shoulder strap. You were styling with the Texan, but Boatman changed it all with his dynalite.

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Registered: Dec 2019
Location: Arkansas
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A Texas flashlight a single shot target master with three.22 shells that's all dad would let me have at a time and 3 mutt dogs and I was up and hunting. And parents that would let a ten year kid run around in the woods all night by himself. Can't remember ever being lost. And skinning them possums when I got home if I got a coon I would wake the whole house up showing it off needless to say I was the only one impressed at my triumph. Things have changed now I have the best of everything now but it just seems like I had more fun then. And I stay lost without my garmin now. And if I only tree 2 coons a night I wonder about how sorry my dogs are. Wished I was hunting with that Texas flashlight and 3 mutts and be 10 years old again

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Registered: Apr 2015
Location: church hill tn
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I think we ALL would like to go back to our younger days when small things seemed so big in our eyes. Age has a way of making us appreciate those days when LIFE was so much more simple. Happy hunting. Dave

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Location: Kentucky
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I would still be considered a young buck at 33 but I've been playing this game since dad 1st carried me into ole Tom on his shoulders.
My first light was a 6 volt night light. Carried that for years. Then there was a guy name Harold Moore here in KY building a light. Called it "the moore light". It was a real light. Then somewhere along the way dad won a few bandits. Those were great too. We ended up rotating them around until we quit several years ago. When I got started back two years ago I had to get educated on all this new fancy equipment, including the LED lights. Last tracker I had was a beep beep wildlife lol.
I remember the wick lights being available to buy in the late 90's and early 2000's. Brown with a gold and glitter sticker that said wick. Two guys at our local club each bought a new one. The weight resembled a boat anchor. Never could figure why they didn't get a bandit. Lol they were cutting edge at that time.

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I still use my 17 year old Cajun Stinger light when I nighttime fish. Everything original except the bulb.

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Originally posted by Dave Richards
I think we ALL would like to go back to our younger days when small things seemed so big in our eyes. Age has a way of making us appreciate those days when LIFE was so much more simple. Happy hunting. Dave

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Location: Ohio
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I really hated that stiff cord on the back of my neck that ran between the battery and the headlight. Thought the hardhat was useless until the night I fell head first into a washout and landed head first on the rocks. That can happen when you walk without your light on. That old red hardhat kept me from getting stitches in my head. I think I will fire up the dad's old kerosene lantern some night just for the memories.

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Location: Arkansas
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Thinking about them old lights sure got me thinking about old times tonight. I like the equipment we have now of days. I miss the land we could hunt more than anything. Hardwoods for miles and miles and no posted signs. Wished I had the dogs I got now back then I would have been something. But I can remember every coon them mutts treed (which wasn't many) back when I was a kid and them dogs never even brushed up to a hound. I can't remember how many I treed last week now. Funny how things stick in your mind. Hadn't thought about old times for a while. We having storms tonight and the electricity is out so maybe that's it.

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The Big light that had the white spot and red blinking in the rear, also have a shock collar I made in the 50’s.
A Model A coil and a 9 volt battery
Had to run a cord to the collar so you had to keep them on a lead, but it broke some hard headed hounds in its day.
Still have my Wheat Light less the battery

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Carried two 2 cell flashlights then went to the rayovac head with a motorcycle battery. My first factory built light was a nite light hot light boy I was uptown then lol.


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Went from a 2 cell to a wheat light in the 70's

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The Big light that had the white spot and red blinking in the rear, also have a shock collar I made in the 50’s.
A Model A coil and a 9 volt battery
Had to run a cord to the collar so you had to keep them on a lead, but it broke some hard headed hounds in its day.
Still have my Wheat Light less the battery

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Registered: Jan 2015
Location: Indiana
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I still have a bandit box ligbt that still works.
Had Basil set it up to give me 20 volt to spot light plug
In. Man did it seem bright back in the day.

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Blue or red plastic rayovac , held 2 d batteries. Upgraded to a 6 volt square battery in rayovac . Had a fish stringer tied to that light to hang it around my neck. Used it to shine trees only. Didn’t need a tracking system, dogs hunt d as we moved along. Them type dogs are considered culls these days. We knew where coon should be , they treed them. Occasional skunk or possum. Things were simple back then, miss it a lot.

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Registered: May 2006
Location: Livingston, WI
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What about the old wheat lights or hot lights? That's all I used from the mid 80's till about 11 when I got my torch pro. I still have a hot light for a backup. I rarely use it since my torch pro is so reliable.

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