I am going to run up to Conroe and pick up an Elusive Wildlife XLR 250 kill light. My question, what is the best color to get green or red? Thanks.

Rumor has it that green works better for hogs and red for predators like coyotes. I used a green light last year for my youngest to take a pig and they didn't spook, and my solar lights are green and they seem okay with them.

I have not tried either color with coyotes or bobcats.

How is the solar set up working?

Edit: This is the set up I got, but I have not tried the red or mounted it on a rifle, just used it in green and hand held.

I use the green in that model, and it generally does not spook them. But there have been a couple of rogue boars that I took that ran at the light. Of course, both caught the brunt of it in the face from about 155-160 yards. Neither did a full-out run, and by swinging the light ahead of them and allowing them to saunter back into the beam, I was able to take both.

I had good luck with red for hogs several years ago. I added a green LED about the time we lost the TX lease, and so never tried it on hogs. I did use it just a few weeks ago on a coyote because the scope I used has red illuminated crosshairs. He came straight in to 62 yards to get shot, even when I had him centered in the brightest part of the beam.

Mine came with all 3 colors but I just use the green. Havent killed a hog with it yet.

I also have some motion sensor hog lights...the
blind-sider models, and they are green...my trail cameras indicate that the hogs pretty much ignore the green light, at least on our property.

I see best with a green LED but in my early experience with hogs we learned that if you're shooting over a captive brood and they see green enough times they haul ass before you can get a clean shot. We didn't have cool LEDs back then but we had colored covers and we rotated them out (green, red, blue and none)to keep the hogs as dumb as we could for as long as we could.

I ended up going with the green. The fellow at Elusive Wildlife was not surprisingly very helpful. For what it is worth, his feedback was that for hogs in the east or central Texas region, green is preferable. For hogs in west Texas as well as coyotes and bobcats, red is preferable. Apparently coyotes in particular are much more sensitive to the shadows created with green lights. For raccoons, possums and the the like, his view was that red or green, did not really matter. As Harry noted, he also pointed out that most people have a much easier time seeing with the green light versus red.

Where I hunt hogs the most, urban areas south of Dallas and 40 miles south of Childress Green is much more likely to spook the hogs you light up than red. Yes you can see farther with green but to me your twice as likely to spook hogs with green.

I started using the Q beam with a red cover years ago, never saw any reason to change, it works on Coyotes, Bobcats, on rare occasion a Lion, yanero foxes, ringtails, Red Foxes, deer walk right up to the pickup. Idaho is strict on calling at night and you can't call where deer are known to habitat, and that's all of Idaho, so whats that about I have no idea..Did all my calling in the Texas Big Bend country..actually had no idea that folks used green or any other color. I know neutral spot lights will run preditors, Javalina off sometimes.

Even had a hawk land on my head, scared the crap out of me..Had a Stetson on and only got some small holes in my head..I killed the hawk by grabbing his feet and fed him to to side rails of the pickup about half a dozen times..

We would drive the truck to a pointed hill for coyotes and in a brushy draw for bobcats and foxes, put the caset on a pillow on the top of the pickup and turn it on. Had wood side rails or metal to break up our profile..one guy had a shotgun with BB shot, the other a varmint rifle such as a 222 with a scope..Worked like a charm.

I also has a call attached to the ranch truck battery and bolted to a protected cover on the outside of the truck..Sometime would turn it on while waiting on cows to come to feed or whatever I was doing during the day...It worked fairly well..Back then Bobcats got me $600, coyotes got $125 to 150, Foxes $35 as I recall, Ringtails $7.50, but we had lots of them.

From the hunt report I posted recently, I noticed that the hogs could see something about the green light....

But the red spotlight on them had no issues and they didnt know we were looking at them