Hi all,
A friend of mine told me that pigs don't see the colour red particularly well. Is this True? He said that if I place a piece of red plastic over the lens of my flashlight, making the light that it shines red, the pigs wont be able to see the light and won't be spooked by it (assuming obviously that I'm hunting in darkness). I am new to hunting and have limited experience so if this is an old 'wives tale', or alternatively a widely know pig hunting fact, please excuse my ignorance. Either way, would someone be so kind as to set me straight on this 'colour blind pig' theory.

Thank-you for your time

Happy hunting

Cameron

I never asked one!

Sorry, I always take the cheap shots!
I honestly have absolutely no idea.

Don

Cameron,
Don't know about pigs but bobcats, coyotes, and deer are much less bothered by red light than white. I've been using a red lense on my spotlight to hunt varmints for over 30 years. And no, I don't shoot deer using the light, just see a lot of them.

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Ignorance is curable, but stupidity is terminal.

At last something I know something about. In my area of Central Texas hogs almost never come out in the day, at least on my territory. They are often hunted at night from blinds. I use a night vision devise to watch the area around the blind. When hogs appear and are in shooting range I turn on a small red spotlight attached to the top of my scope with a small rechargable battery attached to my belt. ( I got mine from Cabela's) It has an on-off switch which you mount on the forearm.
I can verify, from personal experience that the hogs pay absoutely no attention, what so ever, to the red light.
Others perfer a more permanent solution, but vastly more trouble. A red flood light is positioned to light the area. A rheostat is used to turn the light intensity down to where you can just barely make out anything. When hogs appear, the light can be slowly adjusted up to provide shooting light. In my experience, the hogs don't mind even the full intensity ( although it only has about a 50-75 yrd effective range) of my spotlight.
I have not had a deer come within range so I can't personally vouch for their sensitivity to the red light. However, I can tell you that Racoons run like Hell the instant you turn it on.