i started in my backyard as a kid and slowly worked my way up to minimalist hiking overnight. i was always building "forts" and the like with my brother when we were kids and i guess i never grew out of it . trust me dont stray to far from the truck if your inexperienced ,might find yourself in one of those "character building experiences". keep it within a half mile outa do depending on the weather that is .
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planning a survival practice night out
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Back in the day when I was in the Army (ok, another BS war story from an old fart)...back in the day, kiddiwinks, we used to run a red light tent for night vision enhacement before we went out stumbling through the pots and pans. The idea was to get the rods in our retinas...those things inside your eyeballs...prepped for seeing in the dark. I don't know what the Army does today, but when I play night games I like to get some red tail-light repair tape from the auto shop and put that over the lens of my super-dooper mag lite. That red light lets me see where I have to go, but it doesn't shine all over the landscape, scaring bears and coyotes. Just my .02
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Back in the day when I was in the Army (ok, another BS war story from an old fart)...back in the day, kiddiwinks, we used to run a red light tent for night vision enhacement before we went out stumbling through the pots and pans. The idea was to get the rods in our retinas...those things inside your eyeballs...prepped for seeing in the dark. I don't know what the Army does today, but when I play war games I like to get some red tail-light repair tape from the auto shop and put that over the lens of my super-dooper mag lite. That red light lets me see where I have to go, but it doesn't shine all over the landscape, scaring bears and coyotes. Just my .02
Coldwood, thats exactly what we do when playing paintball at night.
No white flashlites.
Mini-Maglites makes a red filter, or, like you said, that red translucent repair tape. Allows you to maintain your "natural" night vision. one flash of a white light and it can take 15 or 20 mins to get your natural vision back correctly.
Nowadays (my buddy is recent USMC) they all have NVGs, real good ones.
They all have those on, and if there are any vehicles around they all have IR spotlights. I think it looks like some glowing LSD-induced battlefield.
No white flashlites.
Mini-Maglites makes a red filter, or, like you said, that red translucent repair tape. Allows you to maintain your "natural" night vision. one flash of a white light and it can take 15 or 20 mins to get your natural vision back correctly.
Nowadays (my buddy is recent USMC) they all have NVGs, real good ones.
They all have those on, and if there are any vehicles around they all have IR spotlights. I think it looks like some glowing LSD-induced battlefield.
