Light from remote

[dale06]

How big of an issue is light from an e caller remote, in spooking coyotes. I presume one needs to shield that light from coyotes cause it will spook them. Besides the obvious of shading the light with your hand and putting the remote inside a jacket, are there any other techniques to avoid spooking coyotes with light from the remote?
Thanks

 

[flintrock]

I've got the brightness turned almost as low as it will go on both of mine and turned to red lettering. I've got a phone holder on the tripod and point the screen straight up in the air.

 

[Hecouldgoalltheway]

I try to operate mine mostly while inside my chest rig. I memorize where the key buttons are, and some of the sounds I want. If I need to see it, I look at it while inside my chest pack, make the changes and close the flap.

 

[hunt0168]

My remote gets tethered to my chest rig for walking, but I clip it to a loop of paracord on my tripod when setup and calling. Foxpro TX1000 remote. Screen and keypad brightness is as low as it goes. Set to red/nighttime mode. It gets laid face down in a tripod basket.

 

[limbhanger10]

I do the same with brightness and nightmode- and have timeout set for a few seconds. I have a piece of cloth taped to remote that is over screen so when they are close I can work remote without casting much light.

 

[jmeddy]

Do what has been stated above. I am asinine about all light management except I do almost always walk in with a red headlight cause falling down at my age can hurt and take a long time to heal!!

 

[DoubleUp]

If you need to make it darker you can add as much window tint as needed.

 

[SSPINate]

I like to keep the remote as dim as possible, Its connected by a lanyard to my chest pack. Once the coyote shows up i lower the remote and pursue the dog. I cant say i have ever had a dog flare due to the remote light.

 

[jmeddy]

Welcome to the forum sspinate

 

[SSPINate]

Welcome to the forum sspinate

Thank You! Im happy to be here! I Look forward to great conversations with you all!

 

[Joelwill]

I've never had an issue with the light affecting coyotes. If anything, the light that shines through your thermal or NV scope eyepiece would be worse.