Trying to decide on which style of head lamp: the hard hat light, like Mud Buddy has in their catalogue, or the type in the airboat catalogue with no hat. There is also one in the airboat catalogue mounted on a bill cap.
The Mud Buddy is 90w and lists at around 90 to a hundred bucks. The Super Spot has 100w and one mile vis and lists at around $60, but is mounted on a"flexible plastic headset". The miner style also sells built into a cap, but it is 50w with a half-mile vis.
The Super Spot is stronger and cheaper than the HH, but how is it worn? Can you wear it with a bill cap, or do you have to wear a skull cap type hat? I need a hat because we hunt in the cold sometimes, and i do not have a lot of natural cover up there.
Any experiences with both? Recommendations? Suggestions?
Thanks.

I use the one mounted on the camo cap and really I really like it!!Light,bright as hell and shines a great spot I got the 100 watt!!Got it from here!

http://www.huntinglight.com/catalog/ult ... bb8f9d7b2f

anyone ever use that dimmer
Seems like a good idea

Thanks, J.W.. The other site I was looking at did not have the 100w ball cap - only 50. That looks like the ticket unless somebody knows of something better, or knows of some problems with the 100w cap.

They want almost as much for the dimmer as the hat. I bet there are some electrical gurus on here who know how to do that (dimmer) a lot cheaper.

You can go to any hardware store and get what you need to make these lights yourself and save you bout half the $. I made 2 last year for bout $60

Yea, right. Several trips to the hardware store, and about four hours of screwing around. I can make a lot more than $50 working four hours. If they don't do what I do, I won't make headlamps.

If you get everything you need the first time,theres no need to go back to the hardware store. Took me bout a hr and a half to make two,so i guess i wasnt screwin around and i wasnt makin them for anybody else but myself so i wasnt getting paid for it

No, Busta - I meant it would take me four hours and several trips to the store (25 miles away), not you.
Maybe after I built a couple hundred I could do it in an hour and a half (Not a sure thing, though. I ain't real handy ).

its all good. Ya never know ya could suprise yourself. Never know unless ya try

yall bring up a interesting point. im of the kind that will build something if i can save a few bucks. i never put a price on my time, because i normaly enjoy doing it. that being said by the time i do build it myself i could have bought it for not much more. i mean up front the parts seem to be cheaper but i seem to always need to buy a tool or something that drives up the price. in the past it was a good deal because i got what i wanted and a tool to keep.

my dad on the other hand has no mechanical ability. he buys everything. hes older and if he could build it he wouldnt want to waste his time. as i get older ive been less inclined to build and just buy. seems that up front i want to do it myself, but half way trough i loose intrest.

I believe, without any true expertise, but having lived a while, that it is how you are hard wired. Genetics. They are discovering more and more that genetics determines just about everything in behavior. My fishing partner is about fish like we are about ducks. I saw him catch a hundred yellow tail in Mexico, fishing for a member of a lobster/yellowtail canning co-op who he had on his boat on the Pacific side of the Baja. I catch four or five and I am looking around for something else to do. If you opened up his head a fish would jump out ... (and pussy). But he wouldn't walk across the street to get in a duck blind. If he gets in one, he starts looking at his watch and starts talking about fishing. Why? Is it genetic or did something happen when we were little kids that made us a duck person or a fish person, or is it genetics, like bird dogs looking in the sky at birds, lying next to cow dogs looking at cows.? Wish I was smarter.