Ya'll seem to be a pretty scholarly bunch, what camo should be used when hunting bats??

I believe I would try the landing net and ballbat approach... Why would someone want to hunt bats?

trapping is easier than hunting I would imagine. I've trapped them with my dad using nets, same nets they use for trapping birds. Now, the reason why I would trap them and birds with my dad was for scientific purposes; collecting specimens of different regions, and monitoring flight patterns with bands on their legs.

i just did a google search for mist nets and found this picture of some lady taking a bird off of one

http://www.biosphere-expeditions.org/images/ukraine/10Aug-anabela1.jpg

I used to shoot them in Stone fruit orchards for a friend of mine 12 gauge number 4 shot just on dusk was always fun and an air rifle for once they got in the nets

I would wear a BATSUIT with utility belt and sidekick named Robin............Forget that, I almost blew my cover.

They don't seem to mind if you don't use any camo at all. After all, they are blind as a bat. :D A 12 gauge with #8 shot works well, but dang those little buggers are hard to hit, especially right at dusk :D

I watched my father try that at the cabin. We were sealing off the nesting spot they had in the building. Just at dusk, 2 for 10 w/ his browing sweetsixteen auto 5; 7.5 shot his favorite upland load. I wouldn't even try, that gun was PART of him...

Wouldn't even bother -

Not much meat on 'um after dressing out! :D

Besides, illegal to mess with them here in Arizona.

As usual, I must be missing something because I don't get the punch line??

Dan

Leave th4em alone...if not, you'll just be over run by the insects they didn't eat.

Bats commonly carry rabies. Don't mess with them.

Dang guys, it wasn't a serious question. Thought it would offer a chance for some funny comebacks. I do know bats can see, but they are most active in the dark--- camo---dark, never mind. :rolleyes:

Dang guys, it wasn't a serious question. Thought it would offer a chance for some funny comebacks. I do know bats can see, but they are most active in the dark--- camo---dark, never mind. :rolleyes:

On a guess, a kind of fuzzy suit should make your sonar signal a little bit weaker...yeas they can see, but they don't need to...maybe a nice layer of foam?...some kind of sound- stealth?

Brother took me out the the front proch with one of those hig-freq. bug repellant boxes...doesn't seem to do much to mosquitos, but turn that thing on and ever moth on the porch hits the deck right now. Evidentlt he frequence is close enough to some type of bat that they all recognize it.

Bats commonly carry rabies. Don't mess with them.

Not quite true. Bats CAN carry rabies, but no more often than skunks, foxes, and coyotes. People are more likely to come in contact with a sick bat. People (usually children) find bats that are on the ground or roosting somewhere accesable, both things that sick bats commonly do.
Most bat species are protected species. Guys, I wouldn't recommend shooting them! hate to see anyone pay a big fine or jail time for killing a bat! Besides, all bat species in the US are extremely beneficial.

Some sort of spotlight with a bat silhouete (sic) brings them out. I understand various characters going by the names Joker, Riddler, Penguin, etc. have tried it with no success. As far as I remember they didn't wear camo though.

I look at bats this way ! Anything that eats any of these bugs that are aways bitting me is OK in my book ! JAGG

Dress up like Ozzy!!!

Since bats have very poor eyesight, and use sonar to "see" with you need a suit which is sonar absorbing, sort of a "stealth" suit. Get your heaviest winter goose down jacket, and pants, and wrap your feet in foam carpet padding along with your whole head making sure cut breathing holes, and eye holes. Wear your thickest winter gloves too. This "stealth suit" should absorb enough sonar sound from the bat making you invisible to him. You'll look like the Michelin Tire Man to eveyone else but main thing is you are invisible to the bats.