GAOS 2020

Joe Zaffuto

Night Eyes Predator Lights


Joe Zaffuto was born and raised in a small town in Central Pennsylvania where he tried his hand at night calling at a very young age. He was only 14 when he called in and killed his first grey fox. From that point on he was hooked and now 40 plus years later he still targets predators willing to come to the call with their eyes glowing from his now “much better” red lights – still feeling that same passion he felt back then. Although he has upgraded his hunting equipment and changed his style, the concept is still basically the same. In 2012, Joe started his own predator light company Night Eyes, LLC. Several years after starting his company Joe retired from a 28-year career in Law Enforcement where he was a certified firearms instructor. He has given seminars on calling predators at night throughout the northeast United States and has written articles for Fur-Fish-Game, Gun Trade World and Woods & Water magazines. Joe has been featured on five TV episodes that aired on the Pursuit Channel. In one of his last episodes Joe and his partner killed 18 predators in three nights of filming. Joe finds coyotes are much more challenging to call in than fox and feels every coyote called in and killed is a trophy. Since the start of his company, Joe has called in and killed hundreds of fox and coyotes while using his Night Eyes Hunting Lights with the majority of them being in the state of Pennsylvania. Joe says: “The ever-wise coyote is without question an excellent teacher and he is still teaching me even today.” Joe is always willing to provide hunting strategies to those who are willing to listen. He feels very privileged to have been instrumental in helping get thousands of new hunters started into the night hunting sport and he loves to hear their success stories that follow. Night hunting still calls to Joe as strongly today as it did on that first fateful night-time fox hunt, many years ago.

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