Illegal Thermal Use

[bigsky2]

The FLIR system I got to play with 15 years ago was sensitive enough to see farts in the hangar and find recently disturbed earth from the air, and it was already 10 years old and considered nearly obsolete at the time.

Watching for farts in a busy public place would be too much fun.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

 

[INMT]

Hunttalk talking about that damn technology from their technology. Place gets more ridiculous all the time. Getting to be a tough place to hang out. Feel like I’m at the coffee shop with the old timers always pissing and moaning about something
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To each their own

 

[Deez Nutz]

Speaking of unkosher technological advances, I’m thinking of starting a door dash service for backcountry hunters. Inreach me an order and I’ll fly a hot pizza and buffalo wings into your backcountry camp and chuck it out the door with a small parachute. Now how much would you pay for that?

You think I’m joking.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

Dozen traditional extra crispy with that mango habanero? $27+$10 tip.

 

[BrentD]

The FLIR system I got to play with 15 years ago was sensitive enough to see farts in the hangar and find recently disturbed earth from the air, and it was already 10 years old and considered nearly obsolete at the time.

In the Old Guy Stories category, back in 1987, when I was a postdoc in Oslo, we got to see some video made with obsolete night surveillance gear that the Israeli military was peddling to biologists. We watched video of gerbils at over 40 meters, feeding on seeds under shrubs and grass and we could see their front toes on the seeds. It was unreal stuff, but it was obsolete to the point they were selling it to anyone that could pay (it may have been "obsolete" in their world, but it still was not affordable).

 

[Nick87]

Speaking of unkosher technological advances, I’m thinking of starting a door dash service for backcountry hunters. Inreach me an order and I’ll fly a hot pizza and buffalo wings into your backcountry camp and chuck it out the door with a small parachute. Now how much would you pay for that?

You think I’m joking.

Drone.

 

[devon deer]

Have you ever used a thermal for hunting?

@devon deer used one legally in England while I hunted with him. It turned my Swaro optics into useless glass. I stood and watched Richard thermal the surrounding areas. I’d used my glass to try to pick the deer out of the thickets after he found them with the thermal.

In the West, using a thermal to glass a ridge a few minutes will tell you if animals are in the basin. Game changer. There’s no reason to sit on a glassing point for a morning if ten minutes of thermal show no animals.

Thermals will increase kill percentages.

As you experienced with me @brymoore the thermal imager is a game changer for locating deer/vermin.
It does increase your success rate, but the difference being between where I live and where you live are poles apart.
No public hunting, all private here.
We are pickled in deer, anything that makes the culling of deer more efficient isn't frowned upon by the Government.
My thermal is a tool to get the job done, whilst I am a hunter (I think I proved that in Montana) in the main over here I am considered a culler.
The government even issued me a night licence to reduce the deer population in one of my areas, thermal coupled with a day/night vision scope helped a lot.
As you say, you pick a high vantage point, scan for maybe 2 miles, locate, then hunt.
So for me it's efficiency, locate, switch to binos, and either normal glass or day/night scope.
Deer go to either the game dealer, I sell them on, or eat the meat myself.
We are overrun with deer.