Alleycat72

I'm finding myself in need of comms. The Walker version has some bad reviews. What else is out there that's not crazy expensive?

Most of the big places are online. You can rent NV or Thermal from some of them. It's expensive, but it'll let you know if this is your new addition.

One thing you have do is qualify your question also. If you're hunting for one hog, most anything works. If you're eradication hunting, grandpa's old 30-30 will be less than ideal. Guys get all kinds of contradictory information because the people they are asking hunt hogs different.

We recovered 33 hogs the other night. One guy was shooting green tips and doing well.

33 for the night. Going to bed now. LOL

Not any of the other 2 things.

Funny story. I've worked a job for years that's gotten me used to working long and odd hours at a moments notice. My buddy is in the same business as I am, so he gets it. After I've been up for around 48 hours, I know I'm on borrowed time. So this one time we took two guy, but had to come back without sleeping. The idea was we'd share the driving. Someone asked me if I was okay at some point and I told them "Yes,....when I start seeing things that aren't there, I know I've got 30 minutes before I shut down." I don't think that's what they wanted to hear. LOL. I ended up sleeping about an hour on the way back that time. I'll get 6h both ways this time.

I have a MSR 10 in 308 that is my primary gun. An Aero AR 10 as backup. N-vision nox 35mm scope, Silencerco radius LRF, and a Q suppessor. We keep one spare thermal for scanning and if we have a scope failure. I have seen dropped guns and guys hit the ground hard at night while walking. My buddy usually runs a 338 federal, but he's taking his V7 308 this time.

LOL I never hunt at night alone. Kind of a safety rule for us. My hunting partner always goes and most of the time we take someone with us. This time I will be relieved of my driving duties. That was part of the deal if we were going this time.

So I've lost my mind. Going to work tonight at 10:00. Getting off at 6:00 Friday morning and heading to Texas. Hunting pigs starting at 7:30 Friday night. Driving back Saturday morning. Should arrive back at work by 10:00 Saturday night. Getting off work Sunday morning at 10:00. Just got off from working a12 hour night. Only sleep I'll get is on the ride down and the ride back from Texas.

My buddy and I have killed over 30 in a night in Texas.

He has a different voice for each character. The Ember Wars got me hooked. We play audio books on the way to Texas. I can also listen through my ear pro when I'm testing ammunition or rifles.

Luke Daniels does all of them. He does a good job.

More Richard Fox books.

Just remember they are not deer. The best place to shoot them is in the neck.

It'll work fine with the correct bullet.

It's happened to me. We get so focused on fixing the problem that we don't realize we forgot to plug it in. LOL

If you reduce the front sight and lower the rear sight, you're not doing anything.

If both are setup properly, they are both fine. Most of the problems with dual tube NV are because it's not adjusted to the user properly. On a terminal, guys run the brightness up too much. Set a thermal to where the brightness looks perfect and then go one step lower. Your pupil will dilate in that eye if the intensity is too high. When you take the scope away from your eye, you'll have night blindness in that eye for a few minutes. It'll cause your depth perception to run amok.

That depends on exactly what you're doing. You are driving around looking at your animals, night vision is perfect for this. A lot can hide from NV. If it's hard to see in the daylight, you will not see it in the dark. Coyotes at distance will be near impossible to see unless you catch movement or IR glinting off an eye. We sometimes stalk coyotes an hogs from as far as 800 yards using thermal. Thermal is much much faster for seeing what's out and about. Targets are easier to find and track as you shoot. NV guys let us scan and find targets. We usually light up their targets with an IR laser until the get on it and see it. The downside is the learning curve with thermal. To a new guy a coyote and a dog look the same (there is an easy way to determine the difference). Identifying targets takes a little getting used to. At first glance a skunk, opossum, and a raccoon look the same. After a few hours behind the the scope they look completely different. Think of it as learning a new language. You can also hide from thermal, but it's much harder for an animal. It's actually easier for a human. Glass or a silver thermal blanket will do it. Your best bet is to find someone that'll let you look at both so you can find out what's best for you. I have been running thermal for years now. I am biased, but I find myself needing some NV for driving.

How do you do this? We try and go out once a year. It didn't happen last year. LOL

If they just locked back on the last round.

A buddy of mine had a couple of thermal scopes put on his front porch in a neighborhood. It had happened before with this company, but this time they had stopped putting them in brown boxes. The boxes had the logo and exactly what it was on the outside. Nothing like seeing $14k in merchandise just sitting out there.

I made $6,456 on ebay last year. Unfortunately I paid $7,679 for the parts new. I should get a tax refund. LOL