nightime pest removal-- the law?

[ShaunM]

Solution to the problem arrived this week. Made final adjustments last night. Waiting.

Well what is it?

[Dolomite_supafly]

In a far away land I would shoot their version of coyotes all the time, they called them jackals or that was the closest the interpreter could come up with. We always hunted at night using NV and AR's but our NV was head mounted and not weapon mounted. They would hang around a burn pit we had in a valley and from time to time come into camp. They would mostly hang out on the side of a mountain and we would shoot from the valley using our truck for support.

We would use red lense flashlights to illuminate the area. They seemed to work better than white lights because it didn't scare them off but also illuminted the area well. Using a Surefire with a 60 lumen bulb and red lense we could cause their eyes to glow out past 300 yards.

On my weapon I had a red laser and a Eotech. The red laser was on the bottom rail and would illuminate for what seemed like an eternity thru the NV yet didn't distract the jackals. I zeroed the Eotech for 50 yards and the laser at 25 yards or vise versa(I can't remember now). With this setup as long as the side of the jackal was somewhere between the center dot of the Eotech and the dot of the laser I would get hits out to about 200 yards. The biggest problem I had was when they were on the move and not looking at me as they would blend into the background.

My friend and I have even shot them with pistols by slowly moving up on them as they stood around the burn pit.

Hope you get them as it sounds like they are a big problem.

Dolomite

[DaveS]

Since Night scopes are not allowed by law in Tennessee, please delete this post!

[ShaunM]

Closing thread.

Edited October 20, 2010 by Hunting101