I scored a used Vue pro 640 19mm lens recently and got it hooked up in a go-light housing on the roof of my truck and am using my laptop as a monitor.
So I'm parked in a fresh cut corn field checking out my surroundings when I see this hog step out of the edge of a soybean field into the cut corn.
This hog is about 100 yards away, perfectly upwind of me in my truck. I stepped out and got the rifle ready to shoot when I discovered the battery was dead in riflescope DVR. No worries. I step back into the truck and hit record on the phone app and capture the action from a different perspective.....
I was using instalert from the color pallet. When I first got the camera (my first flir) and was playing around with it in the day time, I really didn't think much of instalert. It seems to produce a lot of red highlights from objects that are catching a lot of sun. Earlier in the week I tried it while out in the field and realized that it works really well for hunting. So far, in my limited experience with it at night away from pavement, anything that "pops" red is a warm blooded creature.
Anyway, there's not much to this video and there's no sound, but I thought it was pretty cool never the less.
The far tree line in the right upper corner of the screen was too far for me to range find. With the Vue I was able to spot 5 deer without a problem. Ok, I was able to see 5 spots and judged them to be five deer from their movement. They did seems to vanish and reappear, but when I zoomed in on them they were visible the whole time.
I was able to see them the whole time with my IR Hunter 35, but am satisfied with the "detection" range at that distance. I believe the treeline was about 600 yards. But I'll check it next visit in the daytime to know for sure.
So I'm parked in a fresh cut corn field checking out my surroundings when I see this hog step out of the edge of a soybean field into the cut corn.
This hog is about 100 yards away, perfectly upwind of me in my truck. I stepped out and got the rifle ready to shoot when I discovered the battery was dead in riflescope DVR. No worries. I step back into the truck and hit record on the phone app and capture the action from a different perspective.....
I was using instalert from the color pallet. When I first got the camera (my first flir) and was playing around with it in the day time, I really didn't think much of instalert. It seems to produce a lot of red highlights from objects that are catching a lot of sun. Earlier in the week I tried it while out in the field and realized that it works really well for hunting. So far, in my limited experience with it at night away from pavement, anything that "pops" red is a warm blooded creature.
Anyway, there's not much to this video and there's no sound, but I thought it was pretty cool never the less.
The far tree line in the right upper corner of the screen was too far for me to range find. With the Vue I was able to spot 5 deer without a problem. Ok, I was able to see 5 spots and judged them to be five deer from their movement. They did seems to vanish and reappear, but when I zoomed in on them they were visible the whole time.
I was able to see them the whole time with my IR Hunter 35, but am satisfied with the "detection" range at that distance. I believe the treeline was about 600 yards. But I'll check it next visit in the daytime to know for sure.
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