I had to send my thermal scope back last week for repair. The battery housing crapped out on me so I had to do the best I could without it tonight. I spotted a nice pack of hogs with my rooftop thermal as I rounded a bend at the edge of a cut corn field. They were only about a 100-150 yards away when they came into view. It had just become black dark when I found them.
I turned off the engine and grabbed my day-scoped 30 Herrett and my pocket flashlight and hoped for the best since I would need to hold the flashlight with the same hand I would be holding my rifle. About the time I got close enough that I could hear them, I could also faintly make out the black silhouettes just off the turn row. Now I knew where to look for them and quietly got my rifle and light into position and hit the thumb switch.
In the video right before I shoot, you can see one lie down on the ground. Watching from this perspective, it looks like I shot it right after it decided to take a nap. Had I seen this happen live with my thermal scope I most certainly would have chosen that one as my first target. The first one I saw when the light came one was the one lying down. When I shot, the sound sent the rest of them into orbit. I managed to get off a second shot through the cloud of gunsmoke that almost blocked my scope behind the light and connected with a second one before the rest escaped into the tall palmettos.
Here's where my luck gets even worse. I didn't know exactly how to do this with the flir vue, but somehow I recorded the whole event using the timelapse feature. The original video looks like it plays back in fast forward. Luckily the settings previously selected were such that I was able to edit the video using the YouTube editor, applying slow motion to the whole video so it is somewhat watchable.
I can't take credit for being an forward moonwalking expert. Haha.
I turned off the engine and grabbed my day-scoped 30 Herrett and my pocket flashlight and hoped for the best since I would need to hold the flashlight with the same hand I would be holding my rifle. About the time I got close enough that I could hear them, I could also faintly make out the black silhouettes just off the turn row. Now I knew where to look for them and quietly got my rifle and light into position and hit the thumb switch.
In the video right before I shoot, you can see one lie down on the ground. Watching from this perspective, it looks like I shot it right after it decided to take a nap. Had I seen this happen live with my thermal scope I most certainly would have chosen that one as my first target. The first one I saw when the light came one was the one lying down. When I shot, the sound sent the rest of them into orbit. I managed to get off a second shot through the cloud of gunsmoke that almost blocked my scope behind the light and connected with a second one before the rest escaped into the tall palmettos.
Here's where my luck gets even worse. I didn't know exactly how to do this with the flir vue, but somehow I recorded the whole event using the timelapse feature. The original video looks like it plays back in fast forward. Luckily the settings previously selected were such that I was able to edit the video using the YouTube editor, applying slow motion to the whole video so it is somewhat watchable.
I can't take credit for being an forward moonwalking expert. Haha.
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