Sow Nailed in Backyard
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SkyPup
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Got out of the UTV without my rifle and went for a walk. No sooner do I get a 100 yards that I see a large sounder group in thick woods to my right. All I had was the SIG .357 with 124 grain Hornaday reloads and there were six large sows over 325 pounds, so I took out this small hog with the pistol with a lung shot that went clean through him.
SkyPup
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Nailed my first nice hog thanks to the FLIR M-324XP thermal camera.
Set up right at twilight at a known crossing and had the FLIR covering the road down into a ravine about 125 yards in front of me and sat quiet, just as it was getting too dark to shoot an entire herd of hogs came out of the thick woods and started crossing the road, I could barely see them in the twilight darkness. Sat and watched them on the thermal for about two minutes as they were cavorting around back and forth around the road and figured I would not have a shot.
However this big sow cam walking up the road to the top of the hill that I was on and just kept coming, I could see her on the thermal and just keep quiet.
Finally she was less than 100 feet in front of me all lite up on the FLIR thermal and I took a head shot on her with my Thompson Center Contender with 10" barrel in .44 MAG with a 1.5X T/C scope.
Slug hit her right in the head and put her down.
This is the second kill with the M-Series, got another small shoat the other night too, but this one is a good 275 pounds...
Set up right at twilight at a known crossing and had the FLIR covering the road down into a ravine about 125 yards in front of me and sat quiet, just as it was getting too dark to shoot an entire herd of hogs came out of the thick woods and started crossing the road, I could barely see them in the twilight darkness. Sat and watched them on the thermal for about two minutes as they were cavorting around back and forth around the road and figured I would not have a shot.
However this big sow cam walking up the road to the top of the hill that I was on and just kept coming, I could see her on the thermal and just keep quiet.
Finally she was less than 100 feet in front of me all lite up on the FLIR thermal and I took a head shot on her with my Thompson Center Contender with 10" barrel in .44 MAG with a 1.5X T/C scope.
Slug hit her right in the head and put her down.
This is the second kill with the M-Series, got another small shoat the other night too, but this one is a good 275 pounds...
doublecheese
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Wow it's a great idea.
Can the hogs see the 850nm ?
Can the hogs see the 850nm ?
doublecheese
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I have a 850nm IR Light and when I point it to the wild boars during baiting it feels like they see the light and they look at the source of the ir light.
http://www.laserluchs.de/index.php?cPath=5
Wolves see the ir light for sure even from far away and they just run away.
http://www.laserluchs.de/index.php?cPath=5
Wolves see the ir light for sure even from far away and they just run away.
SkyPup
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That does seem kind of implausible as neither hogs nor wolves have the opsin proteins in their retinal photopigment cells to pick up any upper visual wavelength red at all, it is just gray to them? Perhaps the contrast of the gray is what scares them off.
Regardless it has not been a problem for me with either coyotes or hogs as they will stand in the 850nm IR light forever without noticing anything.
Here is the 24 watt 850nm IR headlamp blaster on the UTV:
Regardless it has not been a problem for me with either coyotes or hogs as they will stand in the 850nm IR light forever without noticing anything.
Here is the 24 watt 850nm IR headlamp blaster on the UTV:
SkyPup
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More summer hog hunts on public lands thanks to Florida Fish and Game Commission:
http://www.myfwc.com/hunting/by-species/wild-hog/hog-hunts/
http://www.myfwc.com/hunting/by-species/wild-hog/hog-hunts/
doublecheese
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oh lucky you...
In our case, our government loves the hogs and they keep restricting the hunts during summer. Currently many fields are attacked by the hogs and the villagers (or us) can not shoot them!!! Apparently we are now only allowed to scare them away by making some noises. This forces us to make illegal hunts
We must send our hunting committee officers to USA for some practical training and for them to learn the damage these hogs are causing and what kind of methods USA follows to stop them.
In our case, our government loves the hogs and they keep restricting the hunts during summer. Currently many fields are attacked by the hogs and the villagers (or us) can not shoot them!!! Apparently we are now only allowed to scare them away by making some noises. This forces us to make illegal hunts
We must send our hunting committee officers to USA for some practical training and for them to learn the damage these hogs are causing and what kind of methods USA follows to stop them.
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Originally Posted By: SkyPupOne of the very few times that I did not need my FLIRs......
Suckers came out of the woods about a 150 yards down the road and walked right up to me?[:O]
Must have thought I was their momma.
Those are perfect eatin' size. Did you not take any of them?
btw, awesome rifles/gear and nice pics. sub'd
Suckers came out of the woods about a 150 yards down the road and walked right up to me?[:O]
Must have thought I was their momma.
Those are perfect eatin' size. Did you not take any of them?
btw, awesome rifles/gear and nice pics. sub'd
SkyPup
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Here is a more representative NV photo of the awesome Larson Electronics 850nm IR Blaster out on the cattle pasture grade, it is 1/2 mile to the reflector out there on the road....
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Here is one a hundred yards back into the live oak hammock before entering the pasture:
Pretty much turns night into bright daylight!
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Here is one a hundred yards back into the live oak hammock before entering the pasture:
Pretty much turns night into bright daylight!
SkyPup
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Installed the SPI 720X480 waterproof mini DVR recorder so that I can record stalks and kills from the cab from the FLIR M-324 thermal video camera using a series of BNC connectors to a final RCA jack.
Also, you can see the the lite up RED LED warning that the powerful 850nm IR Blaster is ON.
Also, you can see the the lite up RED LED warning that the powerful 850nm IR Blaster is ON.
SkyPup
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LOL, this is getting too easy....
I'm cruising down the forest road out back in the UTV with the FLIR M-324 running and see two distinct hot spots about 250 yards ahead, cut the engine and watch them darting out of the thick cover on the side of the road. Decide to exit the UTV and stalk up a little closer on the road with the FLIR T-70 to see if it is a couple of coons or possibly some hogs?
Take a sitting position in the middle of the road (full moon coming up bright) and watch them in the thermal scope, decide they are in fact some hogs and about to get up to mosey in a bit closer when suddenly they both take off running right down the middle of the road towards me?
Caught a little off balance but watch them keep coming, at 125 yard coming right at me I decide to take out the one on the left with a frontal head shot as this is too good to be true and don't want to have them run off into cover.
BAM, he drops in his tracks with bullets between the eyes!
Other dude halts in his tracks and looks his buddy over and three seconds later BAM - head shot and he drops in his tracks.
Couple of 90 pounders are in the sausage grinder!
Awesome!
I'm cruising down the forest road out back in the UTV with the FLIR M-324 running and see two distinct hot spots about 250 yards ahead, cut the engine and watch them darting out of the thick cover on the side of the road. Decide to exit the UTV and stalk up a little closer on the road with the FLIR T-70 to see if it is a couple of coons or possibly some hogs?
Take a sitting position in the middle of the road (full moon coming up bright) and watch them in the thermal scope, decide they are in fact some hogs and about to get up to mosey in a bit closer when suddenly they both take off running right down the middle of the road towards me?
Caught a little off balance but watch them keep coming, at 125 yard coming right at me I decide to take out the one on the left with a frontal head shot as this is too good to be true and don't want to have them run off into cover.
BAM, he drops in his tracks with bullets between the eyes!
Other dude halts in his tracks and looks his buddy over and three seconds later BAM - head shot and he drops in his tracks.
Couple of 90 pounders are in the sausage grinder!
Awesome!
doublecheese
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You are living the life I wanna live
just that your hogs are baby compared to ours 
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