Originally Posted By: SkyPupLOL, I've gotta try this with thermal!
I've read all 91 pages of your NV stuff over at the gofoxpro.com forum on Night Vision hunting. It took me three days to read all on that thread but it was a great read.
The last few months answered a couple of my questions that I had wanted to ask you. One was what you do for a living to buy all those neat cool toys. You sure keep the UPS man busy delivering to your house.
You have the coolest toys and setup for hunting hogs of anyone I've ever seen.
And second, I was wondering when you would put a silencer on that Sig of yours! All those coyotes and pigs to shoot and now they won't even hear the gun shots anymore.
And three I wondered where you lived in Florida but you put your longitude and latitude numbers on the FLIR video and I found your back yard on Google Earth. I can even see where the hogs have rooted the garden up. I figured you lived in a swamp but you actually have quite a few neighbors not that far away.
I enjoyed reading about your PVS14, Helmet Mounting System, IR scouting devices and IR scopes and all the videos you posted.
I sure hope you have several very big freezers to keep all those hogs you butcher and keep to eat. Pork the other White Meat.
I never could figure if you worked or just went hunting all the time until you said something about being a retired veterinarian. I knew you were in the medical field when you referred to the chest as the Thoracic Cavity! Most people would just call that a Chest Shot!
You sure are lucky to have Vic come down and bring all his new toys with him for you guys to hung hogs with. If I had a place to hunt hogs I'd be looking hard at one of the new FLIR RA or RS devices. 66 with 35 mm objective. I hope I got that right. Not your TV70 or TV50 but it's all that I could afford. We don't have many hogs in IN unless they are fenced in. Most of those belong to my AGR brothers.
You have so many hogs down at your place that I first thought that you lived on a Pig Farm. You shot five and twenty more come the next night.
I wondered if you ever sleep. But you finally said that you only get two or three hours sleep a night. That was what I was figuring as you said you skin the pigs until 2 am and then go to bed. I wish I had that much energy still. I'm retired too but I sleep a whole lot more than you do.
Anyway just wanted to say Hi and thank you for all the great information that you give to others. You IMHO are helping a lot of people learn about nigh vision equipment and how to use it.
If you guys reading this have not read skypups stuff over at
www.gofoxpro.com I highly recommend you zip on over there to read his posts on the Night Vision or Night Hunting forum. I know that I learned a whole lot about NV stuff and thermal imaging systems.
I spend the day trying to figure out how to buy a Thermal Imaging system for my EOTECH EXPS3.4 and G33 magnifier system. EOTech stopped distribution to a few of the things I looked at in the 2013 calendar according to the Optics Plant web site. And the inline NV M2124 is about $8000 which is way out of my price range. I don't have the money to buy a AN or NEPVS14-17 system and the IR light and laser designator along with the helmet and mounting system. But I might be able to afford one of them new FLIR things that you talked about in page 91 over on FoxPro. You got me interested in buying one of them even though I don't have any hogs to shoot here. But it looked like so much fun.
I've read that we have wild hogs in the County that I live in but I've never seen them myself. But there are some guys who hunted them and have taken pictures of them after they were shot. But those hogs were shot in another county which is about 4 counties over from where I live.