Originally Posted By: iowayotehunter76Awesome videos Kirsch! One question I have is that it looks to me like when the trigger is pulled, your cross hairs seem low to me. I was wondering if on some of those shots you are using the first mil dot above the cross hairs or maybe we just have different aiming points? I am not picking on you, it was just something I felt when I was watching. I have just started using thermal and am curious how others use it.
Again great footage!
I agree with you iowayouthunter76. However, I am not using the first mil dot. It is something with thermal and the coyote heat signature that draws my eyes lower on a coyote than I normally shoot. This is my first year with thermal as well. I have shot more than a thousand coyotes during daytime hours. For some reason when using thermal, my natural instinct is to aim lower than I do with a traditional scope. You combine this with the Pulsar Trail known issue of POI shift with temp, and it isn't a good combo. The colder my scope gets, the lower it shoots. The combination of me aiming a bit lower than normal, and my POI typically dropping as temps dropped led to more spinners and poor hits in comparison to what I am used to. No offense taken, either way they were dead coyotes but I had to work a little harder for a few of them or had to shoot twice. My fur buyer noticed when I started using thermal my hits were lower than normal as well. I have to reprogram my brain with thermal to aim higher than it naturally wants to. Looking through the videos, it seems to be more common in videos 1 and 2 than on 3 to me. I have been working on this and trying to tell myself on every stand. Practice doesn't help because it isn't an issue on targets, just coyote heat signatures.