KUDOS TO TACTICAL NIGHT VISION COMPANY

Barnes 130 grain TSX,

LC Brass,

Wolf Large Rifle Magnum primers,

50.0 grains Hodgdon BLC-2,

3,100fps 16" barrel.


It's devastating when it hits something solid.




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New swine bushwacker setup.

Knights Armament KAC-15 SBR lower with 10.5" E3 upper and Advanced Armament 12.5" .300 BLK upper:




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Just waiting on two more cans to get out of jail.....
 
This one out in the middle of Fairway #2 at the upscale Country Club in one of their electric golf carts using the venerable Flir T-50 on RRA 300BLK with 240 grain Sierra SMK subs, another dropped DRT on the Driving Range!




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It was difficult to tell which was louder, the bolt slamming back into action on the 300 BLK or the 240 grain SMK smacking the hogs like a sledge hammer?
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This is FLIR's new Graded Fire color pallet on the RS Scope for those that have never seen it before.

It is programmed to work differently than the InstaAlert does in that it does not entirely fill in the target with color and still leaves allot of Black Hot thermal image to give a great contrast for actually shooting.


It also works very good for detection too as there is less false thermal imaging.




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I like it allot.
 
Here are some representative pics through the IRD MKII-35mm and FLIR RS32-35mm that we made shooting a 586 pound and a 420 pound hog @100 yards at night in 80+F temp and saturated 100% humidity.

It just goes to show that at the most common 100 or so yard shooting range at night, you can do allot with a little.....



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The FLIR seems to give you more apparent depth perception and surface differentiation than the IR. Seems like it would make it a little easier to have better shot placement.
Which do you prefer, the FLIR or the IR?
 
There are different adjustments and instrument settings on both instruments, I had the IRD MKII-35 adjusted to what works best for me and the FLIR RS32-35mm was setup on the S2 User Preset.

The IRD is a 640X480 core with 35mm lens, the FLIR is a 320X240 core with a 35mm lens, this is apparent in the FOV of the two instruments when looking at the exact same thing at the exact same time at the exact same distance.

The FLIR boots up instantly to its pre-saved configuration, the IRD takes considerably more time to boot up and then adjust, the IRD also requires more frequent manual NUCs than the FLIR does.


This does point out that a much cheaper banger 320 core instrument can certainly put down the bacon with ease at the most common night hunting distance of 100 yards.
 
Here are some pics of the giant feral hogs from the FLIR M-18 handheld, did not have the objective lens quite focused for the distance but still turned out pretty good!


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And here are some pics from the FLIR LS-XR handheld thermal at the same time:




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Which unit turns on and ready to shoot faster...I was told the IRD takes about 10-12 seconds to shoot from off position..not sure if this is accurate.
 
Originally Posted By: Mr BenelliWhich unit turns on and ready to shoot faster...I was told the IRD takes about 10-12 seconds to shoot from off position..not sure if this is accurate.

Hands down the Flir RS64 boots up fastest and to the exact same previous settings that you saved in the User Preset feature, the IRDs take 2-3 times as long to boot up and need more manual NUCs to get going and stay going to cancel out the background noise.
 
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Big fat gravid sow on the 18 hole golf course fairway right below the Club House.

Took a 150 grain SMK .308 from a SIG 716 with a FLIR RS32-35mm and a 70 grain Barnes TSX from a HK 556 with Flir T-70 at 175 yards with both slugs hitting simultaneously.

Temp was about 55*F and clear skies with low humidity.

FLIR RS35-35mm worked excellent as did the FLIR T-70.

Hog shuddered and dropped in its tracks, video to come later on.....




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Just got that fat sow cleaned up and caped her for a mount for Bass Pro Shop and came out of the barn and a [beeep] coral snake was in the driveway.

One shot from Baby Browning cut it in half....




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Tossed out the feral hog offal this morning after cleaning up the cape for Bass Pro Shops and then this coyote shows up for some pork chops tonight and gets nailed @ 200 yards by the HK 556 with Flir T-70 right after Thanksgiving Dinner!

Wicked one shot kill....Bay Bee Cottontail worked like a charm.




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We had a great hunt and a great time last night blasting some wild hogs. I usually do not write up what went down to any great extent but this was pretty phunny and shows what you can do with two thermal handhelds and two thermal weapon scopes on two rifle with two hunters at night.

About two weeks ago, a little old lady that lives in a great big house all by herself called us up and asked if we’d come down to her 10 acre property and kill some hogs for her, she said they were destroying both her front and backyard. We were busy and told her we’d get back with her, which we did not do and subsequently she called up one of our friends who is a Game Warden to complain and ask if he’d do something about it. The Game Warden then called us up and said she had major hog problems and would we go down and setup a night shoot on her property. She was out of town on a vacation for a few days and he said we could setup in her yard this weekend.

We drove the truck down to her place and parked on the paved cul-de-sac and got out and scanned around with our Flir LS-XR and Flir LS-64 handheld thermals for any heat signature. Immediately we saw two does standing in her front yard with two bedded down fawns. However right across the street from the truck, we spotted a sounder group all lite up red in InstaAlert, but did not have permission for night hunting on that side of the street on someone else’s property. So, we backed down the street and waited to see if the sounder would cross the road to the other side where we did have permission to be night hunting. Sure enough, about ten minutes later, a sounder of about 10 hogs came around the end of the cul-de-sac in a ditch but we could see the tops of their backs from our vantage point. Hit a big sow and she went screaming off into a thick swamp right behind and we could her her thrashing in the water but could not get to her without waders. Put another round into her head in the pond and everything was quiet again. We had only been there for about 15 minutes and already had a dead hog.

Next we walked around to the rear of her large house and immediately spotted another loner hog about 175 yards out in a clearing. Figured he must be a boar since he was by himself in the middle of a large improved cattle pasture and there were no trees or anything to rest against so just took a standing shot at him and was surprised to see him drop dead in his tracks with a bullet to the spine right in front of his shoulder. Now we had at least one hog recovered.

Walked down a 50 foot embankment down into the cattle pasture by the dead hog and all the cows came over to check us out looking for feed. Spied another sounder off the edge of the pasture under some big live oaks rooting up fresh acorn mast with the Flir handhelds about a quarter mile away and made our way closer to them. Got setup standing again and opened up approximately 100 yards and two hogs immediately dropped dead right next to each other. Another ten hogs took off for the thick tall dog fennel to escape and another one of them got nailed before the rest vanished in the brush.

Since we had four hogs dead and recoverable and one other dead and lost in the pond, we decided to call it a night and get the truck to recover the dead hogs out in the field. Loaded them up and headed back home and dumped 200 pounds of ice (we have an on-site commercial ice machine in the barn) on the carcasses in the sled and left them to clean the next morning.

Got up bright and early at the ranch and were busy cleaning the hogs when a Deputy Sheriff pulls up in the driveway and gets out of his patrol car and heads out way. We were covered in blood with butcher wraps on and he asks us if we have seen a lost cow since a dozen cows had escaped the neighbors cattle pasture the night before. We said no and then he asks us, “Do you mind if I ask what you are doing?”, seeing all the blood and pile of offal he thought that we had butchered the missing cow!!! Things went much better after he saw all the hogs heads/capes and found out he’s on the same softball team…..

Gear used was a FLIR LS-XR handheld, FLIR LS-64 handheld, FLIR T-70 clip-on on a HK 556, and FLIR T-50 clip-on on a RRA 556 shooting Barnes 70 grain TSX:



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