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Another good trip.Hunted with a Hogster R35 thermal scope and it was interesting. Bit of a learning curve and passed on quite a few shots because was not quite sure of the distance. I used the 1x power for scanning and would see pigs out in the field and couldn't tell if 50 yds or over a 100 yards Limited myself to around 75 yards because needed more field time and practice at night with it. Definitely expanded hunting possibilities. Had lots of whitetails and mulies by me every day. Saw 2 pretty nice 140 -150 wt bucks one night of the hunt I counted 34 deer out in the field
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Turkey, Tx. been there. miles
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Great pics, but where's the piggy pics?
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Congrats on the hogs, and thanks for the great pics. That ain't West Texas though, BTW.
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Very nice, congrats on a job well done!
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Kill them damn pigs, only five or six million to go
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Congrats on the hogs, and thanks for the great pics. That ain't West Texas though, BTW. funny life long locals referred to area as WEST Texas I used to live in San Angelo if I remember the locals referred to it as W Texas Where does West Texas begin?
“It starts just east of Wichita Falls, then down to the outskirts of Abilene and San Angelo, then bulging a little further west as you move south,
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I never understood why the TX panhandle was the panhandle and not the smokestack. They have a perfectly good panhandle south and west of there but I don’t know what they call it
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Thats what I was figuring on the hogster scope. Not that much range. Going pulsar for sure. A bit more money and even the mid priced IE 3500 or so are easy good to 300 yards on decent size pigs. Just makes no sense to save a bit in the end but not be able to shoot past 100 yards.
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Thats what I was figuring on the hogster scope. Not that much range. Going pulsar for sure. A bit more money and even the mid priced IE 3500 or so are easy good to 300 yards on decent size pigs. Just makes no sense to save a bit in the end but not be able to shoot past 100 yards. There were no bait stands on this very large field and pasture field so kind of guessed where hogs would be and travel when it became dark. The field was over a 1000 yards long so imagine sitting in pitch black dark and getting close enough for a shot. Day time no problem. Sitting on a bait stand would have made much more easy. Im sure after some more hands -on I would be comfortable out to 200 to 250 yards at 4X. I spotted pigs over 400 yards away scanning with scope and trying to get close enough in the dark and know yardage and capability of scope was what held me back on shots. I could have shot more pigs and a few coyotes. Plus there were about 40 deer running around on the field and coyotes harassing the deer. You would not even know they were on the field until you scanned with thermal. 3 buttons on top of scope and just get to using them in pitch black. No negatives on the scope itself especially in that price range. The big plus with the Hogster is you can remove and use as a scanning device and put back on your rifle for a shot. I had a handheld Flir too but not near ly as good as the Hogster. Looking forward to using it more and give better feedback
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Turkey TX is in the Rolling Plains region.
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Turkey TX is in the Rolling Plains region. thanks for the input I guess West Texas doesn't exist based on your vegetation map? The only state in the nation with no western half I guess. No south Texas, no gulf Texas and no south border Texas region either. No western Colorado, No western Oregon, western New Mexico etc. Fascinating!! I was hunting between Lubbock and Abilene in West Texas. Cities and towns of West Texas Cities Region rank City Census 2013 population estimate[6] State ranked County 1 El Paso 674,433 6 El Paso County 2 Lubbock 258,862 11 Lubbock County 3 Amarillo 196,429 14 Potter County 4 Midland 123,933 26 Midland County 5 Abilene 120,099 27 Taylor County 6 Odessa 110,720 30 Ector County 7 San Angelo 97,492 37 Tom Green County 8 Socorro 32,517 77 El Paso County 9 Big Spring 28,125 104 Howard County 10 Plainview 22,194
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Mighty fine report and pix!
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ribka if you can find a place that has some jackrabbits they are great practice for a thermal. That helped me quite a bit. After shooting them we would hit them with a light and a rangefinder to determine yardage for practice. After a while you were able to judge distance a bit better also. It is also fun watching the bits and pieces fly off with it too. I've been shooting a Pulsar trail xp38 for almost 4 years now, they are a hoot!
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ribka if you can find a place that has some jackrabbits they are great practice for a thermal. That helped me quite a bit. After shooting them we would hit them with a light and a rangefinder to determine yardage for practice. After a while you were able to judge distance a bit better also. It is also fun watching the bits and pieces fly off with it too. I've been shooting a Pulsar trail xp38 for almost 4 years now, they are a hoot! unfortunately not too many jackrabbits in the heavily forested mountains of N Idaho where I reside.. That does sound like a good method though. Im thinking of just putting some heat pads on targets at various ranges in flat E WA and start practicing at night.
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That would work also. Once in a while in warmer weather we would use frozen water bottles for practice when we first started too. Anyway welcome to the new addiction.
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Congrats on the hogs, and thanks for the great pics. That ain't West Texas though, BTW. Kinda what I was thinking. But, I do live hunting in that Turkey to Shamrock area though.
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