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September 27, 2023, Hall's Bayou Ranch, humid and 85+ degrees. Guys were walking back from the sight where latest perforated hoglet had expired.

1.5x base mag.



Great for discovery, then go to the gun.

ya!

GWB

A 385 res from any of the known players will always be useful, scanner or scope.

Atta Boy Red Face Burnsy

Hey, geedub. Can a guy turn off those little blinking green cross thingy's? Those would drive me frickin batty having to look at them.

That's just "Hot Tracking" and can be on or off in a setting.

I know what you mean.

Yes they can,

That was my first outing with the Scanner, and it does have a bit of a learning curve.

Typically do not use the hot tracking option. Usually just plain old black hot or white hot.

Best,


GWB

A friend pre-positioned an N-Vision Halo XRF at my house for an upcoming pig hunt. Haven’t shot with it yet but have played around with it a bit and it is super impressive. Day, night, close, far, doesn’t matter. Critters just pop. Very impressed with the range finder too, having ranged stuff at > 1200 yards. Will zero it today if time allows.

YouTube video is not mine, but does give a good idea of image quality.

John

https://nvisionoptics.com/product/halo-xrf/

That’s what I pair with an AGM Neith NV scope and Sniper Hog light. The little Pulsar sees use in all kinds of scenarios and is super handy on a neck strap. The 640 scanner and NV combo seems to me like a lot of kit for $3k. Very capable. The only real advantage of 640 over 384 for the scanner is ID range, especially with smaller critters. I could tell a lone deer from a lone hog at 300yds with my 384res version, which was actually plenty of capability for a hog hunter.

hondo, a guy has to kill a chitload of $10 dollar coyotes to pay for that halo unit......

Roger that! That’s why I don’t have one, but much to my amazement, the wife said we might need to invest in one in the future…

John

I never thought that my thermal scope and monocular were money making financial investments.

I have a Pulsar Thermion 2 XP50 scope and the Pulsar Merger LRF XP50 bino's. What an awesome combination. I prefer having the range finding abilities on my bino's, rather than the scope because it mimics my day hunting of spot and range with the bino's and shoot it with the rifle.

A pretty cool function on the Pulsar is the pair to phone with the movement ID/alert function. If your hunting pigs at a feeder, you can prop the rifle to look at the feeder, then turn the display off to conserve battery. Meantime, stream it to your phone and enable the alert and auto start recording. The phone will ding/vibrate and start recording when the pigs show up.

Got the pulsar scanner-matic today. This thing is gonna be a lotta fun. It picks up traffic out on the interstatefrom 800-1700 yards, my longhorns at 1500 yards, chickens at 150. I'll do more playing with it tonight after dark....





The tripod mount isn't a simple screwhole on the bottom, but a angle deallie that mounts to the front. Kinda weird, but seems to work ok....

Good luck sleeping at night….lol

I'm not sure how it is there, but where I hunt, I can go all day and not see a critter. However, at night the woods come alive.

ya!

GWB

Weird evening with the N-Vision Halo. Put my .22 GT with thermal on it on my tripod and was observing the field behind the house. Spotted several jack rabbits and was able to range them as far as 439 yards. Was then looking at neighbor’s cows 1000 yards to my south and saw a pair of coyotes with them. Was able to range the coyotes at well past 1k. Watched what they were doing and it looked like they were harassing a heifer that was calving. Took the mule down there to try and get a shot at a coyote. I did take a shot at 233 yards, but just didn’t have a good position and missed. Went back to observing the laboring cow. Something just wasn’t right with it so I went through the fence to get a better look. Once I got close enough I saw it wasn’t a calving heifer at all but rather a big sow. Didn’t look like she was birthing. She was popping her tenth at me but she couldn’t get up. The coyotes had been chewing on her ass end. Killed her with my 9mm. I’m sure the coyotes will feast tonight.

John

Went out for a little bit tonight just to try the new 15-384 AGM scanner. Thing worked very well and I experienced what most have said about night vision.

Saw a white horse at about 150 yards away with the scanner. He was in some timber with lots of low hanging limbs between us. My Wraith mini 4K could not pick the horse up enough to positively ID. I could see it plain as day with the thermal.

I will upgrade to a thermal scope one day for sure. But for now the NV will have to do.

Looks like a heck of a coyote setup there. The GH50R seems impressive.

Yep. BC's be-damned at night.
Get all the @ss in the tank you can get.

Pretty crisp footage there, Al. And recorded video is compressed/downgraded compared to the view one actually sees in the scope.