Posted on 04/26/2011 6:36:04 PM PDT by wendy1946
Damndest hunting vid I've ever seen on YouTube so far.
These guys are using military style night optics and 308 caliber semiauto rifles and shotgun shooting techniques. Unlike most hunters, they're taking enough hogs to actually make dents in populations and aid farmers.
fyi ping.
We reallly are the most fun country,,,aren’t we?
EAT MORE PIG!
/johnny
Impressive. No one said varmit control had to be a chore. Good to see that the scales tip back onto the farmers’ side.
They take paying clients out for these hunts to remove hogs from paying landowners.
It's a good way to pay for that $10K scope. Some also used suppressed firearms with the thermals.
I’d like to have the shooting rigs they have.
Shooters appear to be using AR10 style rifles. My preference would still run towards FALs for that sort of thing.
And this little piggy went SPLAT! splat! SPLAT!
flagged as inappropriate and won’t play, bummer.
You’re allowed to hunt them from helicopters now too.
Try just getting onto youtube and searching on ‘jager pro’
do a youtube search for jager pro
several others from same company are available
Sounds like you might know a bit more about those scopes than I do; what exactly are thermal scopes?
Here piggy, piggy, piggy !!!
This little piggy got whacked with the dart
This little piggy got whacked in the heart
This little piggy got whacked without a fight
This little piggy got whacked at midnight
and this little piggy went wee, wee, wee all the way home (then got whacked).
Thermal scopes show anything that is warmer than the temperature of the surroundings as a brighter light in the scope. At night any warm blooded critter will be much warmer than the dirt, rocks, trees, and other items all reflected as the same dark shadows on the scope.
They are very useful and really expensive for higher resolution models. It’s the same technology you see on police helicopter videos following running suspects at night.
They detect thermal images.
Any real reason for a hunter interested in night shooting to want to spend that much money when you can buy high-power green laser lights for around 400? I mean, hogs don’t seem to see the green laser light.
I would love to have one of those scopes but at 10,000 bucks for the planned civilian version there are too many other things I would rather spend that amount on.
I have used the cheaper versions and they can work but they don’t have near the pixel resolution of these scopes nor do they withstand repeated recoil from larger caliber rifles (like the .308’s they are using).
A cheaper method that could be almost as much fun would be to use a spotlight if that is legal and a regular rifle scope. That is my .02.
I have never hunted wild hogs but it looks like lots of fun. I do know how much damage they can cause to farms or even landscaping.
We used a spotlight for racoons and that works very well since they climb trees. Too bad hogs can’t tree themselves!
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