How many night targets must fall in order to extract the ultimate use from an electronic sight ranging nearly $10,000?
The scope I am using here is closer to $5500.00. I started to learn early on with my first night vision setup how many hunting trips I had blown by not being able to see very well, waiting to spotlight with a flashlight. Changing over to thermal started to reveal how many animals I was missing using night vision for spotting. It isn't just the increased productivity, but the decrease in disappointing hunts that makes thermal worthwhile. Maybe the ultimate use is being able to shoot at targets that are viable, but completely unseeable by Gen III night vision. My hunting partner spots with Gen III NV and 9 times out of 10, I see stuff before him and often it is stuff in the shadows, back in the woods, or blended in with higher grass that he can't see at all.
Did you get tired of tracking them.
LOL, I make a head shot when I have a high confidence in the shot. I make a boilerroom shot when I don't (too shaky, too far, moving hog, etc.). I actually prefer quartered shots under those circumstances as my bullets tend to pass through on straight broadside shots on hogs less than 200 lbs. and so a quartered shot gives the bullet more tissue to pass through and destroy.
I really do like head shots as they really tend to put the animal down straight away. I hedged my shot in this case. Had he moved his head to his right, I would have had a nice boilerroom shot. Further to his left and I would have had a fine head shot.
