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Anyone use a thermal to "find" the deer?
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<blockquote data-quote="OH58DViper" data-source="post: 2095090" data-attributes="member: 91223"><p>I use a thermal to help scout all kinds of animals and people too! Ha</p><p></p><p>A hand held thermal helps but I don't think you'll be happy in a wooded area under darkness for locating purposes (alive). In an open area they are great. Though, if the grass is high enough to obscure the majority of their bodies it will act as a thermal shield. You will most likely blow them out still due to noise...after all, you're in the woods correct? Additionally, when it gets very cold out antler does not "glow" anymore. I have to maneuver so that i put the antler frame between me and the body to show "cold bone", like a black line through the white hot body. And I'm 1000% positive my $40,000,000 Apache has a much smaller minimum resolvable temperature than a $400 hand held.</p><p></p><p>If you have found their bedding area, just set up close to it, why walk through or hunt in their bedding? Unless you're a walk and stalk in the woods Hunter, which will never yield consistent results. (Please save me from the old curmudgeons who will swear that technique works in a heavily wooded area) if the deer are in bed and you're blowing them out, your route in/out, location to hunt, wind, or timing is wrong. Whitetails are the easiest animals to pattern that we hunt. Trail cameras set up on travel corridors from bedding to food are your greatest asset. I note time and direction of travel and correlate that with multiple cameras, then develop a plan of attack. I haven't eaten tag soup in many years on public land or elsewhere. Keep in mind I am trophy hunting oriented, if you're shooting just to fill your freezer and kill whatever, follow your heart.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OH58DViper, post: 2095090, member: 91223"] I use a thermal to help scout all kinds of animals and people too! Ha A hand held thermal helps but I don’t think you’ll be happy in a wooded area under darkness for locating purposes (alive). In an open area they are great. Though, if the grass is high enough to obscure the majority of their bodies it will act as a thermal shield. You will most likely blow them out still due to noise...after all, you’re in the woods correct? Additionally, when it gets very cold out antler does not “glow“ anymore. I have to maneuver so that i put the antler frame between me and the body to show ”cold bone”, like a black line through the white hot body. And I’m 1000% positive my $40,000,000 Apache has a much smaller minimum resolvable temperature than a $400 hand held. If you have found their bedding area, just set up close to it, why walk through or hunt in their bedding? Unless you’re a walk and stalk in the woods Hunter, which will never yield consistent results. (Please save me from the old curmudgeons who will swear that technique works in a heavily wooded area) if the deer are in bed and you’re blowing them out, your route in/out, location to hunt, wind, or timing is wrong. Whitetails are the easiest animals to pattern that we hunt. Trail cameras set up on travel corridors from bedding to food are your greatest asset. I note time and direction of travel and correlate that with multiple cameras, then develop a plan of attack. I haven’t eaten tag soup in many years on public land or elsewhere. Keep in mind I am trophy hunting oriented, if you’re shooting just to fill your freezer and kill whatever, follow your heart. [/QUOTE]
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