Another large boar and a lotta walking.

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22magnum22

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Got this one Wednesday night around 9:40 PM. I had set up on a pond dam with good visibility for 3-4 hundred yard across a hay meadow. We have had several good rains and the grass was knee high and very thick. I had been on site since about 8:20 PM and had a constant parade of deer. I was scanning through my thermal scope (I need a scanner) and decided to scan the tree line and saw something but was unable to identify as I could only see about 1/3 of the body. I watched this "thing" for about 40 minutes before it finally came into full vision and no doubt, it was a hog. I put the LRF on it and got 212 yds. Squeezed the trigger and he went down. Second longest shot for the Ruger American 243 using Hornady 87gr Vmax. I made the trek to take my obligatory picture and looked with the aid of a small light for 35 to 40 minutes and could not find the hog. Oh well, it will be here in the morning and the buzzards will show me the location. Went back Thursday AM and
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got the pic
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tures, I guess him at 160 lbs. He was laying in a small depression, surrounded by tall grass. If you look closely you can see where HM1996 (Clarence) told me to aim for a DRT kill. It works!
 
Nice shot. It's tough to see them when the grass gets up and I have found that any elevation at all is a big advantage. I have killed a lot of hogs shooting out my truck bed and even that few feet of height helps a lot. The truck itself has never been as issue and I have killed them 15 yards from the truck and had have had them come in almost under my truck when the wind is just right.

With regard to needing a scanner I recently purchased a DNT Hound unit and it's a good bang for the buck unit. It's hard to find scanners with a good FOV because it seems most of the manufacturers think you need a unit with enough magnification to look at craters on the moon and they just don't cater to the close range hunters. The DNT Hound unit with the 15mm lens is a 1.5x unit with a 12 micron 384 core and it has been working pretty well for me. It has a LRF function as well as ballistics data software and with the cost at less than $1K I think it's worth a look.

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Thermal Monocular with Laser Rangefinder & Ballistics: HOUND H315R

HOUND H315R is a high-performance thermal imaging monocular featuring a precision laser rangefinder and ballistic calculator, providing accurate ranging from 5 to 1,200 yards. It has a 384×288 thermal sensor and a 1024×768 Micro-OLED display, with ≤25 mK thermal sensitivity @25 ℃ and a 15 mm...
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Gman757 said:
Nice shot. It's tough to see them when the grass gets up and I have found that any elevation at all is a big advantage. I have killed a lot of hogs shooting out my truck bed and even that few feet of height helps a lot. The truck itself has never been as issue and I have killed them 15 yards from the truck and had have had them come in almost under my truck when the wind is just right.

With regard to needing a scanner I recently purchased a DNT Hound unit and it's a good bang for the buck unit. It's hard to find scanners with a good FOV because it seems most of the manufacturers think you need a unit with enough magnification to look at craters on the moon and they just don't cater to the close range hunters. The DNT Hound unit with the 15mm lens is a 1.5x unit with a 12 micron 384 core and it has been working pretty well for me. It has a LRF function as well as ballistics data software and with the cost at less than $1K I think it's worth a look.

us.dntoptics.com

Thermal Monocular with Laser Rangefinder & Ballistics: HOUND H315R

HOUND H315R is a high-performance thermal imaging monocular featuring a precision laser rangefinder and ballistic calculator, providing accurate ranging from 5 to 1,200 yards. It has a 384×288 thermal sensor and a 1024×768 Micro-OLED display, with ≤25 mK thermal sensitivity @25 ℃ and a 15 mm...
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Thanks for the referral on the scanner. I wonder why no maker will offer a scanner that does not duplicate features already contained in a thermal scope. By that I mean a range finder and ballistic software is not needed when the scope is where any adjustment will have to be made prior to taking the shot. I believe there are a lot of hunters who could benefit with a simple scanner only and a much lower price.
 
22magnum22 said:
Thanks for the referral on the scanner. I wonder why no maker will offer a scanner that does not duplicate features already contained in a thermal scope. By that I mean a range finder and ballistic software is not needed when the scope is where any adjustment will have to be made prior to taking the shot. I believe there are a lot of hunters who could benefit with a simple scanner only and a much lower price.
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Since judging distance is no doubt the hardest thing to do when hunting with thermal technology, I think they are trying to fill the void that is out there with the thousands of thermal scopes that are in use now that were purchased before LRF was even available in scopes.
 
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