Help me transition my AR to be a coyote setup...

Can’t help with a thermal, but it’s hard to beat the Griffin Explorr 224 in terms of weight, sound suppression, length, and back pressure. I have a lot of cans….over 2 dozen, and I’d pick the explorr for the above reasons.
 
Agree with everyone here that you want a minimum of 640 on your thermal. Budget friendly options are pretty lean but I’d maybe start with Pulsar Trail XP50. I would think by now you could find one of those at a decent price. They’re well built and mine still functions great as a “backdoor I hear something stirring out back let’s take a quick peek” grab and go scanner.
 
Or…go with a DNT Zulus w/ rangefinder and built in ballistic calc so you can use it day and night. Get a Rix K3 to scan with (also comes in handy to scan during deer season). I have the Arken Zulus (V1) and can easily identify yotes at 400 yards with the onboard IR illuminator. My furthest one was at 255 yards and stiffed him with a 55g Vmax this winter.
 
crapshoot said:
Identify as in by body shape or as in eye shine?
New to this stuff and asking an honest question.
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With night vision you can tell if it is a coyote or your neighbor's dog!

Just had this happen a few weeks ago. I had my thermal setup on my rifle on my back deck,see a K-9 coming my way (I watch via the APP from my couch), go get on the gun,something ain't right, moving wrong too slow,too big, tail too long, etc. grab the spotlight sure enough my neighbor's Golden retriever! @ 1:30 A.M.!! I have quite a few hours looking through this scope and thermal is easy to misidentify animals. You have to pay very close attention to how things move, their tail, every little detail to be confident as to what your shooting at. I guess if your hunting in the middle of nowhere you would not have to worry about it so much. But mistaking a dog for a coyote is easy to do.

With night vision there would have been no doubt that it was a dog and not a coyote.
 
If you insist on not spending a ton on a thermal nocpix l35 bolt w/ lrf. A better option is a agm adder v2 50x640, nocpix rh50r, or the ace 50 are solid choices.

An agm spectrum lrf night vision when paired with a good scanner will really help you with target identification if your a first time night hunter.

I get the ny supressor hate, im 15 minutes from the border and don't go into the state without a must go reason.
 
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