Originally Posted By: Gman757
I am anxious to hear about your first night out with the EagleTac????
Me too! Let's hear about it!
I went out on the state wildlife management park last night with the NV gear hog hunting. Thought we'd get rained out as it rained 3" in the afternoon through 8PM.
Finally got out onto the preserve about 8:30PM and within 10 minutes I spied a large boar and shot him from about 125 yards using the PVS-14 mounted behind the Eotech NV with 3X magnifier. Aimed for the neck and hit him but he made it into the scrub and we could not recover him.
The NV gear worked absolutely superb, the only hassle was the fog and mist from the rain reduced my view somewhat but not too bad, although it did pretty much block the IR Illuminator pretty good. Also, there were some far off cell towers blinking that made it difficult to shoot the hog I did shoot as well as scanning over the swamp trails we hiked on.
We covered about 5 miles through the swamp on a jeep trail on foot and saw just unbelievable destruction and rootings from all the herds of hogs. This place has an extreme hog problem to say the least...
The swamp ground was almost solid peat a couple of feet thick and the hogs had turned it over better than a track bulldozer could, it really was remarkable to see the amount of devastation that these herds of hogs had done to the parks pristine land.
This was my first time there and it was at night so it was difficult to get bearings without the GPS. We stayed out until 12:30PM when the fog settled in too strong and came home.
There was PLENTY OF COYOTE SCAT all over the jeep trail we hiked out on, this is going to be an outstanding 'yote hunting area with my FoxPro gear day and night. I did see one coyote walking the trail but we were not able to get close enough to take him out.
All in all,the NV gear worked absolutely great and I was very impressed with it, it is so awesome to be 100% non-intrusive with no visible lights while hunting.
My friend is going back out this morning to try to find the hog I hit, it was big one for sure but 20 feet off the main trail is a massive jumbo mess of vines, briars, and impenetrable jungle.
Thanks to TNVC for all the NV gear, we are going to need an NV scope and I would like another PVS too....