OK... It's a totally different world here in the SE US when it comes to night or even daytime hunting.
I've lived in Colorado and have hunted South Dakota as well and coyote hunting there was fun and in comparison to here in NW Florida it was easy.
After a couple of years of trying to call coyotes in the daytime I decided it couldn't be that I was that poor of a caller so I bought my first NV scope. The Pulsar N750. It's a pretty nice NV scope for the money but it doesn't work very well on nights where there is little or no moon without the illuminator and my coyotes don't like that very well nor do they seem to like a bright moon at all... Sigh
So I sprung for the Flir PTS233 and VOILA it works great in any situation I've tried it in so far but now I get to the real crux of my question/problem.
The only 3 successful Florida Night Hunters I know all hunt from their Truck and/or UTV. I mean they're in the bed of their truck or sitting in their ATV calling and/or driving around looking for hogs or coyotes.
I have a Tacoma that I could use I guess and have a dog box I could mount some kind of swivelling shooting chair on although all but the extremely expensive swiveling shooting chairs tend to be noisy and flimsy with very little chance of rifle accuracy due to wobble.
Does anyone have any ideas before I just jump off the deep end and buy a $10,000 UTV and turn it into a mobile hunting blind for another couple thousand?
This dang coyote and hog hunting in the dark is even more expensive than my deer hunting. LOL
I've lived in Colorado and have hunted South Dakota as well and coyote hunting there was fun and in comparison to here in NW Florida it was easy.
After a couple of years of trying to call coyotes in the daytime I decided it couldn't be that I was that poor of a caller so I bought my first NV scope. The Pulsar N750. It's a pretty nice NV scope for the money but it doesn't work very well on nights where there is little or no moon without the illuminator and my coyotes don't like that very well nor do they seem to like a bright moon at all... Sigh
So I sprung for the Flir PTS233 and VOILA it works great in any situation I've tried it in so far but now I get to the real crux of my question/problem.
The only 3 successful Florida Night Hunters I know all hunt from their Truck and/or UTV. I mean they're in the bed of their truck or sitting in their ATV calling and/or driving around looking for hogs or coyotes.
I have a Tacoma that I could use I guess and have a dog box I could mount some kind of swivelling shooting chair on although all but the extremely expensive swiveling shooting chairs tend to be noisy and flimsy with very little chance of rifle accuracy due to wobble.
Does anyone have any ideas before I just jump off the deep end and buy a $10,000 UTV and turn it into a mobile hunting blind for another couple thousand?
This dang coyote and hog hunting in the dark is even more expensive than my deer hunting. LOL
