I have a friend with a Flir PS24 and although it's essentially the stripped down bare bones model it has what I consider to be the most valuable feature that an infrared scanner can have for hunting applications.
INSTALERT!!! Why do it say it's the most valuable feature? That's a pretty big claim. Here's why I say it and I'm quite sure that others will poo poo what I say but that's why they make so many models of thermal scanners and we're all entitled to our opinions.
Imagine this... It's a slow night here in North Florida. The hogs are on someone else's hunting lease eating their corn and the coyotes are playing hard to get and only sparodically answering our FoxPro and they don't seem to be moving towards us.
Now we all know that ole Wiley loves to play tricks on us and fit's his name of "The Trickster" perfectly and now that we're getting sleepy and lazy thinking nothing is gonna come to the call and where should we be setting up next or should we go home and raid the fridge and fire up another Randy Anderson CD and drift off to the tune of "Come Little Coyote Come"....
Just as our normally sharp concentration starts fading, old Wiley decides to investigate that interloper into his territory after all and he starts slipping in dodging from clump of brush to clump of brush from an angle we would never have suspected.
Let's suppose our thermal monocular is set to white hot or black hot and that there is still enough heat left from the day to make our landscape dotted with varying temperatures further obscuring old Wiley's heat signature.
Don't forget that our concentration is fading after 20 long minutes on the stand as well and after all it's beerthirty and there are some cold Buds nestled in the frige at home....
BANG!!! You're busted! The dreaded challenge bark. Wiley slipped right past you to your downwind side and winded you and now he's broadcasting your exact location to every coyote within a few miles and laughing at your clumsiness and ineptness and you KNOW that he will be a LOT harder to fool the next time you're in his territory....
What went wrong? Here's my opinion.
The human brain can only stay alert just so long when the body is still and not moving. Trying to sit still and quiet for hour upon hour puts a strain on our ability to stay alert and peer into a monocular to see a coyote outline or movement amid a bunch of similar colored objects...
Enter the Instalert of the FLIR series of scanners and sights. I am sure that others probably offer a similar feature but I don't know who.... Instalert shows you that same boring black and white landscape but you don't have to peer nearly as intently to see the moving and usually fleeting silhouette. In fact I've found that I can carry on a conversation with my hunting partner, text my other hunting buddies eager for news on our success and fiddle with my other equipment and still not miss that sneaky old Wiley from slipping up on our poor unsuspecting FoxPro when Instalert is on.
Therein lies the strength of the Instalert. That RED blob moving on the black, gray, and white viewing screen of the FLIR is so easy to detect even with a distracted hunter with a wandering eye and 20 other things to steal his attention that he/she is unlikely to miss it...
That's my case I'm making fellow hunters... If I'm way off base please enlighten me. If you agree let me know and why. I'm here to learn and not show how smart I am.
Thanks for all your comments in advance.
$bob$
INSTALERT!!! Why do it say it's the most valuable feature? That's a pretty big claim. Here's why I say it and I'm quite sure that others will poo poo what I say but that's why they make so many models of thermal scanners and we're all entitled to our opinions.
Imagine this... It's a slow night here in North Florida. The hogs are on someone else's hunting lease eating their corn and the coyotes are playing hard to get and only sparodically answering our FoxPro and they don't seem to be moving towards us.
Now we all know that ole Wiley loves to play tricks on us and fit's his name of "The Trickster" perfectly and now that we're getting sleepy and lazy thinking nothing is gonna come to the call and where should we be setting up next or should we go home and raid the fridge and fire up another Randy Anderson CD and drift off to the tune of "Come Little Coyote Come"....
Just as our normally sharp concentration starts fading, old Wiley decides to investigate that interloper into his territory after all and he starts slipping in dodging from clump of brush to clump of brush from an angle we would never have suspected.
Let's suppose our thermal monocular is set to white hot or black hot and that there is still enough heat left from the day to make our landscape dotted with varying temperatures further obscuring old Wiley's heat signature.
Don't forget that our concentration is fading after 20 long minutes on the stand as well and after all it's beerthirty and there are some cold Buds nestled in the frige at home....
BANG!!! You're busted! The dreaded challenge bark. Wiley slipped right past you to your downwind side and winded you and now he's broadcasting your exact location to every coyote within a few miles and laughing at your clumsiness and ineptness and you KNOW that he will be a LOT harder to fool the next time you're in his territory....
What went wrong? Here's my opinion.
The human brain can only stay alert just so long when the body is still and not moving. Trying to sit still and quiet for hour upon hour puts a strain on our ability to stay alert and peer into a monocular to see a coyote outline or movement amid a bunch of similar colored objects...
Enter the Instalert of the FLIR series of scanners and sights. I am sure that others probably offer a similar feature but I don't know who.... Instalert shows you that same boring black and white landscape but you don't have to peer nearly as intently to see the moving and usually fleeting silhouette. In fact I've found that I can carry on a conversation with my hunting partner, text my other hunting buddies eager for news on our success and fiddle with my other equipment and still not miss that sneaky old Wiley from slipping up on our poor unsuspecting FoxPro when Instalert is on.
Therein lies the strength of the Instalert. That RED blob moving on the black, gray, and white viewing screen of the FLIR is so easy to detect even with a distracted hunter with a wandering eye and 20 other things to steal his attention that he/she is unlikely to miss it...
That's my case I'm making fellow hunters... If I'm way off base please enlighten me. If you agree let me know and why. I'm here to learn and not show how smart I am.
Thanks for all your comments in advance.
$bob$
