Thread: Thermal gear. Should we have it?

Pulsar thermion are clear as you can see the hair on the deers back / see the hog taking a piss. So I would say they are safe as as long as your a proper shooter and be 100% positive of the Id and back drop they are not cheap so limits the cowboys any way.

Originally Posted by NITRO

Pulsar thermion are clear as you can see the hair on the deers back / see the hog taking a piss. So I would say they are safe as as long as your a proper shooter and be 100% positive of the Id and back drop they are not cheap so limits the cowboys any way.

They certainly seem like the next level latest and greatest alright from what research I have done. I can't justify that sort of money on one though.

Its not just cowboys that can't afford them!

Safe if the shooter identify s the the target 100%. A wallaby from the back end bending over eating is a round circle of light with no identifying features. The tail is not always visible. First the wallaby has to finish feeding and stand up before its possible to identify it. The further away an animal is the less definition there is also, until all one can see is a blob of light. Keep that in mind before pulling the trigger. A round blob of light anywhere could be anything depending on distance from the shooter and thermals are notoriously diffucult to judge distance with, unless they have a rangefinder naturally.

For example I was shooting rabbits with a backdrop of a pine shelter belt sandwiched between two fences to keep stock out of the shelter belt. There were a patch of rabbits in front of the pines and Id been moving around on a quad for a good 20 minutes shooting bout 40 rabbits as I got closer to the pines. There were some tussocks growing at intervals along the edge of the pines and a rabbit was crouching low, in the shelter belt just on the edge of a tussock, I thought. I lined it up and shot it square through the chest and went over to pick it up. Id shot the head of a resting sheep, head on the ground, inside the shelter belt, its body had been hidden by the tussock .. A number of assumption had been made, because it looked like something Id just shot forty of close to it, there should not be any stock inside the fenced in pines, its on the ground and is the right size and shape. It had a brighter for-end than the back-end like rabbits..

Assumption is the mother of all cockups. Dont become the 1st person in NZ to mistake ones target and shoot someone, with a thermal.