Thread: Thermal vs NV vs Spotlight

Think Joe_90 is on the money with the thermal spotter and IR NV scope.
I run a Pard NV008 on my .22, and it's a challenge scanning an area with a minimum 6.5 x magnification in a tight orchard. Over open paddocks it's perfectly fine.

I stopped shooting some properties when I was using a spotlight, as it got the the point I was seeing no animals over a few hours. When I went to a IR NV scope, it was obvious that there were still a lot of rabbits about, albeit well aware what a spotlight meant.

Pretty sure moving up the price scale to having a thermal spotter, will also reveal a number of animals I did not see previously.