Head Count

[retrieverman]

I picked up a Pulsar Thermion XQ35 thermal scope yesterday and plan to sit out in the back pasture tonight to see what I can see. I watched deer from the porch last night, and this thing is cool.
I was asked why I put the scope on this gun instead of a bolt gun or semi auto, and there was a method to my madness. First off, the gun is super accurate, and I love the caliber and hunting with it. Secondly, Blasers have a mounting system that allow optics to be removed and reinstalled with 100% return to zero, and I really didn’t want to dedicate a gun to a scope that will probably get limited use.

 

[retrieverman]

Wasn’t necessarily the target species, but I drew first blood using the thermal.
I also saw 10 deer. I may be too old for night hunting, because I kept dozing off.

 

[AER244]

I lack the cool rig, but I did something similar. I saw no less than 7 and no more than 9 coyotes on a quarter tonight. Tonight was the first time I’ve seen a coyote in a tree. I didn’t see it go up, but I watched it come down from about 8-9ft off the ground, I thought it was a giant raccoon at first.

 

[dennishoddy]

My mind is blown. How high and what kind of tree did you see this yote climb?

 

[AER244]

It is an unusually grown willow that has a fair amount of horizontal growth, but it had to crawl 6+ feet up to get to that. I kept hearing it howl right next to me but couldn’t find it. I finally heard bark falling when it climbed down. I looked over and all I could see was tail against the sunset and thought it was a trophy raccoon, then it got down and ran into some Bermuda where I could see it. Then I looked to my right and had another yote about 20ft from me, so I shot that one.

 

[retrieverman]

With acorns falling, I haven’t seen any pigs in weeks, but I’ve been getting multiple coyotes on camera every night. There’s three less now.

 

[dennishoddy]

Awesome! Congrats!