Thread: Thermal gear. Should we have it?

I know some Bowhunters who actively use thermal gear to locate the animals they are going to stalk after. Does it makes them more efficient? Yes, they see way more game and time spent in the bush is more efficiently spent. But they still have to stalk their prey down to under the 30 ish meters with out being detected by smell, noise or sight . The stalking and the killing is still as hard and challenging as before.
I think most hunters hunt to fill up the freezer and give a bit of meat to their close friends. If you were to shoot one animal per month and bring back most of the meat, you would probably have more than enough to eat and might actually be fed up of eating venison every day.
For them using a thermal might help bring the bacon faster at home but once their freezer is full then what? They are not going to go and kill more to let the meat get waisted. So the quantity of animals harvested will probably stay the same.
There might be some guys out there who enjoy just killing stuff And bragging on how many they shot in one week or one year. They might be using thermals to do that.They are not the kind of people who impresse me much and for some of the few I have met over the years, some have gotten sick of shooting that much and are turning to a different style of hunting, photography or other activities.
And what to say of hunters who use indicating dogs? Are you going to blame them for having the potential of shooting 2 or three times what the average hunter get? Hell no, they put a huge amount of time and effort to train a dog, pay the food and vet bills and other expenses, and they get rewarded for it. And again, once they fill the freezer, then what?

At the end of day, it is up to each individual to set up the rules of their on game when deciding to pursue an animal. Can they look themselves in the mirror after what they did is the question.