Thread: Thermalling deer

"Infra red may not be in a humans' visible spectrum, but that doesn't change the fact that it light"

yep

"eye sight" diffrence im talking about sun shines light down hits objects bounces off it and then hits our eye and we can see everything that light bounces off of and where there is no light we see "black"

infared is the imiting of infared waves or "heat waves" from a object that is then decoded by a computer program to give an image in ur view finder , we are not use to this we are use to seeing everything infront of us as we have our hole life so when you looking at a montain face and you see nothing on it in a thermal you think theres nothing there as is in your nature, but if there was any number of things there but they where the same tempreture as the montain face they are invisable to you witch is not in ur nature to assume, just feel like its a spot you could get i trouble in

looked at some you tube fotage of the pulsar q50??? shows hole tree lines just being black blobs soo unless your running alot higher resolution than 640x i dont think theres enough definition there yet

im not saying there not great tools i just think making shots through them is slightly breaking the identify your target rule and on private land where you know the lay of the land and there should be no one there that compensates for this but on public land where people could be anywhere it is a danger but there illegal anyway so what does it matter


speaking of deer cheating, do any of you use those HEC's suits noticed anything diffrent?

Originally Posted by 1justin

"Infra red may not be in a humans' visible spectrum, but that doesn't change the fact that it light"

yep

"eye sight" diffrence im talking about sun shines light down hits objects bounces off it and then hits our eye and we can see everything that light bounces off of and where there is no light we see "black"

infared is the imiting of infared waves or "heat waves" from a object that is then decoded by a computer program to give an image in ur view finder , we are not use to this we are use to seeing everything infront of us as we have our hole life so when you looking at a montain face and you see nothing on it in a thermal you think theres nothing there as is in your nature, but if there was any number of things there but they where the same tempreture as the montain face they are invisable to you witch is not in ur nature to assume, just feel like its a spot you could get i trouble in

looked at some you tube fotage of the pulsar q50??? shows hole tree lines just being black blobs soo unless your running alot higher resolution than 640x i dont think theres enough definition there yet

im not saying there not great tools i just think making shots through them is slightly breaking the identify your target rule and on private land where you know the lay of the land and there should be no one there that compensates for this but on public land where people could be anywhere it is a danger but there illegal anyway so what does it matter


speaking of deer cheating, do any of you use those HEC's suits noticed anything diffrent?

You look at a youtube vid, and you know everything there is to know about thermal. Unlike you, I happen to own one, a rather good one, and I disagree with you. The internet has made everyone an expert.

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

You look at a youtube vid, and you know everything there is to know about thermal. Unlike you, I happen to own one, a rather good one, and I disagree with you. The internet has made everyone an expert.

But But I've just gotten me popcorn

1justin, you seem to be of the impression that you eyes cannot lie to you but an electronically generated image can. Unfortunately you are far from correct. Perhaps you should do some reading on how your brain interprets the images detected by your eyes.

It is very common for your brain to "fill in" parts of the picture with what it expects to see based on past experience, so what you think you are seeing is not necessarily what is there. I work in an industry where this phenomenon has unfortunately killed a lot of people over the years.

You cannot shoot through the Pulsar XQ50 - it is a handheld monocular device, and not rifle mounted. At some stage you need to put it down, locate and identify your target and then shoot it with your rifle.

I doubt you could ever be 100% certain there is not someone in the bush behind the animal you are shooting at without walking over and taking a look, but this is not how the majority of hunters get shot. Predominantly they are shot by another member of their own party after having separated during a hunt. For this reason my son and I NEVER separate, and we only carry one rifle between us.

Despite how topical it seems to be, I have never heard of anyone being shot by mis-identification through a thermal imager. The same cannot be said for mis-identification via your supposedly infallible eyesight.