Thread: daytime thermals

Originally Posted by BRADS

Hey Ben I used one a fair bit while guiding,
I never used it in the bush as such but when out in open looking back at scrubby faces it was awesome for finding deer beded down and then being able to locate through the scope and get the clients more animals.
It wasn't so efficient in heaver Bush canopy.
You could see the below animals easy in this type of scrub/bush.


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So those animals are not too hard to see out in the open, but if they had been under the trees in the RHS of the picture would you pick them up with the thermal ok? Or does the tree canopy hide the heat too much? In my situation the ability to 'see' into that kind of cover would make a huge difference.

How far into this kind of situation could I expect to spot deer with thermal? Reasonably open crown but close-spaced trees without too much dense understorey.