Thread: Thermal Optics under scrutiny?

Thought of a VERY valid point about positive ID that hasn't been mentioned and is very much a real thing,I hunt with two fellas who have it. There is a proportion of the population who are to varying degrees red -green colourblind. Brown is in there too. Can't see bright red razzle dazzle paint sprayed on green grass,a Reddy brown deer,rabbit,that against a green background is infuriatingly frustrating to point out to these fine folks. The rest of us can see it plain as day.. just like the smear of green shit on meat.The simply cannot see it.no contrast between the different colours. Now a thermal handheld won't help with the Pooh's on the yummy bits,but it sure as God made little green apples will make finding bit of real-estate something live is in easier to locate. On same vein a camoclad hunter standing on bush/scrub edge with similar shade of vegetation behind and around then disappears for all of us. Not so if using thermal.the contrast of colour or shade aren't there but temperature is. So if Billbob is doing a sneak up on deer to poke a Broadhead through its ribs and is thirty yards away,meanwhile Danny is four hundy away about to set up his latest longer range venison slayer on same animal,if he happened to look through thermal,the two legged glowing blob of sweaty excited taxidermist should stick out like doggies danglies. Instead of a potential fatality or very pissed of in close hunter,Danny goes,fook that was close...and scans somewhere else for venison....billbob might look cuddly but I'm sure he wouldn't go well in a casserole and the mum in law definately would frown if put on BBQ.