Hunting animals with a thermal scope [vid]

[1911-a1]

This looks fun! Anyone tried it? I've never heard of people hunting with thermal scopes before, is it common?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EymHKsaOpRg

[FlintHillBilly]

Dang this guy must have some money to spend on a thermal scope? Not even sure whats the cheapest one on the market. Also holy crap thats alot of wild boar a whole darn herd of them. Must be fun shooting them. They any good to eat?

Ahh man they shot the "6 little pigs"

[Virus]

This looks fun! Anyone tried it? I've never heard of people hunting with thermal scopes before, is it common?



I doubt it is very common at all lol. Plus he is using the Light Thermal Weapon Sight, we had some of these. Sadly I was never able to slap it on my M4 and zero, we mainly only used them in hand held. But they are pretty damn nice, and exspensive. :D

And maybe it isn't so much "hunting," as it is culling?

[HK in AK]

That looks like some of the image they had in the show about the, "pig bomb" talking about wild boars around the world. Apparently in just 10 years, the population of wild boars has trippled to an estimated 6 million across the US. What amazed me so much was the comment that wild boars can double their population every 16 months.

My grandfather use to hunt wild boar and they thought they were good eating. I wouldn't mind trying some.

[Hollis]

Pigs, boar or Javalina? Down around Wikiup Arizona we use to hunt Javalina with pistols (.357). Then give them to some local we knew who would eat them.

I have never hunter boar........ biggies.

[Atasas]

They any good to eat?


No joke!- best tasting meat ever!

[Death.]

Two with one shot, that was cool.


I found this
http://www.opticsplanet.net/eotech-renegade-320-thermal-imaging-sight-with-digital-zoom.html

Just a little out of my price range, Haha.

[Movieman]

Hunter 2-1, herd of wild board 12 o'clock. Stay frosty.

[TJ0]

Wut, that's just stupid. Absolutely no thrill in that. I dont personally count that as hunting. Using thermal scopes and shooting a couple of dozen Hogs in a field...right
Why not shoot pigs in a piggery?

[Burntrubber87]

Wut, that's just stupid. Absolutely no thrill in that. I dont personally count that as hunting. Using thermal scopes and shooting a couple of dozen Hogs in a field...right
Why not shoot pigs in a piggery?
The video may be titled hunting, but its not..its pest control.

[2495]

Hell yeah! Get some! those little critters are so damn tasty they should hold a roast party and get a pit going.

Looks damn fun too.

[MaDuce]

Hunting boar with AC-130 would have been cooler.

[wildcat]

wow, what a way to have fun, I have the rifle, just need the scope, pigs and a place to shoot them

[2495]

Hunting boar with AC-130 would have been cooler.

Run human run! AC-130 a bit overkill for piggies. Humans far far better sport for it. p-)

[1911-a1]

Holy ****ing ****.

Sale Price
$10,599.00
for that scope they're using.

[Rakki]

11k is still cheaper than using a helicopter like they did in that other hog pest control video...

[TheSteve]

I'd hardly call that hunting.

[Fiber]

Are the wild boars really wild or pigs who have fled captivity (and mated with boars)?

[Jippo]

I'd hardly call that hunting.

Indeed.......

[homegrowncat]

Are the wild boars really wild or pigs who have fled captivity (and mated with boars)?

The pigs shown in the video either escaped from captivity or were turned loss at some point. Once in the wild these pigs reverted back to a state that isn’t truly wild, but they are not domesticated either. They are from domestic stock, but they are much different (larger, meaner and breed more) then native javilna.

The problem is that they are prolific breeders and very, very destructive. I talked to a guy from Georgia a few weeks ago who had planted a 40 acre field of wheat and within a few days they had to totally replant the field because of pig destruction.

And I agree with the previous comments regarding this video being a population control shoot and not hunting.

[ayanami_tard]

I'd hardly call that hunting.

sandbox hunting is hunting nontheless


p-)

[I can't think of a name]

IT IS PEST CONTROL

Wild Boar and their droppings can ruin farm fields. It is pest control. They have big populations.

They root around the fields and night and their dropping are not good for the crops. They are marketing the scope to farmers so they can kill off the herds easier.

[jaegermeistr]

I must say that the one that filmed this did some awsome shooting.