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Thanks Buddy, that's what I was looking for...

Doesn't some part of the animal have to be exposed for this thing to work? I mean if the cat is covered by limbs,leaves,vines or whatever will it be of any use? It seems like it would be best at night or in low light conditions .

I would imagine there is always some part of the cat exposed. I damn sure could've used that puppy the other day.

what kind of range does it have

The Range is impressive for big Game. Easy to spot Deer/elk several hundread yards.
It doesn't see through the brush you have to have some exposure.
For bobcats the limbs and branches can block it. but it has found one cat that we would have considered a false tree. Even with the bino's it was difficult at best to get a look at the cat.

We are currently testing a Low cost model that works with the phones to see if that's something that works good. It's definitely not the Flir but it's also not a 3,000 device either.

I look forward to getting J.C.'s Input on it we'll probably get them put on the website this week sometime, we've been really busy getting orders shipped in time to do much with getting them online. I'll keep you guys posted on the 300 dollar model and see if that works good.

Buddy

Regarding the Night vs. Day. It's thermal so that doesn't matter too much.

You'll get some reading with Stumps, Decay and such that will show up on the device, so you have to be careful to try and figure out what your looking at.

But I've found squirrels, Birds, even mice in the wood pile just playing around with it.

Buddy

Your making me Jealous!!! For 2 yrs now been wanting to get one for coon hunting. At least once if not more times every night out. End up at a tree where we just cannot see a thing. Tops of big thick pines where spotting anything in even on a bluebird day would be hard. There lies another problem. Even if we could spot one with the FLIR. It might be all but impossible to knock it out. Happens once in awhile in with big thick oaks as well. Had one this fall after a snow. That we could see the tracks of the coon going up. Just could not spot it.

I know it has been touched on. I just wonder if in these scenarios the cover would be too thick even for the FLIR??? I could take a pic of a tree like this, but I'm sure you guys know what I'm talking about.

Would take a lot of coon to pay one off, but knowing the dog is not slick would be worth it. Still hard to justify the price tag!

Flir makes many models for many applications. I saw a marine application model for 113k, i bet that one would show you if it was male or female from a mile away in a mistletoe clump!

Just looked thru the Flir for the first time. When we have high water the coons will sometimes get in some big Myrtle Trees here on my place. So I went out to check out the Flir! It showed nothing in the trees and they may have been nothing in them? It showed the dogs, horse's, even alot of red coming through their Blanket. But they do put out alot of heat. I also seen something on the ground under a tree, when I looked closer it was a pile of Horse Stuff still glowing red.
I'll check the Myrtles again a couple times while the River is up.

Varminator wrote:Just looked thru the Flir for the first time. When we have high water the coons will sometimes get in some big Myrtle Trees here on my place. So I went out to check out the Flir! It showed nothing in the trees and they may have been nothing in them? It showed the dogs, horse's, even alot of red coming through their Blanket. But they do put out alot of heat. I also seen something on the ground under a tree, when I looked closer it was a pile of Horse Stuff still glowing red.
I'll check the Myrtles again a couple times while the River is up.

Your view can be interesting!

I have found turkeys & crows roosting in trees. Plus coyotes & deer that sure think that they are hid?

I should describe the Myrtle Tree cause it only grows just a few places in the World. It's similar to the Pepper Wood Tree that grows in Northern Cal. don't know where else.
The Myrtle has leaves year around. They can be Huge, and sometimes that can favor you by looking from under up into it. Trying to look into it is harder because of the thickness of the leaves. They are also extremely limby and dense. They are 4'-8' around and fork about 8'-10' from the ground and have as many as 4 or more 20"- 30" forks that fork again and again. These type of trees should be a good test, just missing a few other trees that could also be in play for a cat hunter here.