Ken, nice description. I can envision your property, modified by my own experience. It sounds very nice. It's amazing the things you can see with a thermal viewer. You can see the heat leaves out of the house, how much diesel or propane is in the tank, and oh yeah critters, lots of creatures. Hunter
Ken, that Zeus Thermal sounds amazing and with a very clear view! Just need the yotes to get into the line of sight, will happen! Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁!
Quote from: ranchibi on November 24, 2022, 10:14:13 PMKen, that Zeus Thermal sounds amazing and with a very clear view! Just need the yotes to get into the line of sight, will happen! Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁!Thanks Randall. Right now, it's handheld. It's on a QD mount so easily remounted. Don't want any confusion that LEO might think I'm hunting with it at night. I was just amazed that the deer are going several hundred yards from the wood line out into a bare hay field to feed on a few acorns. The third night those 3 deer just layed down in the hay field that was cut and baled a month ago. I guess they felt more secure and can see 300 yds or more for any approaching danger.
Quote from: customcutter on November 25, 2022, 11:36:18 AMQuote from: ranchibi on November 24, 2022, 10:14:13 PMKen, that Zeus Thermal sounds amazing and with a very clear view! Just need the yotes to get into the line of sight, will happen! Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁!Thanks Randall. Right now, it's handheld. It's on a QD mount so easily remounted. Don't want any confusion that LEO might think I'm hunting with it at night. I was just amazed that the deer are going several hundred yards from the wood line out into a bare hay field to feed on a few acorns. The third night those 3 deer just layed down in the hay field that was cut and baled a month ago. I guess they felt more secure and can see 300 yds or more for any approaching danger.Welcome Ken! Yeah, it is not normal for deer to be out in the open like that! They must have known something we didn't...LOL! By the way, was up at a friends place last week (he lives up in the mountains) I left his place @ 7:15am (to miss Los Angeles traffic, still caught some 😢) driving down the hill amd there were a group of 5 deer on the left feeding then I looked up and 30yds in the middle of the road back lit by the rising sun was a HUGE BULL ELK....could see the steam from his mouth. I stopped about 20yds away and watched, he stood there for a few seconds then slowly sauntered off to the right, National Geo stuff! Ha!
Quote from: ranchibi on November 25, 2022, 11:37:21 PMQuote from: customcutter on November 25, 2022, 11:36:18 AMQuote from: ranchibi on November 24, 2022, 10:14:13 PMKen, that Zeus Thermal sounds amazing and with a very clear view! Just need the yotes to get into the line of sight, will happen! Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁!Thanks Randall. Right now, it's handheld. It's on a QD mount so easily remounted. Don't want any confusion that LEO might think I'm hunting with it at night. I was just amazed that the deer are going several hundred yards from the wood line out into a bare hay field to feed on a few acorns. The third night those 3 deer just layed down in the hay field that was cut and baled a month ago. I guess they felt more secure and can see 300 yds or more for any approaching danger.Welcome Ken! Yeah, it is not normal for deer to be out in the open like that! They must have known something we didn't...LOL! By the way, was up at a friends place last week (he lives up in the mountains) I left his place @ 7:15am (to miss Los Angeles traffic, still caught some 😢) driving down the hill amd there were a group of 5 deer on the left feeding then I looked up and 30yds in the middle of the road back lit by the rising sun was a HUGE BULL ELK....could see the steam from his mouth. I stopped about 20yds away and watched, he stood there for a few seconds then slowly sauntered off to the right, National Geo stuff! Ha!Wow! Definitely a National Geographic Moment! I had wanted to hunt elk my whole life, and finally got the chance a few years ago. I planned on staying for the whole archery season, but had to return home after only a week. I thought it was elevation sickness, I was at 11,000 ft vs sea level. It got worse after I got home. I thought maybe it was due to the wildfires in California, as I was in Colorado and it was hazy most days. It continued to get worse, just a dry hacking cough, and I couldn't do anything. It went on for 2 years, I told multiple Doctors/Nurses about it. If the A/C wasn't on 72*, or if I went outside and tried to do anything I sounded like a 5 pack a day smoker. I would cough for 30-45 minutes or longer, even pulled muscles in my ribs. I became a couch potato and I wound up gaining almost 70#'s in 2 years. Turned out it was Lisinopril a blood pressure medication the Dr's started me on just before I went out to Colorado. I finally looked up the side effects of all my medications and found it. I stopped taking it and 7 days later my cough stopped. I've lost 40#'s and trying to become active again, it's been a struggle, but finally getting better.
Ken,I didn't want to comment, but I see that you hijacked your own thread, so here goes.I had the same nagging cough after taking lisinopril for a couple of years. I told my doctor during my annual exam, he said "That's a common side effect of lisinopril.".He prescribed a different medication. I have lost weight, and no longer take any meds.Randall,I kept notes about everything for one year, anything at all. I walked every day. I found that if I take vitamin B complex every day, after a week or so the cramps subside.Thermal:Yeah, most cows try to find a hiding place to calve, but some will drop in the middle of the herd.Nature is amazing!Hunter
Of the many pieces of tech gear I own, I get the greatest joy from using my thermal gear! Maybe because I know intimately how the other gear works, but I know much less about thermal detection.Glad you find as much wonder as I do with the little things around us, that thermal amplifies 1000 times over!