Tex Burnett
New Member
I grew up in San Antonio in the 50s and early 60s, Southcross, Keystone and Alamo Heights/Olmos Park. Summers were split between riding fence and putting out salt blocks at one of Copeland's ranches and taking courses at College Station.
Them my degrees at UT/Austin; four years, three months and ten days in the Marine Corps (Viet-Nam '67-'69) and a career in Los Angeles as a Deputy Sheriff/Forensic Scientist (which looks sexy on TV, but isn't).
Now I'm retired, old, busted up and tired. I can't brush-pop anymore. I still shoot feral pigs when I see one in my yard, but excitement to me now is blue-water fishing because I don't have to walk there and back.
Local Hawaiians chase pigs down with dogs and knives. Seriously. I saw a sixteen year-old girl's camera footage. She got bored, loaded her boyfriend's dogs in the truck and caught a pig which she killed with a knife, butchered, and carried out half a mile. I don't like that because their dogs get killed quite often.
I came to this forum because I miss Texas although I'll never get back there; and because I was looking for inexpensive thermal scopes and y'all seem to have the best reviews and advice an occasional used one for sale.
Silly as this sounds, my problem is with mongoose during the day and rats at night. I have a couple hundred ducks running around this place and some chickens and geese. Hawaii has a feral mongoose problem as well as being overrun by Norwegian rats. Both of them want to kill the birds. Mongoose are diurnal. I can use a 10-22 on them during the day but the rats are nocturnal and, surprisingly to me, so are the ducks and geese. I can see heat blobs running around at night with an OLD imager but I can't identify them.
I need to be able to differentiate between a baby duck and a rat at night in the rain from about 20 feet to ~30 yards and shoot the rat. I don't have $10k laying around to spend on it. It's going on a 10-22. It doesn't have to be exotic.
I'm not asking for anything free - All I need is a good price for a simple, reliable, short-range thermal scope. Any assistance is appreciated.
Best Regards
Semper Fi
Please honor our lost warriors tomorrow on Memorial day - and every day.
Dr. Thomas C (Tex) Burnett
UT/Austin B.S., M.S, PhD.
A&M (3 summers)
USMC '66-70
LASD (ret)
NRA Instructor/ life member since 1962
Them my degrees at UT/Austin; four years, three months and ten days in the Marine Corps (Viet-Nam '67-'69) and a career in Los Angeles as a Deputy Sheriff/Forensic Scientist (which looks sexy on TV, but isn't).
Now I'm retired, old, busted up and tired. I can't brush-pop anymore. I still shoot feral pigs when I see one in my yard, but excitement to me now is blue-water fishing because I don't have to walk there and back.
Local Hawaiians chase pigs down with dogs and knives. Seriously. I saw a sixteen year-old girl's camera footage. She got bored, loaded her boyfriend's dogs in the truck and caught a pig which she killed with a knife, butchered, and carried out half a mile. I don't like that because their dogs get killed quite often.
I came to this forum because I miss Texas although I'll never get back there; and because I was looking for inexpensive thermal scopes and y'all seem to have the best reviews and advice an occasional used one for sale.
Silly as this sounds, my problem is with mongoose during the day and rats at night. I have a couple hundred ducks running around this place and some chickens and geese. Hawaii has a feral mongoose problem as well as being overrun by Norwegian rats. Both of them want to kill the birds. Mongoose are diurnal. I can use a 10-22 on them during the day but the rats are nocturnal and, surprisingly to me, so are the ducks and geese. I can see heat blobs running around at night with an OLD imager but I can't identify them.
I need to be able to differentiate between a baby duck and a rat at night in the rain from about 20 feet to ~30 yards and shoot the rat. I don't have $10k laying around to spend on it. It's going on a 10-22. It doesn't have to be exotic.
I'm not asking for anything free - All I need is a good price for a simple, reliable, short-range thermal scope. Any assistance is appreciated.
Best Regards
Semper Fi
Please honor our lost warriors tomorrow on Memorial day - and every day.
Dr. Thomas C (Tex) Burnett
UT/Austin B.S., M.S, PhD.
A&M (3 summers)
USMC '66-70
LASD (ret)
NRA Instructor/ life member since 1962