Dave and I hunted the trough between two storm fronts. It wasn't a big window and we figured we would have about four hours with which to work and also figured the hogs would be out after the first storm. They were. With a bit more time and without a second storm driving us off the hunting grounds, I think we would have gotten on more (we saw them out on several properties we don't hunt), but that is how it goes.
Conditions were pretty awful for thermal. While the animals stood out against the background, everything in the background (trees, grass, etc.) had cooled to just about the same temperature and just looked gray. All this was made worse by a light mist that was falling as fog began to set in on us.
We pulled up at the south gate and scanned this property and saw a sounder in the NW corner of the field, but they were slowly moving east. Playing the light winds, we came in making a large arc and to the NW corner to follow them east and then ran out of time when they came to the next tree-lined cross fence...
Last week, I had a couple of malfunctions that turned out to be from being overgassed. A couple of adjustments to the adjustable gas block and the issue was resolved. Unfortunately, this week, Dave had issues. Some of the honking you hear in the video is verbal maintenance be applied.
Conditions were pretty awful for thermal. While the animals stood out against the background, everything in the background (trees, grass, etc.) had cooled to just about the same temperature and just looked gray. All this was made worse by a light mist that was falling as fog began to set in on us.
We pulled up at the south gate and scanned this property and saw a sounder in the NW corner of the field, but they were slowly moving east. Playing the light winds, we came in making a large arc and to the NW corner to follow them east and then ran out of time when they came to the next tree-lined cross fence...
Last week, I had a couple of malfunctions that turned out to be from being overgassed. A couple of adjustments to the adjustable gas block and the issue was resolved. Unfortunately, this week, Dave had issues. Some of the honking you hear in the video is verbal maintenance be applied.
