I posted this on another forum a few months ago. A few days ago, it was reported that a woman not only shot a fellow hunter in the head, but recorded the shot with her ATN Thermal's SD Card.
Know your target! Positive ID of your target is an absolute necessity and that is not easy when hunting at night with thermal alone. This women was using an ATN Thermal with an SD Card digital recording device.
Use of good quality Thermal along with I2 the use your head are requirements when hunting at night.
The video should be available by a FOIA request. I would like to see it. I also want to know what unit she was using.
I have posted about this before. Positive ID of your target is required before you shoot.
"Investigators said they have seen the recording. They said an outline of something on all fours is seen in the recording.
Investigators said Young was shot in the face."
Failure of common sense, failure to positively ID the target combined with the use of inferior equipment resulted in this mans death.
It was reported be an ATN optic. No word on the model.
http://www.wyff4.com/article/shot-t...-by-womans-firearm-investigators-say/12239667
As a Hog Hunter, I often hunt in mixed environments. I am always finding deer with the Hogs. I often I'm hunting in areas that have cattle and caps mixed in with the Hogs and the deer. It is very easy to get focused on the pegs and not adequately assess the environment that is down range of the pigs. If a projectile fully penetrates the pig it will be going somewhere. You certainly do not want it to go into a cow or deer behind the pig.
Target identification is also a problem. Hogs, deer and cows that are laying down or feeding with their heads down, often look a lot alike when you first see them in the night vision or thermal units. We are legally responsible for knowing what are Target's are and probably identifying them.
Legally, we are responsible for the damage of those projectiles do. We as the shooting Community must keep that in mind while we are practicing our Sport and exercising our 2nd Amendment rights.
Let's face it, we do not want to be this guy who is getting a call from the landowner and a bill for a dead cow. Not only is it expensive, but you almost certainly will not be invited back to shoot and hunt on the landowners property.
Know your target! Positive ID of your target is an absolute necessity and that is not easy when hunting at night with thermal alone. This women was using an ATN Thermal with an SD Card digital recording device.
Use of good quality Thermal along with I2 the use your head are requirements when hunting at night.
The video should be available by a FOIA request. I would like to see it. I also want to know what unit she was using.
I have posted about this before. Positive ID of your target is required before you shoot.
"Investigators said they have seen the recording. They said an outline of something on all fours is seen in the recording.
Investigators said Young was shot in the face."
Failure of common sense, failure to positively ID the target combined with the use of inferior equipment resulted in this mans death.
It was reported be an ATN optic. No word on the model.
http://www.wyff4.com/article/shot-t...-by-womans-firearm-investigators-say/12239667
As a Hog Hunter, I often hunt in mixed environments. I am always finding deer with the Hogs. I often I'm hunting in areas that have cattle and caps mixed in with the Hogs and the deer. It is very easy to get focused on the pegs and not adequately assess the environment that is down range of the pigs. If a projectile fully penetrates the pig it will be going somewhere. You certainly do not want it to go into a cow or deer behind the pig.
Target identification is also a problem. Hogs, deer and cows that are laying down or feeding with their heads down, often look a lot alike when you first see them in the night vision or thermal units. We are legally responsible for knowing what are Target's are and probably identifying them.
Legally, we are responsible for the damage of those projectiles do. We as the shooting Community must keep that in mind while we are practicing our Sport and exercising our 2nd Amendment rights.
Let's face it, we do not want to be this guy who is getting a call from the landowner and a bill for a dead cow. Not only is it expensive, but you almost certainly will not be invited back to shoot and hunt on the landowners property.
