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Does this work? I do typically pleasure hunt. Thought about trying this if anyone recommended what really works. I am not sure if it is against the law or not. So don't crucify me on the responses.

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haven't tried it on coon but it would work there a pretty neat tool.

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Available at Cabella's for about $ 600 works really well, but don't buy one unless you want to know the truth about the tree's your dog is making. It will show you really quick if the coon is up there or not. "THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTIZEMENT, THIS PRODUCT NOT FOR USE IN UNITED KENNEL CLUB EVENTS". Sorry, just had to throw that in there, lol.

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I used one the other night for the first time I was totally impressed.

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They would work for this time of year until spring but would not work well or at all during the summer. The heat signature of the tree with all the leaves would hide a coon.

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I have found that my cheap Seek Reveal XR model works a whole lot better since the temp have gotten down into the 40's. It finds them now.

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The Scout works a lot better with the cool temps as well, but you can still find the coon even with the heat signature of the leaves, You just have to take a little more time and pay attention to the slight differences in color.

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I was just curious...any recommendations on the one to purchase? I live down here in Florida so leaves don't fall off the trees until.....well sometimes never. So any advantage I would certainly look into.

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After walking off a tree wondering a couple times this season and then looking back finding a coon looking at me I bit the bullet and got a Flir Scout.

It works! I'm still figuring out the bells and whistles on how to get the most out of it but my guess is that in a couple weeks I won't be wondering if my dog missed or I'm just blind.

The first night out with it there was a coon that i saw walking in and confirmed it with the Flir once I got there. I looked for 7-8 minutes with naked eye before I finally found him. If I hadn't seen it with the Flir no doubt I would have walked off thinking he'd missed it and it was in a tree behind him.

Money well spent, no more guessing. Not even cedar trees will save their butts from correction anymore.

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After walking off a tree wondering a couple times this season and then looking back finding a coon looking at me I bit the bullet and got a Flir Scout.

It works! I'm still figuring out the bells and whistles on how to get the most out of it but my guess is that in a couple weeks I won't be wondering if my dog missed or I'm just blind.

The first night out with it there was a coon that i saw walking in and confirmed it with the Flir once I got there. I looked for 7-8 minutes with naked eye before I finally found him. If I hadn't seen it with the Flir no doubt I would have walked off thinking he'd missed it and it was in a tree behind him.

Money well spent, no more guessing. Not even cedar trees will save their butts from correction anymore.

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I just tested this scope for a rifle about an hour ago and the right system does work. I mowed this field yesterday.





This one would not be used for coonhunting but would work better for hog. It is a little pricey. I looked at my dogs at about 200 yards tonight in their pens and you sure could seen them.

This unit bluetoohths the screen to your I phone so you can get pictures or video of it.

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Bruce have you tried the Flir yet?

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http://www.cabelas.com/product/FLIR...br /> CQ_st%3Db

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About a year ago I got one of the small SEEK REVEAL. Really impressed with what it does around the house but it was summer and I never really found a coon with it that I had not already seen with my light. I was hoping it would show the ones my light could not find. I woke up this morning thinking about this stuff and it is really amazing how some scopes can pick up temperature distances at over 100 yards. I saw a hog hunting show on TV that had the hog plain as day at over 300 yards.

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What month did you get it in and what were the outside temps? What one do you have? I would love to get one if it worked here in the summer. I would hunt more in the summer too.

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I have a seek model and I am not impressed. trees retain to much heat down here to be of any real use during warm to hot seasons we have in the south. I may like it better once the temp falls, but right now, I wish I had my money back.

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I have a seek model and I am not impressed. trees retain to much heat down here to be of any real use during warm to hot seasons we have in the south. I may like it better once the temp falls, but right now, I wish I had my money back.

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i got a freind that paid 3000 for one on sell and in the summer time it shows the good and the bad you be surprised at all the slick treeing i was amazed at it i learned fast i was packing a treeing fool and he was packing a coon hound if you can handle the truth use one

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What brand and model does he have?
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Do people really use these this time of yr.

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Do people really use these this time of yr.

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I just got a flir scout tk only had it out a couple of times it's is a neat toy but the heat of the tree and foliage shows I have look at Coon it was like looking at them in day light but there was no leafs have not used it enough to have it dailed in good or figure out how to dail it in really good but my guess is in the summer time or in leafs it might help sometimes but I don't think it's going to be a lot of help I would say if you spend enough money on one they would do the trick

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I just bought the new Leupold but it's the same as everyone else has described. It will find a coon or whatever pretty good as long as it's in the open. Trees heat signature blurs the images a little and makes it harder to find them but I still believe there usually is enough contrast to find them. Just makes it a little more difficult. Summer heat and leaves will be the question. If someone was dead set on wanting one for summer time use you might want to step up to a higher dollar unit. Or talk to somebody that has had one of these mid grade units during the summer already. They are still useful and fun though. I found a squirrel in the very tip top of a tree that my buddies dog treed on last night! LOL. Not sure we would have seen it otherwise and he immediately went into denial mode pointing out a small hole in the tree, I'm not so sure a coon could have got in there but I gave it to him anyway. LOL.

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I guess I didn't realize how many folks used these things and for the money they seem useless. It's seems like in the places you would really need one they wouldn't work?

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