Night Vision Night time Crossbow fun

[twobit]

Hello all,

Killing time while holed up at the ranch and staying away from people. Not much fun but certainly getting some well needed chores and jobs done.

Several years ago when I began to get into night hunting of hogs and coyotes I purchased both a thermal scope for one rifle setup and an IR viewer to fit in front of a daytime scope on another rifle. Both options have worked well for me but i do truly enjoy archery hunting for hogs more challenging and fun. I tried various push button lights to attach onto my compound bow and optional light to mount above the daylight scope on my crossbow. Then I had an idea! I took my crossbow to my local gunsmith and asked if he could cut a custom length rail for it so that the IR viewer would fit in front of the daylight scope. A few weeks later he called and Ta Da!! Combined with an IR illuminator on top this is just the most slick setup for very quiet shooting while seated at a feeder. IT also works very well on coyotes when hunting over a previously killed hog carcass. But you can not have the viewer on the rail and go bouncing around on an ATV.

Michael

 

[CTM1]

Very cool. Some years back someone posted a PVS14 behind a RD along with a TNVC Torch on a Crossbow.

 

[07jkjeeper]

Oh I bet that’s fun!! Nice setup

 

[twobit]

Sorry for the terrible photo. This is the result on one October evening. Two single hogs wandered in about 5 minutes apart to the feeder I was sitting at about 20 feet up in a big oak tree. You can see the two crossbow bolts on the ground where they had gone thru the hogs and hit the ground. I sit just about 30 yards from the feeder. Notice the immediate large blood spot near the arrow to the right. That hog went 14 yards and fell over dead. The other hog went 25 yards and died. IT is a great setup and with the illuminator makes it look like daylight hunting.

Michael