Guns & Outdoors Forum

I have them. Seem to be growing in number too. I have nearly 30 chickens and we just added rabbits. Adding guinea hens next year. I have not lost anything yet but it feels like it will be soon. What are your preferred methods of control. What calls work? Night vision or thermal? Inquiring minds want to maybe even need to know.

Much appreciated.

I use a FoxPro electronic caller and thermal. Used to use NV. Thermal is the way to go, now.

Going out for coyotes with Red is the way to go too

Very nice. Thanks for the input. You are using the Thermion scope right? I will be adding the caller very soon. I hear them a lot around dusk and I have been woken several times in the wee hours. Do you find there is a sweet spot for time of night?

Got these last night.

Zsarvashere wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 2:39 pm Very nice. Thanks for the input. You are using the Thermion scope right? I will be adding the caller very soon. I hear them a lot around dusk and I have been woken several times in the wee hours. Do you find there is a sweet spot for time of night?

I’ve heard early morning is best. Before daylight. I’ve never noticed a difference.

Cool beans.

Only one thing will give 24/7 protection.....

Dogs are on the list. We are looking at Rhodesian Ridgebacks. They are currently made out of gold so it will be a while.

Dogs wouldn’t work for us. No close herd to protect and follow around. It would have to patrol the entire ranch.

Zsarvashere wrote: ↑Tue Dec 16, 2025 12:06 am Dogs are on the list. We are looking at Rhodesian Ridgebacks. They are currently made out of gold so it will be a while.

Ridgebacks are for lion protection.

Indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IljoBhISgS8

Get a chihuahua and a red bathrobe

Ha! That’s awesome.

Zee wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 12:05 am I use a FoxPro electronic caller and thermal. Used to use NV. Thermal is the way to go, now.
IMG_7393.jpeg

Thread drift, but how are you liking the KRG Bravos? I've been eyeing one for my T3 for years...

shotgunshooter3 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 16, 2025 6:12 pm

Zee wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 12:05 am I use a FoxPro electronic caller and thermal. Used to use NV. Thermal is the way to go, now.
IMG_7393.jpeg

Thread drift, but how are you liking the KRG Bravos? I've been eyeing one for my T3 for years...

That’s my buddies. He has several of them. Cause he’s a leftie.

I’ve had an increase in activity around here the last couple months. Seems to be pretty typical for the time of year. Active times around here is also pretty typical. Just before and after sunset and just before and after sunrise.

In general, based on what I’ve been learning, the last couple of months is when pups born earlier this year start hunting on their own and dispersing. Makes sense then, that there is an increase in coyote activity. Yearlings and their parents are out looking for food.

The next couple of months is breeding time. So again, activity tends to stay high, with focus potentially shifting from hunting to breeding. Late spring into summer is when pups are born and activity decreases. Focus is more on dens and hunting to feed pups that are weaned but not able to hunt for themselves yet. Then the cycle starts over again, fall into winter and family dispersal.

I’ve also been corrupted into Foxpro and thermal. It’s the way to go, for sure.

Thanks for the info Jay.

I’ve got this one, and really like it.
https://us.dntoptics.com/products/hs635 ... -monocular

I was enabled to buy it by some dickweed jackass. I think he’s up on me on dollars we’ve “made” each other spend.

Thermals have come a long ways in the past few years, and prices on “old” technology/resolution have dropped significantly. Trickle down technology so to speak. Of course there’s a threshold for image quality, but anything 635 or so is all you need, and then some. You can get by with the lowest of around 256, AS LONG AS you NEVER look through a better scope. And 635 ain’t garage. It’s nice. I mean I watched a skunk spray at 120-ish yards with my 635 when I smacked him with my .300 BO. That’s likely sufficient…
The new ones are coming out double that resolution. You can surely count the hairs on coyote balls with those.

But in all seriousness, the low res will work. You just won’t be identifying critters at distance, and will be relying on the knowledge of their body language to determine the critter in question.


The built in ranger finder is effing amazing. And mine has a bullet drop calculator built in. Enter your load info, then once that’s done you simply push a button to range the target, and it adjusts the crosshairs by magic. So far mines spit on. Smacked 8” steel at 200 yards on the first shot.

Nice! Thanks for the info. I have a clip on Thermal, but I have a savage Hog Hunter .308 doing nothing in the safe and I might put a dedicated thermal on it. Just feeling things out and trying to get the best direction before I start spending money. I like the features of that DNT.

Do you handload?

I run Hornady 110gr V-Max in the .308s for varmints and they are awesome. Work on well shot pigs as well.

Zsarvashere wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 1:14 am Nice! Thanks for the info. I have a clip on Thermal, but I have a savage Hog Hunter .308 doing nothing in the safe and I might put a dedicated thermal on it. Just feeling things out and trying to get the best direction before I start spending money. I like the features of that DNT.

The DNT is a clip on also. My experience was meh with it, but….my setup ain’t ideal. Just doing science.