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Infidel 762

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Rancher informed me that their calving season had just begun. I told her that I would come out and hunt the pasture with her newborns. These coyotes won't be feasting on any Wagyu.

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Landowner called and said a bobcat has been getting his chickens. Called in a big Tom in the wood lot behind his barn, then went out and hit some of my spots along the Cimarron river, it’s riparian land always hold cats.

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I got the opportunity to field test the Athlon Optics Cronus ATS 50-640. It got the job done;

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I took out the Athlon again for a second night. This optic would not meet my hunting style. In order to record sound you have to record from an APP on a mobile device. It lost connection and did not record one of my best stands. I like to hunt all night, however both nights the cold weather drained the batteries and I had to cut my hunt short.

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After taking this picture of the night's harvest, I decided to drive the country roads home. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision but a reminder that we often focus too much on reaching our destination and not enough on the ride itself. As the sun rose, I listened to good music and took in the views from the warmth of the truck.



Got the opportunity to test out the RIX Optics Leap L6. Got it zeroed and took it out for a test run that night.

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Here is the video from that hunt. I am itching to wear out some boot tread and put some more trigger time behind this optic.

 
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I really like the image on the RIX scope, especially looking at the price comparison. Killer hunts, great looking bobcats. Thanks for sharing the videos.
 
Yotarunner said:
Great job! As always phenomenal photos! Love the care you take in setting up the perfect shot.
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That brick building is an old church. I went down in the basement that night and saw satanic graffiti and empty liquor bottles were people had been partying.

I come across a lot more weird stuff hunting at night than I do during the day. I hunt by an old cemetery that is listed on paranormal sites as having a glowing headstone that stops glowing when you get up close to it and voices coming from an old Indian burial ground at the rear of the cemetery. I have never seen a glowing headstone but one night I was calling near it and heard voices. I went to check it out and it was some kids messing around there. I snuck up to less than 100 yards and played bobcat in heat off the foxpro. I watched them through the thermal and they all froze. I gave it a few seconds then played pup screams, they ran as fast as they could to their truck, got in backing into the ditch getting stuck in the ditch, lol. I stalked out and they never saw me… gave them something to talk about
 
That's hilarious, Jeremy. Reminds me of a story my dad told when I was a kid.

Seems that when my dad was a youngster, they lived across the road from a cemetery. This was, of course before TV so the family used to sit on their front porch in the evening to while away the time before retiring. One moonlit night, they noticed something rising from a tombstone way in the back of the cemetery. It would rise up slowly, stand for a few moments, then drop back out of sight. I can just imagine the conversation that transpired until someone finally got up the courage to venture across the road to investigate. Turns out there were several goats had gotten into the cemetery and the lighter colored ones could be seen when they stepped up on top of the tombstones to browse the lower overhanging tree limbs.
 
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