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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SLE" data-source="post: 477377" data-attributes="member: 3889">Anyone that's looked through a thermal at night can see a discerning difference between a person and a coyote. Hell, you can tell the difference between a coyote and a badger or a racoon for f' sakes. This has other issues written all over it. The hunter (and I use that word lightly in this case) obviously didn't identify his target (or did  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ) and didn't go up to check his kill or animal after the shot. I would have to expect there was movement after the shot which you can also clearly see in a thermal and should be able to tell if it was an animal or human. He may have seen a heat blob in the scope and taken a long distance shot and got lucky, but thermals aren't exactly long range optics in terms of accuracy to start with. 500 yards would be a poke for accuracy purposes with one. The one thing I took away after spending some time behind a thermal was that it was very hard to tell whether the target was 250 yds or 1000 yds away without the internal range finder. With that said, it was clear what are targets were at both distances.What I don't want to happen is this one off situation of some poor choices to affect using thermals for coyotes or limitations on trapping times. This wasn't a case where either of those are the problem.</blockquote>

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