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As coon hunters we are blessed with different eyesight, but some hunters always find the coon a higher percentage of the time than others and especially with heavy foliage.
I have never seen a book written on it, but one could be a best seller!
So how do the BEST differ from the rest of us?

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The thing to do is buy the thermal that I sell and remove all doubt 😃

But I do agree , some are way better at finding coon then others.

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I don't think it's experience. I was better at it 40 years ago.

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I don't think it's experience. I was better at 40 years ago.

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Foremost, I want to discuss the difference between eye sight and game eye sight. Years ago I read a article on sheep hunting where a guide was telling the hunters how many rams where located on a distant mountain. One of the hunters happened to be a eye doctor and knew the guide could not possible see that far. The doctor called the guide out and demanded a explanation on how the guide came to his conclusion. The guide admitted that he definitely could not actually see the rams in question, but explained that he could see the black Dots on the snow covered mountain, the dots were the horns of the rams and by his experience he knew what the dots represented. The doctor later wrote a book that explained game vision vs eye sight itself. Game vision tell the experienced hunter things such as a horn in a thicket belonging to a buck, when the deer is hidden by the brush. Little things such as a blinking eye, a thicker spot on a tree limb, a darker area on a tree limb or fork in a tree. Game vision is being able to spot things that do not belong. Game vision is seeing things that represent the game we are looking for. Those of us that are able to find game others do not see look for little things that are out of place. A tip of a ear above a limb, a dark spot, something that is not part of the tree, or background of what we are looking at. I hope this explains why game vision is way more important that just having good eyes. We lose eyesight as we age, but game vision helps us locate game that ever better eyesight fails to locate. Dave

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I have had the opportunity to hunt with 2 of the best hunters that could find coons where others could not. If the coon was there they would find it, especially if there were no leaves on the trees. We mainly hunted in late fall, winter and early spring when the leaves were off the trees. Many times they would find the coon and then try to show the coon to other hunters in the cast to no avail. They would then shoot the coon out much to the others hunters surprise. These 2 hunters looked for little things such as a thick spot on a limb, a ear sticking above a limb, a dark spot that did not match the tree color. They knew what these little things represented. Anyone can see the whole coon or the eyes if the coon looked at them, but the little things they looked for helped them to find hidden coons that most hunters could not find. I used to squirrel hunt with dogs and you better look for little things if you expect to find many squirrels as they are matters at hiding. Learn to search for little things that do not go with the background or seem out of place if you want to developer game vision. Dave

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