Registered: Jul 2021
Location: Tenn.
Posts: 282

Has the thermal hype slowed down.Do they work good at finding a coon.?Any of you regret getting one.Dont hear much about them anymore.

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Registered: Jul 2025
Location: kentucky
Posts: 12

Thermals are nice but me personally I do not own one. Reason being I don't want to spend all that money for a thermal when I can still spot 90 percent of the coons I tree.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1603

Don't own one and don't need one. I was taught and learnt how to fine a raccoon when the hides were $60-$80 back in the 50's and 60's. Didn't have one then but always had a good Christmas from fur sales.

Not sure why you would pay that kind of money to find a 50 cent raccoon today??

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1603

Don't own one and don't need one. I was taught and learnt how to fine a raccoon when the hides were $60-$80 back in the 50's and 60's. Didn't have one then but always had a good Christmas from fur sales.

Not sure why you would pay that kind of money to find a 50 cent raccoon today??

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Registered: Aug 2015
Location: Vilonia Ar
Posts: 114

lol the guys pay that to find a $100,000 coon today
But for the common Man U don’t need it id like to have one for training pups especially keeps u from blowin squallers and jerkin vines on slicks I hunted with a guy one night that found a coons ear was all that was sticking up in a fork in a big tree and he found it with the thermal

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Registered: Jul 2021
Location: Tenn.
Posts: 282

Id like to see a thermal in action.This has been tough hunting this summer and fall .There was so much rain the woods are thicker than ive ever seen.The heat wont let up and you Cant hardly walk in the woods or shine a tree for the green growth.I hunt hills and Ive had to walk away from alot of trees that i simply couldnt shine for the small stuff.Thats aggravating.If i didnt have pups to train id wait until its better.I guess if you cant shine a tree you cant use a thermal anyway.

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Registered: Aug 2015
Location: Vilonia Ar
Posts: 114

Their pretty cool man if u can afford it I’d say go for it iv seen several times where u never would have found the coon without it

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Registered: Jun 2014
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 3466

My hunting buddy and I each have one. We find plenty coons that we never can see. I don't think most of you hunt in the jungles we hunt in.

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Registered: Dec 2019
Location: Salyersville Ky
Posts: 71

I would definitely say thermals are definitely a game changer for hunting. Like anything the right tools for the job will make it a lot easier, productive, and efficient. In some instances when I would think my dog may have missed or didn’t have it without a thermal, I ended up being wrong when I got one. It definitely speeds up the time at a tree spotting. But most hunter’s have different styles of hunting and different ideas on things. No matter what it is I aways say the right tools for the job makes it better. All the older men I hunt with always ask me when we go out pleasure hunting, Did you bring that thermal so we can find them? Lol. One of the hardest things with anything new is understanding it and knowing how to operate it. It took me a while the learning how to adjust it and use it for my needs. I use to be one of them that said I would never spend over a thousand dollars on hunting equipment. Now I don’t think I could hunt efficiently without it.

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Registered: Jun 2014
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 3466

It took me a while to get the settings right. For a month I was dissatisfied with it until I got it right.

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