JAGER PRO™ Thermal Hog Hunting (1)- Rifle Leads on Moving Targets (at Night)

Watch this Master Class shooter from JAGER PRO hit running hogs with a .308 Browning semi-automatic rifle at night through a thermal scope. He will demonstrate the proper leads necessary to hit moving targets at various angles and distances in slow motion. Hog hunting at night is a population control measure in the crop damaged fields of SW Georgia. Thermal Hog Control- www.jagerpro.com

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Sports

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• JAGER
• PRO
• hog
• hunting
• night
• Georgia
• boar
• .308
• rifle
• thermal
• feral
• control

[iPodGaming]

This video was rather interesting, but I have a question. Since I'm not really into this all business, I saw the maximum fire range in this video you shot at was 15 yards. Is that the limit of the rifle/scope? Or just a persional refferance?

[JAGERPRO]

@iPodGaming- The longest shot on this video was 150 yards using a 320 x 240 resolution thermal scope with a 65mm lens. Maximum detection range with this scope is 600 yards and maximum recognition range is around 300 yards. This means you can see a thermal signature of something at 600 yards but you need to be inside 300 yards to properly identify the animal as a feral hog, deer or coyote. Inexperienced night hunters cannot properly identify their target when using substandard thermal equipment.

[Psych0Zach]

Thermal Cameras have color. Why is the ground dark? Is everything above the horizon white? What's the temperature of the environment?

[JAGERPRO]

@Psych0Zach- Some thermal cameras are manufactured to produce color, but not thermal rifle scopes. Thermal technology works by capturing the upper portion of the infrared light spectrum which is emitted as heat by objects. Hot objects such as body heat emit more of this light than cooler objects like trees. When viewed in a gray scale, hot objects appear white and cooler objects appear black. This technology works best at night since a hog's body temperature is 102 degrees.

[JAGERPRO]

@DieWalrossen- Poor pigs? Why is it always a young gamer making ignorant comments about a subject you know absolutely nothing about? American farmers lose millions of dollars in crop damage annually to these invasive species. Another threat is the transmission of pseudorabies and swine brucellosis to domestic pork. Feral hogs are invasive species. They are pests; just like flies, termites, rats and roaches. I'm sending a PM to educate you about the feral hog problem as it relates to agriculture.

[JAGERPRO]

@salvoben2- All of the harvested pork is either processed by our guest hunters or donated to local families and churches. We wish we could donate this meat directly to local food banks to feed the homeless and needy families, but is not allowed by federal regulations due to liability with swine brucellosis and pseudorabies. This is the reason it is so important to thoroughly cook wild pork to 170 degrees before eating it.

[JVinny762]

Very impressive shooting! These guys are way too over populated keep it up

[skatefed]

do yo eat these guys?

[JAGERPRO]

@MERCURHILLMANIAC- This vanadium oxide, 384 x 288 thermal scope costs $14,700. There is no reason to shoot a heavy recoiling caliber such as a .338 magnum on feral hogs. We have harvested over 5,000 in the past few years using .308 caliber DPMS and Remington R-25 semi-automatic rifles while shooting 180-grain Nosler Partition and 178-grain Hornady A-Max bullets. All you need is a .308 caliber semi-autmatic rifle for high-volume hog control.

[yusafzai08]

Excellent work gents, regards from Pakistan

[STomicat]

Nice Videos! Greating from the hungarian hunters!

[Psych0Zach]

@JAGERPRO So the ground was colder than the sky and the sky was colder than the animal?

[iPodGaming]

@JAGERPRO 600 yards? That's pretty impressive. I understand... So if it's as far as 600 yards, all I'll see is just a white mark, and I won't recognize, thanks for the quick reply!