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I feel like it’s easier to look at rainbow for long periods, but black hot seems to look the best. That’s about 120 yards and as good as the focus gets. The bunnies were right at sunset and the image seems to be getting better as it cools down. A coyote came and I could see the tail and also horns on a buck, but it’s not exactly ideal.

Deer look much better than bunnies. V_20241208184621182.mov

I mounted the AGM and sighted it in on an AR10 and AR15 today and I’m currently sitting in the blind watching bunnies and waiting for a pig to show up. My first impression is I wish I’d gotten a 640 resolution, but we will see how a bigger animal looks. V_20241208180340491.mov

I’m in Mexico and this guy is modeling at lunch time in front of my camera.

Damn.

I thought I missed this one from 110 yd, but he only ran about 20 yards on a neck shot and dropped. I love a good Travis County low fence 8 point.

Walked around the neighborhood trails and found a doe and a fox to watch. The pics don’t look as good as I saw in person and you would definitely need to trigger with the app instead of the buttons for better clarity. But holy crap, I would have never seen either of these without the thermal even with the moon tonight. It’s incredible.

Carrots, beets, lettuce, endive, mustard, fennel and kohlrabi are all thriving. I had to put up some netting to keep the deer away and just transplanted a ton more spinach, cauliflower and rapini today.

I’d keep watering the blackberries until it frosts and kills the leaves. Weird that apparently it will be December before that happens, but mine are alive and thriving right now.

Thanks again for this recommendation. I listened to quite a few podcast episodes and then called Jason and talked through digital night vision before settling on the AGM Rattler V2 TS35-384. These guys are really working to earn business and I was very happy to buy from them. I think I’ll probably get more use out of this thing as a hand held for looking at things around the house, night boating, looking for downed animals, etc.

It’s freaking great, I loved it. but I love this 12 year single barrel just a bit more.

Classic little Travis County 8 point coming in pretty regularly. Also one 9/10 that I haven’t gotten a good pic of yet. I swear the cell game cam pics are my favorite phone activity during the season.

Yeah, frost will smoke them but when it goes to seed you can get another round in during fall by planting them. You can also throw them in pots if you want to mess with bringing them into the garage.

My winter garden is mostly planted, a combination of direct seeding and starts in pots that I’m keeping in partial shade because it’s so hot. I’m going to keep planting and see if I can make a succession of veggies for the winter. So far I have: Snap peas, snow peas, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, fennel, red beets, golden beets, two kinds of carrots, three kinds of radish, endive, three kinds of lettuce, arugula, dill, cilantro, basil, green onions, chives and a few Cherokee purple tomatoes I started in mid summer.

I love a good shitbox convo. What about an S2000? You could probably get a driver grade higher mileage one for mid teens and that transmission is about the sweetest shifting piece on god’s green earth. Nothing ever broke on the one I had and consumables like brakes and tires are very inexpensive. You could also get a 2.0 manual trans Cadillac ATS in the mid teens. I’ve only driven a V but it’s a very competent chassis if a little boring on the motor. If you’re city parking it then I’d avoid anything that you see in street takeover vids. The G35/37 is the king in those other than Chargers and Challengers.