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Sionyx Aurora Camera - early morning hunter encounter raw video

sureshotscott

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I like to dabble in night vision tech, but have not gone whole hog and purchased a PVS-14 and all the cool related toys. I did pick up a Sionyx Aurora to play with since the price point is tolerable.

This morning I made the mistake of hunting too close to the parking lot--have a trailcam set up on this spot where deer are typically moving from food to bedding across a small stream that leads to a marsh. I'm set up on the edge of where big woods meet marsh, and had a couple guys come up thru the woods behind me. At a certain point (about 2:10 into the video) I gave them a whistle and hit my light. They shortly decided to go back the way they came.

This Aurora camera might have some applications for the self-filming crowd. The quality isn't great but this was in very poor light conditions. The Aurora has 3 settings: day, twilight, and night. This was captured in night setting.

 
That was pretty decent NV for how dark it is. Man those guys must not have been hunters... sweeping their lights all around like that and acting like they didn't know where they were going. When I'm walking to and from my stands, most often I don't even use a light. If you let your eyes adjust the latent predator in all of us comes to our eyes and I can typically see quite well. If I must use a light, I have a three phase streamlight headlamp that shows two intensity levels of green and then white light for tracking. I keep the light pointed down and move slowly but deliberately to my location.

I have a CO-MR (Clip-on -Medium Range) DNV from Armasite-Flir and I also have their Vampire. Both are pretty decent for Digital NV. the CO-MR is Gen II whereas the Vampire is Gen 1 but approaches Gen II quality. These are telescopic NV sights I use for coyote hunting. I would love Thermal or the PVS-14 level NV that the military uses but like you, I agree the prices are abhorrent.
 
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