I think they made a wise choice in asking you to review their products. You are out there enough to give us all a good feel for what the different cameras can pick, their range and clarity and so on. Will be interested in what products the next company offers. Take care.
Wow! I had no idea about the coyote litter size vs population correlation. Excellent images and setup on the various units looking at the same scene - very informative! CSMF
I cannot imagine a coyote with 13 pups, but apparently it happens. In the past, if I saw young with adults, it was usually 2 or 3 young and that was it. Apparently, their litters can be quite large.
Still learning it, but very happy I went with the S3 over another X-Sight 4K. I will be keeping the 4K still because it has certain benefits, but loving the S3. Battery life is the only downfall, but there is going to be a trade off for it being such a compact and lightweight package.
I hope you would be impressed with the s3, I got one on what I thought was a recommendation in a previous video. I love it so far, perfect for my little farm. For my ranges, heavily wooded property, it's more than good enough. Faral Texas Outdoors was great except they asked me my shirt size for Rix sweater or something and then only gave me stickers. Nice stickers I guess, but...
Thank you, sir. I didn't know the information, either. In my mind, I had it that coyotes usually have 2 or 3 young as those are the numbers of young I have seen with adults in the past. Apparently, 50-75% don't survive their first year of life.
@@martyn6792 Wolves, bears, cougars, and various birds of prey will prey upon coyotes and so will prey upon their pups as well. I would think bobcats would as well. The only problem is that there are no known wolves remaining in Texas, bears and cougars are scarce. Additional pups are lost due to abandonment such as when the parents are killed.
LOL, I feel like they run me. I have messed that up more than once in the past - 3 scopes with 3 different activation procedures (power to record), all the while hoping the game doesn't run off...which has also happened while fiddle farting trying to make things work.
I use the ST6 on my helmet paired with a Photonis 4G Echo. Recorded video on the ST6 is slightly degraded, it's much better live. This is a great review!
This is certainly a capable choice. I am not sure of the price relative to other similar helmet mountable small thermals, but the Stride ST6 does well.
Identification range is going to depend on your target, its size and shape, along with environmental conditions. What sort of targets are you talking about identifying. Keep in mind this is only 256 resolution. This is what I call a barn yard thermal, granted for a fairly large barnyard, but I would not expect you to actually "identify" much at 200 yards, though you might recognize blobs to be certain animals based on gross shape and movement, but you will be hard pressed to distinguish between a small calf, deer, and coyote, for example. You will have trouble telling playful calves from hogs. If you told me 50-100 yards, I would say to go for it. Otherwise, you are going to be struggling mentally with trying to figure out the blobular shapes you are seeing at longer range. I would strongly suggest you get the Storm S3 over the S2.
Higher or both be higher, yes. I think that would be ideal. I like to identify or confidently recognize what I am seeing before starting a long stalk after it. Technically, my rifle scope need only handle about 300 yards as that will cover 99% of shooting, but the monocular needs to see much farther. Generally speaking, the 384 resolution scopes of today will handle that very easily. I have some spots where I can see fields I hunt from over 1200 yards away. With the IR Patrol 4.5x and decent environmental conditions, I can distinguish between hog, deer, cattle, and calves. That saves me a LOT of walking or blowing off things at distance that I can't distinguish and possibly missing out on hogs. I don't feel like one should be waving their rifle around to make IDs if they don't have to. It is more dangerous, often violates safety rules, and compared to a monocular, rifles are unwieldy. My exception to this is for folks on a budget and people who hunt over feeders, small fields, etc. with a digital night vision rifle scope, but don't want to wave their rifle around to see everything. For those folks, something like the Pocket K2 is nice because it is great for detecting hot objects and is okay for identifications at shorter ranges. Also my opinion, I believe that hunters should have a thermal monocular in addition to their rifle scope (thermal or NV/DNV) for night hunting. It is just safer and more pragmatic. Thermal monoculars make it possible to spot things that night vision and digital night vision may never see, like hogs behind a tree line. Except for eye shine, it can be difficult to see a brown coyote in a brown field at distance with night vision. Thermal doesn't see color and so the camo color benefit to the coyote is lost. With that said, other people have other situations. As long as what they are doing works well for them in their situation, that is all that matters.
Sorry for the late reply, something weird is going one with me getting notified by YT. Higher res, scanner or shooter? Depends, but generally speaking I spend a lot more time behind the scanner and the spotter saves me a lot of time where I don't need to be waving around my rifle to identify things. So I would run with scanner. After that, all I need is a good enough rifle scope to shoot well at 200-300 yards (as I usually don't shoot more than that).
Great video as always! Wonder what the 3 objects the coyote passed at about 9:30, they seemed to be almost as hot as the coyote but they never moved. Maybe rocks still warm from the sun? Also the 3rd coyote didn't really seem to be phased by the opening shot, almost like it went end to end without hitting anything important.
The three objects may be mineral blocks for the livestock or something likestock related. The rancher has been dropping a round bail there every few days. On coyote 3, I thought I had missed him based on how he ran off, but I heard the smack of the impact (not always diagnostic of having hit an animal if the ground is wet, for example). However, when I looked at the slow-mo version, there is white spray and black spray with the white spray occurring first. The coyote is white hot and the ground was block cold, so the shot seemed on the mark. The bullet could have literally passed between the lungs and heart with little or no damage, but probably still hit the liver and certainly the intestines, neither of which would have resulted in an instant drop. The bullet exited, BTW, nearly being a reverse Texas Heart shot.
Ooooh, good consideration. We have jackrabbits in Montague County. I have never seen them on this property, but maybe this was a first. I have seen them a few miles north and about 15 miles south of it.
Brian thank you for your insight and hard work reviewing the rix products it gives the average Joe like me a glimpse into what is available if you are on a budget great work as always mate 👍🦘🇦🇺
I think they made a wise choice in asking you to review their products. You are out there enough to give us all a good feel for what the different cameras can pick, their range and clarity and so on. Will be interested in what products the next company offers. Take care.
And I have enjoyed my time with Rix Optics, but now I can try out some other gear. Freelancing is more my thing.
Great video Brian and thanks for all the scope info as well , thanks for sharing .
You are quite welcome, Charles!
You are the man thank you so much
Glad to help!
Wow! I had no idea about the coyote litter size vs population correlation.
Excellent images and setup on the various units looking at the same scene - very informative!
CSMF
I cannot imagine a coyote with 13 pups, but apparently it happens. In the past, if I saw young with adults, it was usually 2 or 3 young and that was it. Apparently, their litters can be quite large.
Great job explaining everything.
Well done! Rix would be wise to hire you on full time for product development.
LOL, more than anything I don't want a full time job ever again.
Still learning it, but very happy I went with the S3 over another X-Sight 4K. I will be keeping the 4K still because it has certain benefits, but loving the S3. Battery life is the only downfall, but there is going to be a trade off for it being such a compact and lightweight package.
Have you updated it where it has the rifle profiles. They changed some settings and you should get better battery life.
I hope you would be impressed with the s3, I got one on what I thought was a recommendation in a previous video. I love it so far, perfect for my little farm. For my ranges, heavily wooded property, it's more than good enough. Faral Texas Outdoors was great except they asked me my shirt size for Rix sweater or something and then only gave me stickers. Nice stickers I guess, but...
I did! Yeah, it is a quite capable little scope and very easy to use. And at that price, what a deal!
Another good video Brian and interesting coyote facts for someone not native to US
Thank you, sir. I didn't know the information, either. In my mind, I had it that coyotes usually have 2 or 3 young as those are the numbers of young I have seen with adults in the past. Apparently, 50-75% don't survive their first year of life.
@@CarpeSus any other predators that would kill young ?
@@martyn6792 Wolves, bears, cougars, and various birds of prey will prey upon coyotes and so will prey upon their pups as well. I would think bobcats would as well. The only problem is that there are no known wolves remaining in Texas, bears and cougars are scarce. Additional pups are lost due to abandonment such as when the parents are killed.
I would guess Skunk for the mystery animal based on the appearance of what looks like a tail being held straight up in the pixels.
Man, you can still run three cameras better than I can run one. Great video as always. Liking the Storm S3!
LOL, I feel like they run me. I have messed that up more than once in the past - 3 scopes with 3 different activation procedures (power to record), all the while hoping the game doesn't run off...which has also happened while fiddle farting trying to make things work.
I have enjoyed the rix optics videos. I have considered getting a storm s3 or pocket k2. Rix will probably be my next thermal because of your videos.
Thanks for watching! If you can afford the S3, get it.
I use the ST6 on my helmet paired with a Photonis 4G Echo. Recorded video on the ST6 is slightly degraded, it's much better live. This is a great review!
@fltmed Very nice...and interesting. Thank you for sharing!
Well done by Carpe Sus as always!!
I’m looking hard at the rix stride for helmet, running nox18 now but want to mount it to sbr for hogs.
This is certainly a capable choice. I am not sure of the price relative to other similar helmet mountable small thermals, but the Stride ST6 does well.
What would you say the identification range is on the s2? Where i hunt i dont really shoot over 150-200 yds.
Identification range is going to depend on your target, its size and shape, along with environmental conditions. What sort of targets are you talking about identifying. Keep in mind this is only 256 resolution. This is what I call a barn yard thermal, granted for a fairly large barnyard, but I would not expect you to actually "identify" much at 200 yards, though you might recognize blobs to be certain animals based on gross shape and movement, but you will be hard pressed to distinguish between a small calf, deer, and coyote, for example. You will have trouble telling playful calves from hogs.
If you told me 50-100 yards, I would say to go for it. Otherwise, you are going to be struggling mentally with trying to figure out the blobular shapes you are seeing at longer range.
I would strongly suggest you get the Storm S3 over the S2.
In your opinion, would you get a higher resolution hand held scanner or your actual thermal scope?
Also, very cool info on yote pup information!
Higher or both be higher, yes. I think that would be ideal. I like to identify or confidently recognize what I am seeing before starting a long stalk after it. Technically, my rifle scope need only handle about 300 yards as that will cover 99% of shooting, but the monocular needs to see much farther. Generally speaking, the 384 resolution scopes of today will handle that very easily.
I have some spots where I can see fields I hunt from over 1200 yards away. With the IR Patrol 4.5x and decent environmental conditions, I can distinguish between hog, deer, cattle, and calves. That saves me a LOT of walking or blowing off things at distance that I can't distinguish and possibly missing out on hogs.
I don't feel like one should be waving their rifle around to make IDs if they don't have to. It is more dangerous, often violates safety rules, and compared to a monocular, rifles are unwieldy.
My exception to this is for folks on a budget and people who hunt over feeders, small fields, etc. with a digital night vision rifle scope, but don't want to wave their rifle around to see everything. For those folks, something like the Pocket K2 is nice because it is great for detecting hot objects and is okay for identifications at shorter ranges.
Also my opinion, I believe that hunters should have a thermal monocular in addition to their rifle scope (thermal or NV/DNV) for night hunting. It is just safer and more pragmatic. Thermal monoculars make it possible to spot things that night vision and digital night vision may never see, like hogs behind a tree line. Except for eye shine, it can be difficult to see a brown coyote in a brown field at distance with night vision. Thermal doesn't see color and so the camo color benefit to the coyote is lost.
With that said, other people have other situations. As long as what they are doing works well for them in their situation, that is all that matters.
Sorry for the late reply, something weird is going one with me getting notified by YT. Higher res, scanner or shooter? Depends, but generally speaking I spend a lot more time behind the scanner and the spotter saves me a lot of time where I don't need to be waving around my rifle to identify things. So I would run with scanner. After that, all I need is a good enough rifle scope to shoot well at 200-300 yards (as I usually don't shoot more than that).
Great video as always! Wonder what the 3 objects the coyote passed at about 9:30, they seemed to be almost as hot as the coyote but they never moved. Maybe rocks still warm from the sun? Also the 3rd coyote didn't really seem to be phased by the opening shot, almost like it went end to end without hitting anything important.
The three objects may be mineral blocks for the livestock or something likestock related. The rancher has been dropping a round bail there every few days.
On coyote 3, I thought I had missed him based on how he ran off, but I heard the smack of the impact (not always diagnostic of having hit an animal if the ground is wet, for example). However, when I looked at the slow-mo version, there is white spray and black spray with the white spray occurring first. The coyote is white hot and the ground was block cold, so the shot seemed on the mark.
The bullet could have literally passed between the lungs and heart with little or no damage, but probably still hit the liver and certainly the intestines, neither of which would have resulted in an instant drop. The bullet exited, BTW, nearly being a reverse Texas Heart shot.
Brian..The loping action makes me think of "Rabbit". Do you have Jacks out there? bsgit
Ooooh, good consideration. We have jackrabbits in Montague County. I have never seen them on this property, but maybe this was a first. I have seen them a few miles north and about 15 miles south of it.
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Brian thank you for your insight and hard work reviewing the rix products it gives the average Joe like me a glimpse into what is available if you are on a budget great work as always mate 👍🦘🇦🇺