I was awakened at 6am by a phone call from my 14 year old daughter. She was distraught and crying and told me that she went out to feed our horse and the gate to the barn was open and she couldn’t find him. I quickly threw on some clothes and met her outside to see what was happening and she told me she was worried someone had taken him. I found this unlikely so I went back inside, removed my thermal scope from my rifle and went out to look for him. I made sure he wasn’t far out in the pasture before checking as far as possible the full 360* around our property and didn’t see him. I called the Sheriff’s department to make sure no one had reported seeing him or God forbid hit him with their vehicle and thankfully they had not.
We jumped in my truck and drove down the road where I parked across the road from our neighbor who has horses. Ours and theirs had hollered back and forth a few times when things were really still so I was hoping to find him there. No such luck but another 360* scan and he stood out like a light bulb several hundred yards west of our property near the next road over. We drove over the next road and I stopped as soon as we could see him in the headlights. Fortunately he came to my daughter when she called him and she was able to walk him back home.
All in all a big win for me and now everyone is happy that I spent the money on this thermal. Fortunately our horse wasn’t hit by a vehicle and didn’t make it to the woods another 1/4 mile farther west of us. I installed a cable to prevent him from being able to push out of the barn again so hopefully I’ll only need to use the thermal for it’s intended purpose from now on which is killing coyotes.
We jumped in my truck and drove down the road where I parked across the road from our neighbor who has horses. Ours and theirs had hollered back and forth a few times when things were really still so I was hoping to find him there. No such luck but another 360* scan and he stood out like a light bulb several hundred yards west of our property near the next road over. We drove over the next road and I stopped as soon as we could see him in the headlights. Fortunately he came to my daughter when she called him and she was able to walk him back home.
All in all a big win for me and now everyone is happy that I spent the money on this thermal. Fortunately our horse wasn’t hit by a vehicle and didn’t make it to the woods another 1/4 mile farther west of us. I installed a cable to prevent him from being able to push out of the barn again so hopefully I’ll only need to use the thermal for it’s intended purpose from now on which is killing coyotes.
