Thermal: seeing through the darkness
No matter what hobby or sport you participate in, there are always new products coming to the marketplace. Some bits of kit are gimmicks but others are genuinely innovative and enhance your capabilities. When I started in the deer management industry in the late 1990s, sound moderators were just coming in, bringing many benefits to both the shooter and the quarry. One notable impact was that it reduced the herding of deer, which happened when they heard the shot and panicked.
Since then, I can think of only two changes in stalking equipment that have really improved what we do. The first is the development of modern shooting sticks, from a single hazel pole, to twin
