Disclaimer: I'm into hunting hogs at night, and everything I'm doing is 100% legal (and, in fact, encouraged!) in this state...I need tech advice, not a lecture on "poaching" or warnings about game wardens.
Here's my situation. I'm ballin' on a budget, so I have the cheapest thermal monocular imaginable for spotting and a DNT Zulus HD V2. Don't laugh, I've got kids in college...this was a splurge for me! I'm spotting animals in grass that's at times about 1-1.5' tall, and they're often showing up between a pair of cedar trees about 12' apart with rather low-hanging bushy branches. Imagine the line between the trees as a plane...if they get on my side of it, I can see them. If they stay on the other side of it, the reflection of the IR emitter off the cedar branches washes out the image. I use a rifle-mount emitter with zoom focus, but it won't zoom the beam tight enough to focus in on the area between the branches
Short of dropping a grand or so on a proper thermal scope, what's the solution here? I'm willing to get one of those security camera IR arrays and hook it up to a car battery if that would work, but I'm open to suggestions. Y'all got anything?