CliveWard

Hi Rich, No problem at all. Happy to help. It shouldn't be confusing, but that's the state of the industry where everything is better than everything else apparently. 😖 Just trust your own good judgement, eyes and properly independent advice. The FB promotional staff and shills should be discounted...but can be hard to spot. Good luck! Cheers Clive

Hi Richie, If you want magnification for long range foxing, then the cheaper T-Ceptor PRO 55-3 would be the one to go for with 6x base mag. The image quality of the target for a given magnification, poor weather performance and user experience is exactly the same as the 55-6. You just loose the wide FOV on the bottom end. This video will give you a rough idea of what you can expect to see through the 55-3, albeit the video is 1/4 - 1/2 the visible quality through the scope itself depending on the zoom level. https://youtu.be/3mtxWknT09Y In terms of pixellation when zooming, it doesn't really do it as the image is upscaled each time to the display. It never turns into 'Space Invaders' as a lot of other units do. Also if you do use digital zoom, the image is re-exposed, further enhancing target detail. Nothing else does this. It's a small, lightweight, robust unit with rock solid POI and reliability and we build them here in the UK. We've trialled bigger lenses on the platform, but it was a waste of time and would be a waste of money for our customers. Targets were bigger, but no more detailed due to the limitations of the lens material and layout of elements required for a rifle scope to maintain POI during focusing. No different to applying a little digital zoom on the 55mm lens which is already optimised for highest possible resolution. You can quite easily visually ID a fox at 450+ yards and shoot it if you can put the bullet in the right place. I'm not sure what more is needed. The image processing is hardware based on a dedicated chip, rather than the usual firmware loaded onto a microprocessor so it does an awful lot more, an awful lot faster than other thermal cores. There is no lag or delay to the image. It's not an overly expensive scope due to us manufacturing it and selling direct to the end user, but it is assembled from comparatively, very expensive components which shows in the resulting performance. Hopefully this all helps. Cheers Clive

Hi All, Getting through the back orders now on the Pard stuff, but we do have the NV008P in stock for next day delivery. Pard NV008P Night Vision Rifle Scope The new high reslution OLED display makes a big difference. Going from 6.5-13x magnification doesn't result in any pixellation in the display. Cheers Clive

Hi All, We've got the Rusan QR Pard 008 mounts in stock. A massive improvement. Rusan QR mount for Pard NV008 series. Very well made. Very rigid and adjustable for eye relief. Cheers Clive

Hi All, We are now in production of these and have released the info on our website: T-Ceptor TC1 75-3 thermal rifle scope made in UK T-Ceptor TC1 75-6 thermal rifle scope made in UK What's most exciting about these is that we are building them in house in the UK. In terms of how good they are...we had an independent group compare our WT1 against the latest XM50 Thermion and the WT1 was better. The T-Ceptor is again better than the WT1. In terms of image quality and performance, the biggest difference is the core. This is now a VOx core, still shutterless but with more sensitivity at <40mK. The lens is still F1. It is a truly professional grade core. As we know the higher the sensitivity, the better the imaging is in all conditions, so in good confitions you will see far more detail and in extreme conditions you will still make imagery of targets that other scopes just wouldn't be able to see at all. The higher sensitivity also means almost zero noise in the image produced. The core is very adjustable with auto gain compensation for foreground or background and manual gain settings. Gain and signal can be independantly adjusted as can the brightness of the OLED display. There is also adjustment for sharpness and noise reduction of you want absolutely zero noise in the image! The display is better and now using a 1024x768 OLED which the core upscales to. When zooming in there is no real pixellation, just a softening of the image. The 1024x768 has more eye relief so a little less magnification to the display which is why base mag is quoted at 5x instead of 6x. However in the menu you can set the base mag to anything you like and in the range of 5x-8x base there is no noticeable change in image quality. It is very versatile. In terms of software features it has 6 memory presets that act as completely independent profiles for zero, retical type colour and position and thermal core settings. The mount (and indeed a lot of the body) is the same as the Digiceptor and has been tested to 2.5mm repeatability at 100m so you can actually use it on as many rifles as you want without loosing zero. The mount is designed to fit a bolt action rifle, so no extra mounts or extended rails are needed. The mount is also adjustable so that the reticule can be centred when zeroing. I've done two now and managed to get both rifles zeroed with an X: co-ordinate of 0! The others have been within 5-10 clicks. It has several reticule patterns and one of these is presented as a virtual FFP reticule that gows as you zoom and can be set to a mil-hash type for ranging and hold over. The reticule can be either white or black or set to automaticly change polarity depending on the target (this is how I use mine). The scope has a mechanical power switch so start up is near instant under 3 seconds. On board power is via 2xCR123 for 5 hours run time and we also do an external battery pack / DVR combo that fits to the side of the scope to bring that up to 16 hours. Batteries in the external pack are 18650 and field re-placeable too. Cheers Clive

Hi All, This is an interesting one, and it's not something I have personally experienced. I've even got a video of a fox walking right up to me with a big aspheric IR on it at full chat. I've not noticed it either using our Ruby IR which isn't as far into the IR spectrum and has quite a bit of 'glow' from the emitter. Having said that it must be a problem elsewhere. Especially if foxes have been educated with people using a red lamp on low to scan with and pick up eyes. Assuming foxes eyesight is the same as a dog then both an IR and dim red lamp will look like a very dim, blurry grey / brown blob. We've got a couple of new models of IR now. These are laser diode based, have massive performance in a very tiny package and due to the small size of the emitter and lens system emit much less glow than an LED. We also have a variant in 940nm which is almost no signature at all. Black Sun Dark Engine standard 850nm Black Sun Dark Engine covert 940nm Even the 940nm is getting 300-400 yards happily on the Digiceptor so 200 on a Drone shouldn't be a problem. The 850nm is even better performance and with the Digiceptor is about the best Dedicated NV image I've seen. At 400 yards you can set the beam to completely fill the field of view of the scope and the camera isn't having to do any work at all. It's full illumination. Cheers Clive