Bob57

As well as rhd, night vision shooting can hammer rabbit population's !!

Heard on the radio this afternoon that we've another 3 weeks lockdown, but you can drive to the countryside to take a long walk😟

Ah you see that's where you're wrong nid, as rumour has it that's just where the fly was sitting, and nobody likes a fly😁

Unfortunately I couldn't get the vid to play last night, and missed the drama this morning 😱. Anyway sounds like it was a nice long shot with a 223 ootot👍

Just got back in from testing the pard 008 with the wraith x2 850nm and I thought it would be good, works brilliant and doesn't hardly need the power turning down at all closer in, 300+ yds was well illuminated and pretty clear on 6x but you lose a bit of clarity when you zoom to 13x.

Will let you know later.

lovely 👍, I like to see a long range shot. Yep they always learn quick 😕, I blew a magpie up this evening on a dead rabbit😀, and it's mate disapeared, anyway rabbits back in the bag and there's tomorrow for that one 😃

Hi blueroll, yep it might be to much, and I thought the same when we tried it alongside the photon rt but it worked great with that when the power was turned down at closer range then really good when turned back up at long range, exept everything is small at long range with the rt and when you x up the picture gets a bit crap but it was well illuminated, we tried a pbir on the rt one night and that just whited out at all ranges. I'll try the wraith 850 x2 with the pard 008 tonight to see how it works with that.

Sorry to going off track ootot, So back to it, Have you dented any crows or rooks yet !!

Ok mate no worries, sounds like what you're doing is more important than mounts👍

Hi 17rem, I bought a LL wraith 850nm x2 for the drone, it is brilliant, has a switch which is reasonably quite compared to others, and a you can turn the power up and down to suit and avoid white out, tried it with my mate's photon rt aswell and it was really good on that also when turning the power level down. I've not tried the 940nm like blueroll, but can tell you that the wraith 850nm x2 is great , and Andy at ludicrous lumens was a pleasure to deal with, answering and replying to emails pretty much straight away, and was happy to send out mix and match parts(payed for) to send back for refund after deciding which works best😃, not that I did that as I was sure the 850nm x2 would be good for the drone, and it sure is😃

Hey kev how's the pard mounts going??

Not sure how vn140 would work in a 20-250 (could be good ?)but I used to get just shy of 4100 with 38grns of vn140 in my 22-250 with 40grn nosler b/t and great accuracy. Personally I wouldn't use vn550, if it's like vn530 I'm using at the moment in .204 Ruger with 39grn sbk's it shows a lot more pressure than single based vhit, and the quoted figures are higher than you'll get, i can't get any more speed from vn530 than vn133!!

Like the nun said to the vicar, don't polish it to much, you'll wear it out😀

About a month after saving the fallow fawn from two foxes a similar story, I was sitting in a hiseat in the dark waiting for a fox when i heard one yapping away, coming my way, two fields away in front of me, to have it go straight into the plantation on my left, I had to keep looking through the thermal spotter to find it in the narrow strip of tree's when it popped out half way along level with me, as I veiwed it through the drone it was sitting back on looking into the tree's slightly arched over with its tail straight up flagging from side to side as a set of eyes shone to its right, just inside the tree's, I thought it was another fox until a muntjac showed very annoyed at the fox, watched them for awhile, the fox wasn't backing down, so i sent it a 20cal parcel 😀 Next day when I told the keeper and said i bet fox was after its young un, he said he's got a pic of a muntjac with small fawn on his trail cam in there 😃, I wonder how many deer fawns foxes eat, must be a fair amount!! Shooting with night vision most of the time now is a real eye opener as you get to see these sort of things happening sometimes before taking the shot, which you don't have time to see when shooting with a lamp!!

They'll only be boring tales of dead foxes👍. But here's one😸 . A nights foxing which turned into two nights a couple of years ago on the stubbles sticks in my mind, first night was going well when we pulled into a gateway, my lad scanned across the stubble with the lamp and turned off as a set of eyes showed on the hedge a good 250yds on other side of field, I fired up the drone and on looking saw a pair of foxes with a fallow doe between them, as I watched the doe ran at one of them which turned and legged it,she then turned and ran at the other fox that had moved closer to where she stood, chasing that one off, my lad was watching through the thermal and this went on for a while, doe back and forth, chasing the foxes off, she must of had a fawn in the hedge so as soon as the fox I was on stood still I killed it😃, the other fox ran up and into the hedge, I quitely got off tailgate and told the driver to sit still for awhile as I really wanted to get the other one, a few minutes later it came back to stand looking at the doe for a couple of seconds before another 39grn sbk hit home, shot 10 foxes that night and 9 the next night on same land but those two foxes that were determined to get that fawn were two of the most satisfying shots I've done, love my .204😉. Sleep tight 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

Sorry, promise I won't mention the .20cal again😂, but if you ever do get one, you'll be able to put your tennis balls away and drive some golf balls out👍😃

Superb rifle's onehol👍, I bought one of the first intercepters in 22-250 , battleship grey stock and I believe a L walther barrel which the first one's had, still have it in the cabinet, but hardly ever use it now as the 204 and 17fireball with n/v has mostly taken me over 😃, would like to get the 20prac out to smack some crows and Maggie's,but this lockdown has people wandering about everywhere around here😕 My good friend who is no longer with us😢 used to video a lot of our shooting that rifle,day and night. he was probably one of the first to post rifle shooting on YouTube under the name of warrolutak ( not sure if spelt right), some of you might remember the clips?, foxes,crows, rabbits,etc, I remember reading the comments 😂😂. So yep ootot, still shooting as much as poss, but more in the dark now with n/v, the air rifle has also been drinking a bit of air with 127 rats in 3 outings just recently, great fun😃.

I was being offered lots of partridge and pheasants in the game shooting season, and decided to buy another freezer to put in a shed to keep taking what was being offered😃😃, didn't know what was just around the corner!!!. Bet all those guns not taking any birds home are kicking themselves now😂.

Think I'll just stay with my hazle sticks or it'll be like Gandy says😂😂

No no, getting it right is hard enough sometimes, playing them, you'll just hit another Brick in the wall😋

Love that song 👍, just had us all laughing 😂.

£1500 for a tripod set up, GULP, how would you explain that one to the wife😶

nice Terry, and very handy if you happen to get an itch on your nose and ar5e at the same time😮

Yep I couldn't belong to a forum like SD where until you've had 3000 posts you're slapped down by some of the older residents for posting something which isn't quite to their liking , mind you, might be nice to be called sonny again, it's been a long time 😯😂😂