Back up at the shoot

[shovel leaner 7,650]

1 minute ago, Stavross said:

That’s how we started out, spot light off the front of an XR2, I’ve recently just sold my lightforce variable power lamp with over the shoulder man bag battery bag 

Should of kept it , it’ll be a museum piece. If you had told me back then , that you would have a torch that would fit in your pocket and weigh literally nothing, but could throw a 800 meter beam , I doubt I’d of have believed it . Makes you think what next ? I’m waiting for heat seeking bullets , so that you never miss.  I think I will give up then.  

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

39 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

Should of kept it , it’ll be a museum piece. If you had told me back then , that you would have a torch that would fit in your pocket and weigh literally nothing, but could throw a 800 meter beam , I doubt I’d of have believed it . Makes you think what next ? I’m waiting for heat seeking bullets , so that you never miss.  I think I will give up then.  

I have often thought how technology is progressing.  One day your scope will just be a mini computer which will range the target and adjust the scope for elevation and windage, press a button and job done. No more missing which is a shame as shooting will just be like a PC game .Sad really

[Stavross 15,856]

I was watching something a while back and there’s already technology that pick up a heat source and zeros itself on that target, it won’t be long before it’s small enough to sit on top of your rifle, I’ll maybe get one and start letting my mate shoot foxes again

[ianm 2,594]

54 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

I have often thought how technology is progressing.  One day your scope will just be a mini computer which will range the target and adjust the scope for elevation and windage, press a button and job done. No more missing which is a shame as shooting will just be like a PC game .Sad really

It's already here. A bloke i know that shoots a lot of deer has Leica range finding binoculars and a Leica scope on a 6.5 x 55 rifle. He spots the deer and presses a button on his bins, it ranges the deer and passes the info to his scope which adjusts the p.o.a. All he has to do is take the shot, job done.   

[shovel leaner 7,650]

1 hour ago, ianm said:

It's already here. A bloke i know that shoots a lot of deer has Leica range finding binoculars and a Leica scope on a 6.5 x 55 rifle. He spots the deer and presses a button on his bins, it ranges the deer and passes the info to his scope which adjusts the p.o.a. All he has to do is take the shot, job done.   

Where do you get them ?……. asking for a friend .  

[ianm 2,594]

3 hours ago, shovel leaner said:

Where do you get them ?……. asking for a friend .  

The local gunshop  ordered them in for him.

Will it swing a deal if you get free snares with them?

[shovel leaner 7,650]

2 hours ago, ianm said:

The local gunshop  ordered them in for him.

Will it swing a deal if you get free snares with them?

It may , I’ll see what my friend says .

Edited August 23, 2021 by shovel leaner

[Baldcoot 2,352]

Your " friend " is he the 1 you see in the shaving mirror perchance

[Stavross 15,856]

Well that’s it, I’m all set for the birds arrival tomorrow, feed and water in and around the pens, the birds will be here at 6am and much to my amazement 4 members volunteered to go up

i mentioned earlier that a BOP had escaped from a local estate and had been seen around the shoot, well I got a glimpse of it tonight and although I didn’t see it long enough to identify it, it’s bloody massive, now I not worried about it killing 800 birds but I am bothered about it scaring the sh*t out of 800 birds, so I now need to contact the estate to find out what is going to be done about it

[shovel leaner 7,650]

2 minutes ago, Stavross said:

Well that’s it, I’m all set for the birds arrival tomorrow, feed and water in and around the pens, the birds will be here at 6am and much to my amazement 4 members volunteered to go up

i mentioned earlier that a BOP had escaped from a local estate and had been seen around the shoot, well I got a glimpse of it tonight and although I didn’t see it long enough to identify it, it’s bloody massive, now I not worried about it killing 800 birds but I am bothered about it scaring the sh*t out of 800 birds, so I now need to contact the estate to find out what is going to be done about it

Hope all goes well . You look set for some decent weather anyway. Hope the BOP gets reunited with its owner too.  Bloody nuisance that . 

[Stavross 15,856]

Weather looks spot on for the next 10 days, so fingers crossed they will settle well and I can keep them in the pens a little longer

ive no idea what they will do about this BOP, it’s been missing for a few weeks now so I wouldn’t of thought it will come in to a bit of chicken on a glove now

[shovel leaner 7,650]

10 hours ago, Stavross said:

Weather looks spot on for the next 10 days, so fingers crossed they will settle well and I can keep them in the pens a little longer

ive no idea what they will do about this BOP, it’s been missing for a few weeks now so I wouldn’t of thought it will come in to a bit of chicken on a glove now

Those Hawks aren’t cheap . I would imagine that whoever it belongs to will be making every effort to get it back .

[Stavross 15,856]

My new toy arrived this morning and it would be rude not to give it a run out this evening 

I’d like to say a massive thank you to Tom at nightmaster, I gave him a ring yesterday afternoon, told him what I wanted and with a few quid off ( he’s knows what I’m like ) he sent it straight out, arrived before 10 this morning, this lad gives a service that’s second to none and the after sales is just as good, if any of you are looking for, thermal, NV, torches etc, give them a look, they go out of their way to help you out

[BenBhoy 4,706]

1 hour ago, Stavross said:

this lad gives a service that’s second to none and the after sales is just as good

I can scond that.

Bought few bits off them, such quick delivery & quick response to emails (unlike another seller who is popular on here)

proper reliable company.

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Nice one Stav , them fallow cant hide now