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    Have a look at the pard DS 70, half the weight of the Alpert and a very good scope. The onboard illuminater isn’t bad either and it has a led. Nipped out on Friday night for a look round the caravan site. There are quite a few rabbits building up on there as well so I thought I would take a few so that the owner isn’t moaning about them. Ages since I had Rabbit stew. I took the 204 with the A7 on it and the 17 ruger precision with a drone on for the rabbits. I set up in the usual spot at the side of a big building. This is a really good place for overlooking several fields and y
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    Is that for the magpie in a larsen.?
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    Ruger precision, I had a cz 452 a few years ago but I like this a lot more.
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    Well this fellows luck ran out tonight. He came into the field from the furthest corner around 7.30pm. By seeing him on the camera and at various locations on the farm we managed to plot his pattern of movement. We surmised he would enter the farm where he did and that it would be early in the evening and he didn’t disappoint. Spotted with thermal shot with n/v, a really wary 14lb dog fox that won’t be killing any lambs this spring.
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    That Senopex A7 i bought recently is an absolute cracking foxing scope. One push of a button and you are on 14 mag with no discernable pixallation meaning long shots are easily doable (A) if you have to and (B) if you are up to it. However, as you say anything thermal that is any good is expensive. Of the current crop of n/v scopes i have been quite impressed with the Pard. It is excellent in daylight and at dusk and more than capable at night. The built in range finder and laser i/r is a bonus as well.
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    Well I am going tonight to see if I can kill a really wary fox before the farmer starts lambing. It won’t come to a call of any description, in fact all a caller does is tell it I am there. I have left bait for it with a camera up a tree to see what sort of pattern it has but it is very hit and miss. I am just going to get tucked up under a tree over looking the bait site and see if it shows. I get a lot of wary foxes on this farm and I believe the reason is they are being called in and run with lurchers not too far away. I know there are a few lads nearby that try to lamp them so inevitably q
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    They are the best!?
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    If that is a dig at rifle shooters it is a poor one. In the forty + years that i ran lurchers i killed my fair share of foxes using lip squeaks, polystyrene on a mirror and cassete tape between a peg. I also dug plenty with the terriers. Alas, time moves on and lurcher work on fox is now illegal and terrier work limited. I have absolutely no desire these days to be hounded by the law so i now use a rifle. If you think you can use technology without a care for fieldcraft you are sadly mistaken. It isn't a matter of pulling up in a field putting out an electronic caller and any f
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    Stop muscling in on my racket sonny, I am the grumpy old man here.? So I take it I am not going to get an invite now because you chose to go shooting with a proper broth head, typical! ?
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    Having had and used a 17 hornet i can quite categorically say you will have plenty of runners on fox at 200yds. Ben, for crows you are not going to better your 204.
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    No it definitely wasn’t split. I checked it again when I ejected it after the failure. A really strange incident. People need to be vigilant when shooting hmr because it doesn’t look like the ammunition problem has gone away.
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    Be careful! I used Hornady ammunition, 17 grain by the way.
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    Well during a little zeroing session yesterday I had an incident with the hmr that I have never heard of before. I had checked all the rounds for split necks before using them. After about fifteen shots I squeezed the trigger again and was met with just a click. The type you would hear if the firing pin had just hit the primer but not detonated. I ejected the case expecting to see a complete round that had failed to fire. What I got instead was an empty case and evidence that the firing pin had struck it as normal. After removing the bolt I could see the barrel was blocked about one inch in. T
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    It's the way forward as my mate finally found out after me telling him for years.
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    Well another two dogs in the bag tonight, one 16lb and the other one 14lb. The first was Droned by my mate and the second was A7d by me.
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    As FH says 913grams if you are f*****g French! However i am not, therefore it is a tad over 2lbs. I will be back on the Drone this week as i much prefer the picture of n/v to thermal. I will bung the 204 A7 combo in the Jimny as well just in case a mist or fog rolls in.
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    Another fox last night for the.204 Senopex A7 combo. It was a 16lb dog in good order. I will be back on the foxes hard now where there are lambs to protect and at the game breeding farm where there are both lambs and penned game birds and ducks to protect.
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    Good shot! it would have been easy to miss that as well.
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    Well, well how times change, HMR now N/V. There is no holding you back now! ?
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    Have you not got a trusted mate locally that can help out?
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    You cannot blame the gear when a "mong" is using it, go out with mongs and you will get mong results, simples! As for thermal, if it is a monocular you want then the best is the Pulsar Helion2 xp 50 pro. If you want biocular type with range finder then the pulsar Merger xp 50 is the one to have. Neither are cheap but are head and shoulders above the rest.
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    Very good result David well done!
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    The pard i tried yesterday was 5.6 and 11.2 mag and no noticeable difference with either, in daylight of course.
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    It is the DS 35 70RF. Yes there is always that option too. Although quite a few had mount problems and the quality of the picture is nowhere near the new ones.
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    Right I zeroed this scope in one shot and took another to check it. It was absolutely spot on. The picture is really very good and we finished up shooting at the hardox fox targets up to 300yds with absolutely no drama whatsoever. Once you have had a flick through the manual it is a very user friendly scope. I was quite impressed with it actually. The laser range finder was spot on as well. This is all in daylight though and I have no idea what it will be like at night. If it is 2/3rds as good in the dark as it is in daylight it will be a usable scope at not too much money.
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