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  1. sako
    That's a bummer, but I guess the quality is utter rubbish on the mount. The back screws on mine look 'chewed' and I'm an engineer ! Its obviously poor quality materials they are using. I'd also email BSA who are the UK distributor - insist on a new mount ! I'd also email them a link to this thread. Let us know how you get on. Funny reading this, I was in the shed drilling an optilock mount with a rounded allen key bolt for the easy out to extract the thread earlier. Luckily the rounded screw came out easily for me, I hope you get the same luck if you don't get a replacement off
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    I cant help on this one, my preferred methods for disassembly are... Wood= chainsaw anything else= sledge and if it needs reassembling, weld, duct tape or baling cord! Sorry to hear you've got problems when you seem to have been having success with the spotting, hope you sort it!
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    Both the bino and mono are good, its down to each individuals choice and of course PRICE The rangefinder works the same way as it does on a day scope, i don't use it to much as i'm just building a gen2 add-on for this , i am a bit concerned with the rangefinders laser as this could do damage to my gen3 tube if used on a regular basis. I have no farms with game birds on within 5000 acres so no one shoots the foxes, i have a deal with the farmers and thats because a lot of public have chickens and geese in the area which get hammered but the fox helps the farmer by eating the rabbits (yeah ri
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    That's a good indepth report of the nd3x50, but with all those foxes about I think you need me to come and sort them out for you I don't think I'll rush out and buy one but it seems like they do have a place for the closer shots. Im now more interested in the range finder and how it works with the nv, is it like a scope with an add on? I don't know whether to go for bino rangefinders or a mono rangefinder any advice?
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    All is ok! I went out last night spotted a fox with the blitz but didn't stop the lamp on it. Nv on and she lit up like a christmas tree. She wasn't bothered by the nv laser just kept mooching about. I gave a little squeak for her to look up and let her have it. The shot was at least 170yrds as I zero not far from it and it was about double the distance. Even though I was looking for foxes I was scanning and having a look for the rabbits but even with the lamp they just weren't about so I don't think I've not been spottting them with the nv. Although it was a bright moon it was well covered
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    The ground is my problem, clean open fields no problem but most of my shooting is is the rough where it's hard enough to spot with a lamp! Don't give up on it yet keep us informed!
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    Well Im gutted you didn't find it up to scratch mike but I do think you will find the darker nights much better with it. My nv is simular, I can see a long way with a moon lit night but as the picture is so bright I don't think the laser picks out the rabbits eyes as easy as on a dark night. I too am going back to the lamp to spot then Im going to switch to nv add on to shoot but Im only after foxes. I want to make sure Im not scanning past and not spotting but if Im waiting and calling it'll all be nv.
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    Wait until you try and mount it before you buy rails, you may find it's comfortable enough with just the scope and mount's set as far forward as possible but obviously rails do give you that bit extra.
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    Ricky when you say .22 centrefire you probably mean rimfire as that's the next big step up from fac air rifle for rabbits. The rimfire has it's limits at 100yrds but even to achieve this you need lots of target practise to learn the tragectory and the drop. The .222 centre fire etc will exceed 100yrds with ease but start getting expensive if you are going to be going through lots of rounds so are more suited to fox etc.
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    Sounds simular to my nv regaurding conditions! If it's a full moon I can see to the other side of the universe but I still don't know if I could see a fox flagging me!
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    It's funny , I was in the exact same position. No one seemed to give me the nod to say it's safe so I just went and paid top price from deben to make sure. Blade no matter where you order it from I can assure you, you will never regret it!
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    I don't know if you are referring to an ND3x50 but there is a thread in the optics section running at the moment, have a look at that and ask.
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    I don't think the manufacturer is on their own there! I can't understand how some claim thousands of metre beams when they use the same bulb as a lightforce blitz which claims 800yrds??? What do they say the range is? Or is that the 5 mile beam thing I've read about?
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    It will be good to here how it compares to the nv method, whether the fox reacts more or less to the nd350 beam or IR illuminator with the nv.
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    Fireblade how does the nd work then, can you only see the light through the scope so you need a lamp to spot, or is it just easier to spot at greater distances with the lamp and then call looking through the scope?
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    I've just ordered the catapult torch on your top link but a v3 hope it's better than the v2, but I can't find that mount in the link for sale anywhere.
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    I doubt you'll need anything more than the 14ah but if you are at all concerned like I was and you did go for a 22ah they are still so light. I'd like to try a 14ah on my blitz all night but would imagine it would do it no problem at all. I've often got the lamp on for half hour periods just searching for the carcass of the fox as I mostly shoot rough ground so that's why I need the extra staying power.
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    lol - I'm on the case, will be up tonight... What about Lithium Ions then? All I can say on the lithium is, once you've bought one you'll never go back! I to was toying with the idea of ordering the one off this site but as my lead acid battery's have always been 17ah I was hesitant to go lower. I went for a 22ah lithium it was expensive but still extremely light and runs forever. Since buying the 22ah I wouldn't hesitate going for a 14ah especially as you are only scanning with it. Go for it you don't hardly know your carrying it.I stick mine on my belt next to a foxpro caller and
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    Good one Mike and cheers for that review fireblade! That sounds like I could have saved £££'s buying that nd3 instead of my nv mono, because of the review it sounds like they'll do exactly the same job for me. I've been out a few times with the nv mono but Im doubting myself that Im scanning past mr fox as Im looking at cover and long distances. I can spot and shoot rabbits out at 150 easily but I've only been doing that to test the nv. I think I need to go back to basics and like yourself return to the lamp for spotting and switch to the nv for the shot, but it was great to hear a first h
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    Fireblade, leave the bike where it is and get that review of the NV350 published! I would imagine there's a lot like myself interested in your findings
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    tried them tonight the binoculars have not got an inbuilt ir so i use the lamp with the ir filter on and it works brilliantly.lights the place up like daylight,good bit of kit for spotting and goes a long way well pleased.only thing is you have to hold the lamp and the binos in each hand but i can put up with that. That's excellent news! It's amazing what the extra IR illumination does isn't it. Good to hear you were pleased with the result!
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    Let us know how you get on!
  23. sako
    cheers sako i thought that but haven't they supposed to have ir built in.(maybe not on the old ones) They could quite well have a onboard IR illuminator. I had a gen 1 mono where as long as the illuminator was attached to the mono, it would power up when the power button of the mono was pressed. My current gen 2+ mono has a seperate button for the illuminator. If the binos are old they could have a real low power illuminator like my old gen 1 mono which as you say would struggle to get eye shine at 20yrds but with a lamp and IR filter the mono was fine out past 100yrds. You need to fin
  24. sako
    Eyes won't light on anything unless you point an IR illuminated beam at it mate. Your best bet is to test them with your lamp and IR fiter sheet, then everythings eyes will light up and you'll know exactly how good the binos are.
  25. sako
    Mike I think you've hit the nail on the head! 'It's the idiots that own the dogs'. That's half the trouble they don't look after or make sure the dogs are secure they just open the door and kick them out half the time and just don't know what they're up to. IWW If everyone was like yourself there would be a lot more permission's granted on sheep farms!
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