Themidlandstalker
Well-Known Member
As above, last year I went out with a friend who has a helion 38mm and I was impressed he could see things in day or night that I was completely unaware of. I decided I still didn't need one or could justify the money for one until this year when it got the better of me!
I went out and bought a hikvision 6mm thermal at £479 thinking all I needed to do was scan,find heat sources and bino them to find what I was seeing a heat source from. This works well tbf and I was happily searching fields and woodland picking up heat from all-sorts. All was good until I went out with my mate again and we compared how sharp the images were......it all went to sh*t. Obviously his helion would show a crisper image but what I didn't expect was that sheep at 200yds were basically invisible to the hikvision whereas through his I could pick them out instantaneously, and when I looked back through the hik I could then just about make out a heat signature from them.
Safe to say my hikvision wasnt the best purchase for long range stalking and it more suited to woodland airgunning where it will, without question source squirrels and rabbits with it having a 1x basemag that's basically what it was probably designed to do......so it's sat in the drawer and I've just had a xm30s delivered from Edinburgh rifles last week. GAME CHANGER. It's sharp, picks heat sigs up from God knows how far away and has multiple modes to choose from Inc colours. Removable battery (it needs it too!), ordered a lanyard from a chap on here as the hand strap is fine if your not carrying rifle and sticks already.
Here is a critter from 70yd away the other night, got that close in on it I got a photo with my phone but the xm30s picked it up and was glowing red like a beacon.
Moral, save up and buy what you need for the kind of shoots you do, should have just bought a pulsar to start with
. Mon a different note the hikvision will be coming up for sale on here soon, once I've boxed it back up etc.....
I went out and bought a hikvision 6mm thermal at £479 thinking all I needed to do was scan,find heat sources and bino them to find what I was seeing a heat source from. This works well tbf and I was happily searching fields and woodland picking up heat from all-sorts. All was good until I went out with my mate again and we compared how sharp the images were......it all went to sh*t. Obviously his helion would show a crisper image but what I didn't expect was that sheep at 200yds were basically invisible to the hikvision whereas through his I could pick them out instantaneously, and when I looked back through the hik I could then just about make out a heat signature from them.
Safe to say my hikvision wasnt the best purchase for long range stalking and it more suited to woodland airgunning where it will, without question source squirrels and rabbits with it having a 1x basemag that's basically what it was probably designed to do......so it's sat in the drawer and I've just had a xm30s delivered from Edinburgh rifles last week. GAME CHANGER. It's sharp, picks heat sigs up from God knows how far away and has multiple modes to choose from Inc colours. Removable battery (it needs it too!), ordered a lanyard from a chap on here as the hand strap is fine if your not carrying rifle and sticks already.
Here is a critter from 70yd away the other night, got that close in on it I got a photo with my phone but the xm30s picked it up and was glowing red like a beacon.
Moral, save up and buy what you need for the kind of shoots you do, should have just bought a pulsar to start with
. Mon a different note the hikvision will be coming up for sale on here soon, once I've boxed it back up etc.....
