Recent content by alasdair

I visited the Altberg factory shop in Yorkshire 10 years ago to get measured by them. They said that the best fit for my feet would be the GameKeeper boot they now call the Raby. They certainly felt good on. I enquired about buying 2 pairs - explaining that when winter hind stalking I was...

Thank you that's really helpful. - I'll need to get one to try for myself now! Alasdair

Watching this thread with interest, but I'm missing any comment on a specific aspect of thermal spotter use: I wear spectacles and keep them on all the time - yes I know I can take them off and adjust the optics to compensate but then I'll have to put spectacles back on to use scope on the...

I've PM'd you about the phone pouches. Alasdair

I've never heard of anything other than boiling or maggots/Dermestid beetles. Can you tell us a bit more about the method you use to clean them? I'm in South Lanarkshire, shoot mostly Roe (single figures per annum!) and will happily give you non-medal and doe heads in exchange for a lesson...

Yes, LDNS is still running! LDNS held 3 x Woodland Herbivore Impact Assessment demonstration/training days in April '23 (organised by John Bruce - free to attend!- they were excellent!) At the last executive meeting in May '23 Colin Shedden announced his retirement as Chair of LDNS and John...

I use an Ikea kitchen trolley to which press and powder measure are permanently bolted, but still has enough space for working on top with scales and/or electric case prep station. Shelves below hold plastic boxes (also from Ikea if you like!) that hold dies, cases, powder and other reloading...

I'm not very far from Edinburgh and am interested in attending a one day course locally and have stalking buddies who might also be interested. Alasdair.

for some years I got away with varifocals but like you as I get older the less well they work with riflescopes in particular and to a lesser extent with binoculars, thermal imagers and SLR type cameras with viewfinders. I keep my specs on all the time when stalking. I could adjust the focus on...

OK! I had the chance today to try the Axion XG35 (- not a field test, so can't comment on picture quality sensor sensitivity etc.,) For me, I can say that, with my spectacles on, it has exactly the same limitations as my Axion XM38. There is no rubber flange that can be folded back, as on the...

I am invariably wearing a peaked cap/hat when stalking which makes this difficult (need to cover shiny white bald head, and need a peak to keep rain off the spectacles!). And, I wear my glasses securely fixed round my ears so they won't fall off when I look down under my high seat! . . and...

should, of course, have said "2x digital zoom"

I wear spectacles - short sighted + astigmatism. Now a days, in my 70's, with my near vision requiring assistance I wear transitional (vari-focal) specs most of the time. But for stalking I wear single (distance) vision lenses and peer under or over them if I need to look at my phone or watch. I...

that'll be: tier1huntingsolutions

I've had my Sako 85 Finnlight 2 .308 synthetic stainless for about a year (had a 75 in 243 before that). I try to be a one rifle man and to learn to use that one rifle well. Got the .308 as I wanted a heavier gun for use with non-toxic (copper) I wasn't comfortable with the stopping power of...