I just bought a ND50 Glacier yest. Very very early days but impressed so far
I have done the exact same as u Bali searchingthrou threads etc and does seem to be a lot of contraciction out there.
The Lasers seem to be a bit of a marmite thing.
But all the people in shops say they are a really good product, i bought mine at Game and Country in Selkirk £190 for 50, £240 for 100 and think around the £150 mark for an NM800, they have sold a lot and they supply a lot off the local keepers so if it was no good they would not be selling them. I bought the 50 as seemingly the laser must require a lot of power to start up so sometimes the 100 can have a slight delay (2-5secs, wether that is actually a problem i don't know?) but boys in shop said the 50 is fine, i spot with a normal lamp anyway so just wanting something solight for pulling the trigger
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I had a wee shot with mine last nite (but unfortunately had some prob's with the mount so was bodged to the top off my rifle scope) pretty impressed so far, never had such a clear picture throu my scope lamping before ever!! When i get the proper mount on tonite i'm expecting it to be even better.
Absolutely no mod glare,
up to now been using a bit of 2" drainage pipe elasticed onto my scope
The big thing for me is can animals see it?? Sadly i'd say yes althoui not 100% decided. Never seen any foxes broc or rabbits last nite but loads off deer, some stood and grazed happily while others were a bit flighty while some took off, but the lamp and even lamp with filter does the exact same. PLus it may have been something else that spooked deer it's a reasonably heavily poached area so the deer are fairly wise
Uptill now been using a clulite (shootalite?) small torch thigy on top of my lamp which has done fine, but this is in a different league all together s far
Finally while i think/know the animals can see the 'light/laser' they probably don't move as not been shot at and missed by that 'funny light' so don't associate it with danger yet, plenty of animals will sit in full beam off a lamp too and not move the first time, but muck it up and they don't sit for long
I'll be out a bit over next few days so will see how it goes but i have never tried an nm800 or small powerful LED torch so hard for me to compare. They are completely different things thou
With these small LED torches that are producing a very powerful and focussed beam do u not get problems frightening aimals, esp if no dimmer type control