After having my Zulus on my .22 for the last couple of years for bunny bashing, I found I wasn’t using it much recently. Due to fairly poor last light performance I had from the Element Helix I had on prior and not wanting to spend a fortune on better glass, I decided to use what I already had and put it on my 6.5CM.
I got it mounted set up and zeroed at my local range, but when I took it out stalking that night, I realised that the ballistic table had not properly sync’d, when I ranged the base of a fence post at around 200m and the crosshairs jumped nearly to the top of the post. Luckily I had checked this and no targets had presented themselves that evening.
I got the ballistic table issue sorted a few days ago and so headed out tonight on a fairly new bit of land to me.
Heading up across a couple of fields I could see a group of 5 roe deer on the edge of a wood block at the top if the hill through the thermal. However they were around 350m away with only open fields between us and as I got closer they must have spotted me and ran into the woods.
So I followed the ground down to the right where there is a high seat overlooking some clearfell, but also able to look back up the hill to were I saw the 5 from earlier.
I scanned across the clearfell for a while with the thermal and my binos, not seeing anything, but luckily after about 30mins, one by one the deer from earlier started to reemerge from the woods.
Initially they were skylined, but I could see they were making their way down the hill towards the highseat, so I thought it was just a case of waiting and seeing if they made it down far enough to have a safe backstop before it got too dark.
While I was waiting I used the Zulus to record a video of one of the bucks in the group, which looked like a good head and starting to look like it was cleaning up its velvet.
However as they made their way down I noticed there was a small path back into the woods they were working their way towards. One disappeared down the path, which at this point I could see there was a safe backstop where they were entering the path, so I picked out one of the does to take before she headed down there too. Ranged it at 211m lined up the cross hairs and she dropped on the spot.
Waited a little while in the highseat to see if anything else appeared, but nothing else tonight, so made my way across and got her gralloched and off to the larder.
So altogether very happy with the performance of the Zulus.
I got it mounted set up and zeroed at my local range, but when I took it out stalking that night, I realised that the ballistic table had not properly sync’d, when I ranged the base of a fence post at around 200m and the crosshairs jumped nearly to the top of the post. Luckily I had checked this and no targets had presented themselves that evening.
I got the ballistic table issue sorted a few days ago and so headed out tonight on a fairly new bit of land to me.
Heading up across a couple of fields I could see a group of 5 roe deer on the edge of a wood block at the top if the hill through the thermal. However they were around 350m away with only open fields between us and as I got closer they must have spotted me and ran into the woods.
So I followed the ground down to the right where there is a high seat overlooking some clearfell, but also able to look back up the hill to were I saw the 5 from earlier.
I scanned across the clearfell for a while with the thermal and my binos, not seeing anything, but luckily after about 30mins, one by one the deer from earlier started to reemerge from the woods.
Initially they were skylined, but I could see they were making their way down the hill towards the highseat, so I thought it was just a case of waiting and seeing if they made it down far enough to have a safe backstop before it got too dark.
While I was waiting I used the Zulus to record a video of one of the bucks in the group, which looked like a good head and starting to look like it was cleaning up its velvet.
However as they made their way down I noticed there was a small path back into the woods they were working their way towards. One disappeared down the path, which at this point I could see there was a safe backstop where they were entering the path, so I picked out one of the does to take before she headed down there too. Ranged it at 211m lined up the cross hairs and she dropped on the spot.
Waited a little while in the highseat to see if anything else appeared, but nothing else tonight, so made my way across and got her gralloched and off to the larder.
So altogether very happy with the performance of the Zulus.
