I’ve seen the light!

[Donkey Basher]

Decided this morning to go & sit in a ladder in a boundary wood as the hunt were meeting next door & a) I thought they might move some fallow my way (they didn’t) & b) I could see if they crossed over as they’re banned after previous incursions without permission (they didn’t although I couldn’t be 100% certain the quad I heard wasn’t at the end of our wood…).

Being a daylight sortie I decided I’d take the 308 with the Zeiss on top for a change.

OMG what a revelation! - the image quality was superb, I’ve got so used to looking at the screen on the Alpex this winter I’d forgotten what proper glass looks like!

The image of the roe doe looking at me was so clear I almost didn’t want to pull the trigger… almost, but then as I watched her there was a bang & she disappeared into the bramble around her - my first roe doe this winter.

Been making the most of some dry weather, that roe is the third deer in as many outings

 

[Mike1979]

Decided this morning to go & sit in a ladder in a boundary wood as the hunt we’re meeting next door & a) I thought they might move some fallow my way (they didn’t) & b) I could see if they crossed over as they’re banned after previous incursions without permission (they didn’t although I couldn’t be 100% certain the quad I heard wasn’t at the end of our wood…).

Being a daylight sortie I decided I’d take the 308 with the Zeiss on top for a change.

OMG what a revelation! - the image quality was superb, I’ve got so used to looking at the screen on the Alpex this winter I’d forgotten what proper glass looks like!

The image of the roe doe looking at me was so clear I almost didn’t want to pull the trigger… almost, but then as I watched her there was a bang & she disappeared into the bramble around her - my first roe doe this winter.

Been making the most of some dry weather, that roe is the third in as many outings

Nicely done You cant beat good quality glass during daylight hours .. I love it when the Z6I goes onto my rifle in place of the Alpex...but thats more of a rarity these days

 

[Hazlett]

OMG what a revelation! - the image quality was superb, I’ve got so used to looking at the screen on the Alpex this winter I’d forgotten what proper glass looks like!

Me too 1st time today!

New neighbours have asked me to take on their deer - and not having been shot for many years, the deer come out at any time. So this is the first time in 3 seasons that I've been out with an optical sight and the bright clarity has really taken me by surprise.

 

[Donkey Basher]

Me too 1st time today!

New neighbours have asked me to take on their deer - and not having been shot for many years, the deer come out at any time. So this is the first time in 3 seasons that I've been out with an optical sight and the bright clarity has really taken me by surprise.

Back to the 6.5 (NOT a creedmare) & Alpex this evening.

 

[Mike1979]

Back to the 6.5 (NOT a creedmare) & Alpex this evening.

just cant resist the abuse

 

[BLUEROLL]

Decided this morning to go & sit in a ladder in a boundary wood as the hunt were meeting next door & a) I thought they might move some fallow my way (they didn’t) & b) I could see if they crossed over as they’re banned after previous incursions without permission (they didn’t although I couldn’t be 100% certain the quad I heard wasn’t at the end of our wood…).

Being a daylight sortie I decided I’d take the 308 with the Zeiss on top for a change.

OMG what a revelation! - the image quality was superb, I’ve got so used to looking at the screen on the Alpex this winter I’d forgotten what proper glass looks like!

The image of the roe doe looking at me was so clear I almost didn’t want to pull the trigger… almost, but then as I watched her there was a bang & she disappeared into the bramble around her - my first roe doe this winter.

Been making the most of some dry weather, that roe is the third deer in as many outings

Yep can`t beat good glass, especially in close woodland cover. I think the new generation of day/night scopes are good but the new generation of add on thermal`s combined with the Rusan bayonet adaptors for repeatable zero will inspire more people with "I’ve seen the light".

 

[Donkey Basher]

Yep can`t beat good glass, especially in close woodland cover. I think the new generation of day/night scopes are good but the new generation of add on thermal`s combined with the Rusan bayonet adaptors for repeatable zero will inspire more people with "I’ve seen the light".

Depends on whether you are shooting on open fields or in woodland…

This evening I stalked into a seat & before I reached it came on a fallow doe & doe fawn, spotted through the thermal, then the binos & eventually they cleared the brambles & hazel they’d been behind enough for me to plant a bullet into the does shoulder through a gap in the foliage.

The fawn legged it barking as I’d just dropped mum, but I could see it in the thermal some way back behind her. It came forward again tentatively as I continued watching in the thermal & I decided that if I could get a shot I’d take it. Put the scope up & eventually spotted the eye - the fawn was still well in cover yet the thermal would suggest I had a clear shot.

I’d love to whack a thermal add-on onto the front of the Zeiss but experiences like the above will stop me from doing so.

 

[BLUEROLL]

Depends on whether you are shooting on open fields or in woodland…

This evening I stalked into a seat & before I reached it came on a fallow doe & doe fawn, spotted through the thermal, then the binos & eventually they cleared the brambles & hazel they’d been behind enough for me to plant a bullet into the does shoulder through a gap in the foliage.

The fawn legged it barking as I’d just dropped mum, but I could see it in the thermal some way back behind her. It came forward again tentatively as I continued watching in the thermal & I decided that if I could get a shot I’d take it. Put the scope up & eventually spotted the eye - the fawn was still well in cover yet the thermal would suggest I had a clear shot.

I’d love to whack a thermal add-on onto the front of the Zeiss but experiences like the above will stop me from doing so.

I understand where you are coming from with that example but the 1280 thermal units are so good now that, like with a day scope where you can zoom up and adjust parallax to spot intervening branches, you can also do the same with the focus on the thermal.