I think it's compulsory in Scotland!
low offers on Thermals
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You could take a shot five minutes before last light, although legal by a fag paper that deer runs and you have hardly any sign at the shot site, you’re in a muddle all so all praise the thermal
[/QUOTE.. spot onbut I’ve a better tool than a thermal when shooting just on dark when they stags appear .. it’s called a Mutt .. daft as a brush but he’s got some nose on him when it comes to long grass or amongst trees .
With a HAND HELD thermal and a good mutt it makes shooting just on dark a lot easier .
You literally said “last night”, posting a photo which looks like it was taken in darkness. If you didn’t shoot them in darkness it must’ve been a troublesome gralloch…Who said I shot it at night ya divot .. I used a hand held thermal to spot it .. then I shot it .. who mentioned anything about night shooting , you shouldn’t really write incriminating things and jump to stupid conclusions . Think before you jump in .
Try not to resort to insults, I’d doesn’t portray you in a particularly good light (or dark, depending upon when you choose to shoot deer).
The gralloch is on the hill .. I don’t do “suspended “ ones .. the heads and feet you see in the trailer are what comes off once I get back to the pickup .. I then go back up the hill and throw them in my “foxy pile” . Quite easy to understand if you shoot a few .. any time your up my way give me a bell and I’ll introduce you to the way thousands of stalkers do it .. no charge .. and you can take the clean carcass with you . And … wait for it .. all within daylight hrs .
all within daylight hrs . 
Stop talking bollicks
it is last night by the time you get the kit to them.
A few last light shots
Fallow buck around Red hind weight 80 + kg dressed
Stop talking bollicks
it is last night by the time you get the kit to them.
A few last light shots
Fallow buck around Red hind weight 80 + kg dressed
I like to see them wi the “Brazilian butt lift “ Tim .. a good sign of good feeding .. fat buggers Ebay is a good way of establishing prices as its an auction site.
Equally technology is moving on or at least the advertising is. New manufacturers or at least labels are selling at lower prices with a warranty, will they be here in the future to service the warranty - that's a gamble.
Equally technology is moving on or at least the advertising is. New manufacturers or at least labels are selling at lower prices with a warranty, will they be here in the future to service the warranty - that's a gamble.
Check out the thermal! Note no crosshairs on the recording device Second deer recovered from over the ditch
What scope was this? That’s a cracking image!
..Used it last night. S/Hand xq38f
My mate is a keen air gunner and pings crows and rabbits , I gave him my xq38 as I don’t need it just now and he’s over the moon with it
he can’t believe the difference it’s made to picking off rabbits that he probably wouldn’t see with his binos . 
hope I can get it back
It is a hand held spotter. Note no crosshairs on the recording device
8 was still legal shooting light!
Nothing to do with it Lee. But if you have a lot of ground to cover or the landowner wants the deer numbers down then they are a good tool.
I’m that desperate I called in 3 different 6 point bucks last night, and they’re all still walking around today.
Freeforester
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It’s a ‘cultural thing’ - a’ two nations divided by a common language’ scenario - many of us up here speak of ‘last night’ to others meaning yest’re’en, only this latter term isn’t much in the parlance south of the wall.
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the warranty is transferable on most top brands . if you can't afford what the seller is asking then look for a cheaper model
Freeforester
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My own Quantum xq38 was out of warranty when I bought it from a longstanding member on this site, and I paid around double what they typically fetch today; maybe both parties were fortunate, I certainly had zero regrets, and eventually resold it a good few years later, only because newer models came out which had the same compact form but with a better sensor and built in LRF.
Bruce’s maxim for electronics, that if it doesn’t go wrong in the first month or two, then it’s generally unlikely to do so thereafter has been borne out in my own experience, and whilst I can understand the reticence of some for used equipment and/or the ‘comfort’ of a decent warranty on any new bought item, these usually have to be paid for somehow, and again generally speaking, any product with issues isn’t long on the go before this gets noticed.
Aside from this, we have to recognise that somewhere along the line basic household- and politically determined economics, and the prospect of a maturing market leading potentially toward saturation for such (generally speaking) specialised equipment also play their part in shaping their realistic resale price achievable over time.
I mean, I knew what he meant and the fact he said 8 O’Clock means it should have been clear it was legal light.
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