What would you do. Advice needed.

[Mills03]

Moving into stalking/foxing, looking for advice. Would you split your budget over a thermal spotter and a night scope, like the Lynx LE19 2.0 and a Hik 4k scope, or put it all into the DTM TNC335R scope?

Grateful for the quick points that spotting with scope leads to safety issue. So would you look at the TNC 335R and a cheaper thermal or spend more money on the spotting thermal.

 

[Liveonce]

Moving into stalking/foxing, looking for advice. Would you split your budget over a thermal spotter and a night scope, like the Lynx LE19 2.0 and a Hik 4k scope, or put it all into the DTM TNC335R scope?

personally i do not like spotting for a target by using the rifle, for safety and it gets tiring to do so.

Thermal spotter, digital scope is the method I use.

 

[Tazz]

As above post. IMHO if you are just relying on a NV/Thermal scope it means you are also “ spotting “ with your rifle just not a great safety/principle option, get a spotter as well

 

[Mills03]

personally i do not like spotting for a target by using the rifle, for safety and it gets tiring to do so.

Thermal spotter, digital scope is the method I use.

Cheers was worried trying to spot from sticks would be a pain.

 

[Tim.243]

Moving into stalking/foxing, looking for advice, would you split your budget over a thermal spotter and a night scope.

Like the lynx le19 2.0 and a hik 4k scope

Or put it all in to the DTM TNC335R scope.

I use a digital scope for both stalking/foxing granted most of my outings are at the end of daylight also have a xq38f spotter.
If it is a blank for deer I roll on for foxes working my way back home looking over other ground.

 

[Mills03]

As above post. IMHO if you are just relying on a NV/Thermal scope it means you are also “ spotting “ with your rifle just not a great safety/principle option, get a spotter as well

Yeah very good point, wpuod you get a cheep thermal for spotting a heat source and then somthing like the DMT or push for a better spotting thermal

 

[Mills03]

I use a digital scope for both stalking/foxing granted most of my outings are at the end of daylight also have a xq38f spotter.
If it is a blank for deer I roll on for foxes working my way back home looking over other ground.

Yeah you've spent the money in a really good spotter and then a digital scope

 

[Tazz]

Yeah very good point, wpuod you get a cheep thermal for spotting a heat source and then somthing like the DMT or push for a better spotting thermal

A decent s/h thermal spotter is the way to go them a quality digital NV scope, that way you have 2 systems to confirm the quarry is what you are after and not a badger/cat

 

[Clive Ward]

Moving into stalking/foxing, looking for advice. Would you split your budget over a thermal spotter and a night scope, like the Lynx LE19 2.0 and a Hik 4k scope, or put it all into the DTM TNC335R scope?

Grateful for the quick points that spotting with scope leads to safety issue. So would you look at the TNC 335R and a cheaper thermal or spend more money on the spotting thermal.

What day scope do you currently have, and what is the overall budget?


Cheers





Clive

 

[Tim.243]

Yeah you've spent the money in a really good spotter and then a digital scope

The scope is 8/9 years old the thermal 6/7 both second hand, quad sticks were 12 quid. Refurbish the defunk £70.00 thermal battery's for £20.00

 

[Mills03]

What day scope do you currently have, and what is the overall budget?


Cheers





Clive

I dont really , would like to keep them on the other rifles

 

[Mills03]

A decent s/h thermal spotter is the way to go them a quality digital NV scope, that way you have 2 systems to confirm the quarry is what you are after and not a badger/cat

Sounds like the best idea cheers

 

[Mills03]

The scope is 8/9 years old the thermal 6/7 both second hand, quad sticks were 12 quid. Refurbish the defunk £70.00 thermal battery's for £20.00

Ha I thought the thermal was north of 2500 quid

 

[Tim.243]

Ha I thought the thermal was north of 2500 quid

You have a bit more to learn
Spend what you like but the "buy it now" fieldcraft deals are on the drip for life.

 

[Cyres]

Buy the best thermal you can afford as that's what you will use the most. Today new ones not much more than older top end SH ones.
Get digital NV. Arken appears v good and ATN did a brilliant deal last weekend on digital scopes.
D

 

[Liveonce]

Cheers was worried trying to spot from sticks would be a pain.

It will be a very big pain, which you will soon causes tiredness and fatigue.

Some good advice in other posts.

 

[Koenig]

Spot / scan with a hand held spotter, then determine what ‘it’ is (species / sex / condition) with bino’s. You shouldn’t be scanning with anything fixed to your rifle. That’s just unsafe.

 

[Shaun Goss]

I’ve got exactly that a Lynx 19 2.0 and an Alpex 4k. Works well, the only thing I would say is I perhaps wish I spent more on a better thermal.

 

[Tim.243]

Spot / scan with a hand held spotter, then determine what ‘it’ is (species / sex / condition) with bino’s. You shouldn’t be scanning with anything fixed to your rifle. That’s just unsafe.

I don't just the spotter as anything in season (or doesn't have one) and is save gets taken on. All this extra movement no wonder we have far to many deer as people are double handling.

 

[Donkey Basher]

As others have said, NEVER use a scope on top of the rifle as a spotter!

I’m new to thermal & digital NV but have to say after a few months of using a thermal spotter it’s amazing what you can see & my Alpex then allows me to make the best use of available light.