Well done team. Great pics & country, thanks for sharing.
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Well done team. Great pics & country, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing. You are my hero:thumbsup: For the breakfast part, it was nice, just I can `t eat that much at once. I take two breakfast.
Il eat the bacon n eggs,roos can stay where they are shot.
Brian the Snowman LOL, it appears he's doing part time deliveries for the Post Office looking at his quad.
Top notch trip guys you will keep pretty fit walking them hills, I did hear that you ran out of ammo one day need to pack more , nothing worse than walking back to the hut and wallies still hopping about.
That breakfast you cooked up Rod would fuel you up for a good while on the hill.
Well done you guys.
Thanks for sharing, awesome photos you guys looks like you had a ball
That’s the kind of trip I’d pay to go on, you guys are missing a trick :thumbsup:
Yeah. One evening I only took about 55 rounds and ran out with 46 wallaby. It was a bugger because it was the only time I used the clip on thermal and was picking them off in the dusk and could have stayed there for hours. I anticipate I might have got 80 or so. The jokes on me 'cos Im always on at Rod to take plenty of ammo 'cos he has run out before too.
The irony is that I had 500 rounds back at the hut.
Thermal clips-ons priceless just on sunset n after.Roos don't know what hit them.;)
Yeah. I just need to get over my stigma about using it. It is effective alright but I enjoy the daylight sniping so much better.
And its taken me for ever to get the thing sighted in and sorted so that I understand it - its been a bit like changing from a Nissan to a Ranger :)
Shouldnt need sighting in,just sits central on the front of yr scope.Bit of fine tuning of image and focas,just use your day scope crosshairs.Have your day scope on 1.5x,2x,3x.mag
The thing still has to be centred with the 'scope. Mine was way out and it took a bit to get it adjusted to be lined up. You must have been lucky Grant.
Once centred you can make any adjustments to your scope you like and it still all stays lined up.
I can use mine up to 6 power on wallaby ok. Hikmicro.
Your lucky Grant mine needed sighting in.
Hmm i just slide my InFiray CH50 V2 on my 2x16x50 scope,flick a wee lever n all clamped on centrel.I got a wee white dot where i dial focas to match.Gives me 300yds of clear image view and a very wide field of view.Day scope just set at 2.5inch high and shoots out to 300yds.No sighting in of either scope.
I turn OFF cross hairs in thermal,thermal just like a monocular.I only use day scope cross hairs which are already sighted in.
TURN OFF YOUR THERMAL CROSS HAIRS and view thru your day scope.
I read your manual and see what you mean about the white dot to centre it. Your manual still recommends to fire a shot and to make a final adjustment to the x&y axis which is what I had to do with mine (and Brian) right from the start cos we have no centering light thing. Yours sounds a lot easier.
My white dot is a bit of twink on the out side i put on scope bell and twink dot on attachment clamp to line up thermal clip on for plume and centre.The clamp attachment is only about .5 mm bigger the scope bell=neat fit,so when clamped,the thermal pretty much centre.i also have a dot of twink on houseing to thimble focas knob just so i know where 300yds focas is.
Caus my scope is 50mm bell diameter and thermal is 50mm.View of day scope just about matchs view of thermal with out dialing up mag to much.Just leave day scope on 2x.
No white dots in centre of screen,nothing,just my 2 dots of twink on the out side.
Iv never use x y cross hairs in my infiray or my run over guide clip on.Most important thing is to have a neat fitting clamp the size of your objective bell.Thermal just about centralises it self on your day scope and a very low base mag on your day scope 1.5 or 2x.
At night lacking a clip on type thermal a few years ago we experimented with attaching a Lazer pointer to a handheld using the tripod mounting screw. Using the picture in picture function you can get a sufficiently precise focus. We shoot at night in teams of 2 taking turns to shoot, one with the thermal the other with a spotlight, just flick the light on to shoot then off or move to the next green dot. We've found it quick, reliable and very effective. A thermal clip on or scope would allow you to go solo but there's a competitive element this way and no boosting your tally.
All night hunting is good,stops my BSC getting worse in the dreaded sun light.
now THAT bit makes sence.....
This is my third thermal clip on.Thats what i do,turn off the cross hairs and use it as a thermal mococular cliped on to the front of my day scope.Most clip ons are a combo,clip on day scope or just use as a monocular.Some instructions just want you to waste ammo and a lot of time.;)
my "interpreation" is thus...your rifle/scope is already sighted in..the clip on thermal just allows you to see in thermal THROUGH existing scope,your Xhairs of existing scope havent changed..like taking photo through scope/binos with cell phone...once you have image centred and things locked in place its good to go..... but yes seperate thread be good.
Easier to drive a nissen thermal than a ranger thermal.lols.Next time the roos hunters are down,we will compare thermal clip ons.
The thing is that your scope is focussed on a flat screen, the cross hairs won't shift but the image your looking at does if the thermal is misaligned. I trialled a thermal clip on from 55six and found it wouldn't realign to within 1.5 mil with repeated attachments. I was taking the whole unit adaptor and all off mind you. Maybe if I'd left the adapter on and unscrewed the unit it might have been better.
All clips-on s have an internal cross hair,more than one design,several.Theres quiet a big menu to get thru,its there tho.So it can be zeroed with yr day scope cross.But i dont bother with that,just use day scope cross,simple.More important to have a neat tightish fitting attachment slide on to yr scope bell which centralises yr clip on view to yr day scope.Make sure both clip on and day scope have a similar fov on low x mag.
Im familiar with the clips and Iv had a ch50 v2 for a couple of years now. Yet to find a cross hair. Your not thinking of the e zoom center adjustment ?
Ye E zoom centre of adjustment cross dot can be alined to yr day scope,but iv never switched it on and used it.My guide clip on had cross hairs but i never bothered with it.
That's for calibrating the e zoom after you have zeroed the clip to your day scope. If you don't center it you will get a point of impact shift when switching magnification with e zoom. It doesn't lock to a profile either so when changing rifles/profile you need to reset it each time.
Our thermal is from Maxtoch. On.Neon golfballs. Boom. Swing to left. More golfballs. Boom. $189US beats 5k plus in our books.
@Tahr What model do you have?
I know someone running a Hikmicro Cheetah NV and they run the small square ret in the background of the clip-on and it makes for fast verification that everything is still in check.
But you are right the Hikmicro clipon image calibration is a head scratcher for a while
That is very unusual , I would say you got lucky. My 223 needed 6.4cm on the y axis and 4.8 on the X while my 243 is Y=3.2 and X= 8 cm . Its not precise as the "clicks" are 1.5cm but not bad and they seem to correlate well from a measurement off the shot target. I had a bit of an issue with repeatability , taking it on and off but sorted now.
The cluster in the center is the last 5-6 trials.
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Apologies for running the thread off topic a little.
If I had to bugger around zeroing and rezeroing clip on, i wouldn't own one.
Initial zeroing is just a part of fitting a new optic but I agree, It needs to be repeatable every time you refit it, if it wasn't I wouldn't use one either. The e zoom calibration is a 20 second exercise in button pushing but only needed when you change profiles so not a deal breaker.
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Makes image calibration a breeze