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    Jerry Burgan

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Evening All! Do any Buzzers have experience and recommendations positive and/or negative wrt Night-Vision scopes / binoculars / rifle sights as I am looking to see in the dark to watch Hoggies, field mice, owls, foxes Bodge-the-Badgers and any other nocturnal garden happenings (not dogging, although I am not aware of any to date in my particular patch!) (:O))))))

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    • Jerry, have you considered cctv and an infra red floodlight, leaves them in darkness and gives you a live, recordable black and white image

      • Hi Phil, thanks for your reply (:O)))). Up until March this year, I had a network of eight cameras (2xPTZ + 6x fixed in various nests and HogHouses and feed pavilions), which I dismantled, and removed all of the multiple required cables installed around the garden in order to complete my “QUICK SALE” of my house. Regrettably, two sets of grubby little amoral beings threw two successive bombs into my chain and I am still here, with six people after the house but none of them proceedable. I will also be more than 40k worse off due to their actions. The point is that those two-legged vermin have also ruined any possibility of my recording and filming what turned out to be a brilliant spring/summer/autumn wildlife season in my garden, with more Hogs here than on a pig farm – albeit spiky ones! So, yes, I have a couple of cases full of colour/IR cameras and associated network hubs, power and PoE cables, and a very nice NVR back in it’s box, but nowt at present with which to view the Hoggies etc at night! I did look on the ‘net last night at the scope of the scopes, rifle sights, and monoculars out there, and the plethora is befuddling, with some very nice looking ones at £4.5k (!) and some really crappy-looking ones at £25 and an astonishing range in between. I shall probably stuff my hands in my pockets and keep them there in self-defence and in order to – eventually – fork out for the elevated property price and the stamp duty that I was well on course for avoiding having to pay!

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