Scirocco´s new toy …
Cricket WST .22 with Falcon Menace 4-14 FFP scope and PVS 14 Night Vision.
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Yea…$3700 bucks can buy a lot of nice toys. This may be the ultimate addition to complete the package, but I have too much stuff to buy at the moment! Maybe I can find something from Poland for half the price….I know a guy that knows a guy.
hi dr steele
yes it was a lot of money, but its a tool to me, i do a lot of very serious fox control,i shoot feral pigeons in london for some very high profile people also,and i just love rat shooting around the pheasant and partridge feeders
rgds steve
m also a nite owl
with a good quality scope,and moon ,you dont need nite vision,we shoot pigs in germany by moonlight,sounds like you have great hunting,ive only shot one racoon,and that was in poland,there spreading pretty rapidly throughout germany
rgds steve
For sparrows I have 9 – 21″ pellet proof (all steel) feeders loaded with sunflower seeds. For coons I sometimes use a FoxPro caller with coons fighting but they tend to come in on their own and eat everything. It brings them in during the day. They fall under our pest nuisance rules rather than a hunting license. I have motion sensors outside on the garbage cans and feeders (they drive my wife nuts). We toss corn for the deer but we don’t hunt them near the house.
Do you use any calls or any feeders or just shoot when the opportunity arises?
My hunting zone is my back yard 🙂 and the heavy hilly woods behind it. Coons are basically unlimited and frequent marauders to my coon-proof garbage cans. Lots red foxes, opossums, some armadillos now, and a few skunks, coyotes, and a rare bobcat.
I’m a night owl guys….night hunting for me is PERFECT. We have tons of rabbits, coyotes, bobcats, armadillos, raccoons….there are 5 places that I can go within 20 miles….and I’ll be the only one there within a 1/4 mile. When the moon is right that night vision would be amazing!
There are more reasonable alternatives to night vision but not at that level of quality, clarity, and brightness. If you don’t mind being seen with a IR blaster by other guys with night scopes the latest 1+ units work well enough for coons out to 75 yards or more and 5x for about $500 US.
Yea…$3700 bucks can buy a lot of nice toys. This may be the ultimate addition to complete the package, but I have too much stuff to buy at the moment! Maybe I can find something from Poland for half the price….I know a guy that knows a guy.
Hi Steve
Yea…$3700 bucks can buy a lot of nice toys. This may be the ultimate addition to complete the package, but I have too much stuff to buy at the moment! Maybe I can find something from Poland for half the price….I know a guy that knows a guy.
hi secoda, a lot of foxes!!!! and rabbits ,hares and feral pigeons
rgds steve
So what do you blast at night?
mine was just a shade under 3700 dollars,and yep would be grat for raccoons!!
rgds steve
Ouch those look to be about $3000 US? Them would be first rate raccoons. 🙂
hi secoda
its an pvs 14 nite vsion unit mounted on the back of my scope
rgds steve
it is really disbelief if you have any version of night visions here.
nice to see your hunting equipment, ,,,,
hi hemn
i use nite vision on my powder burners also!!!
edgun more powerful? yes AT THE MOMENT ,,im no stranger to pcps!! most probably wouldnt get the same shot count ,but t will be no problem getting the power up there?????,i will buy a 25 calibre edgun next year just to try one,i can then compare,
rgds steve
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They are a true pest here. I have lived here over 20 years and shot hundreds of them. The more I shoot the more they come like our grey squirrels. They are out of control too. an I ship a few hundred over? We have a limit of 20 squirrels at a time and a 10 month season in the woods (on a license vs pests around the house) but they are about to lift it with the overpopulation I heard.
m also a nite owl
with a good quality scope,and moon ,you dont need nite vision,we shoot pigs in germany by moonlight,sounds like you have great hunting,ive only shot one racoon,and that was in poland,there spreading pretty rapidly throughout germany
rgds steve