Thread: Video: Night-Vision Pest control T1x 17hmr & Pard NV008

Here's a quick montage of a few shots from some pest shooting on a local orchard last night.

A couple of average shots on the pair to start the night, hit them a little low, but they died pretty quick all the same.

I use to head shoot rabbits mainly, but after a comment from a professional pest controller on here about the potential for bullets passing thru, I try to body shoot most now, especially on the smaller properties that are quite built up, with roads close by and big plastic fertigation tanks etc, I don't need ricochets or pass-throughs carrying on and hitting something else. Also with the Pard 008 sitting so high compared to a standard scope mounted in rings, it messes with the trajectory and PBR etc, and with no range finder, some of the close shots hit a bit lower than the aiming point, so body shooting gives a little more margin for range/trajectory error inside of the PBR of around 150 yards.

I'm using a Pard NV019 Handheld IR scanner to find them, and shooting with a Pard NV008 IR digital night vision scope mounted on a Tikka T1x in 17 Hmr. I'm running one of @Kiwi-Hunter's External IR Illuminators fitted on the side of the Pard.