Thread: Early Christmas Present

More on the Arken.
I gave it a spin and shot 3 deer.

By just having it on standby and powering up when I needed it in 6 hours I used hardly any battery. When in standby it takes a millisecond to come on. It takes about 3 seconds from right off.

It's very bright and clear in the field - like looking at a very good TV screen. Without putting the IR on you get about an hours extra hunting after dusk, and I doubt you would need the IR in good moonlight.

For the couple of deer I shot in the daylight it was no problem lining them up and focussing the thing. I shot the first deer at 20 power and the second now I think about it was probably back on 5 x.

I used the IR on a deer at about 250 yards. At the time I thought that would be about as far as you could use it but today I found that you can adjust the beam and I had it adjusted for close so I anticipate that it will be good for over 300 yards. I clicked the magnification up for the deer I shot in the IR and I might have been as high as 20x. Bowled it no trouble anyway.

This thing is hard to fault.
I haven't loaded the ballistics into it yet and for some reason the range finder wouldn't work when I was hunting. Bound to be some setting that Ive got wrong. Once Ive mastered the tech side its going to be a damn handy thing for the private land pest stuff I do.

I like it.