night scopes

[aland]

Does any one use one of these, are they worth one hundred & sixty pounds, bushnell 2x24 night scopes, or does any one know of one better but not too expensive, thanks.
p/s for owls and fox watching.

[shenk1]

Sorry I can't help but I've been looking at this type of thing for ages now and faced the same dilemma. I'll be very interested in the answers as I'd like one but with slightly higher (3x - 4x) magnification to look out over the field and canal behind us .Also what distance can you see with one in this price range?
Sorry for jumping in but I'm glad you asked
Cheers shenk1

[Jim Ford]

There was a thread on 'night scopes' a year or so back. AIRC users of the type you're considering seemed to say that they're a bit of fun, but limited and not really very useful. Do a forum search and you'll find the thread.

Jim

[aland]

Thanks jim, will do that and take a look over old threads, I expect like every thing else you only get what you pay for, its just that we have some resident foxes that are very elusive as they need to be and we have discovered a way to pull in owls around our stables after years of trying, just simply place food for the foxes away from the buildings and the rats come out looking from under the straw bales and before long we have owls hooting all around but we cannot see them very well, keep well.