Christmas came early! Pard DS35 & TA32

Oh Jawb,

Hi Jawb,

Thanks for the tip about the lap top battery’s. (I’m assuming you meant to reply to this thread 😂)
My son happened to have destroyed a laptop a few months ago (all in the name of science), and last night I pulled the battery pack apart to reveal six 18650’s 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
They are all spot welded together, so I need to figure out how to get them apart and clean up the terminals, then I’ll look into the voltage testing you mentioned.
Many thanks 👍🏻
Pete.

It’s a game changer 👍🏻

So Ive had a few chances to use these two new pieces of kit.

I am still impressed with the DS35-70, but man it can eat battery’s.
As soon as I have a bit of cash again I’m going to get 4 spare battery’s and a multi charger, then that problem will be solved. Luckily the 18650 rechargeable battery’s are very common and easy to find online.

I used both the scope and the hand held thermal tonight. The handheld thermal also uses an 18650 battery (they are identical and inter changable, so a few spare battery’s will work in either one) but it seems to be a bit less demanding on power then the scope and a fully charged battery will probably get me through 2 nights of pest control, so 5 or 6 hours use. The DS35 infer red scope I used sparingly tonight, and put it to sleep when ever I was not using it. Used it for about 2hours tonight (sparingly) and I finished with about a quarter battery left. If I had 2 or 3 spare fully charged battery’s in my pocket I would easily be able to do a full 5 hour session and not have to worry about turning on and off and on and off 👍🏻

A funny thing happened tonight with the balistic calculator in the scope.
I had a rabbit sitting at the base of a tree, behind a barbed wire fence.
LRF said 56m and the calculator worked out an aim point. I shot and lost sight of the pellet. Sounded like it hit the tree above the rabbit. Rabbit didnt move. I repeated the whole excersize, and got the same result!
Now I was getting annoyed. Was the fence messing around with the LRF?? Was the calculator wrong or was I doing something wrong??
Anyway, 2 more missed shots later I told my self I was just wasting pellets, it was a lucky bunny, and I moved on.

Next rabbit was ranged at 27m, stright forward shot, calculator worked out an aim point (this is when I should have picked up there was a problem!) and I shot, over its head 😡
Then I thought, hang on. This profile has been zeroed at 30y, which is 27m, so the calculator should have told me to aim dead on, no hold over, but it gave me an aim point about 1.5 mil down…???
Something’s not right. I was sure that I had changed the profile to the correct one earlier, but I went through it all again, it all seemed correct. I ranged an object at 27m again and this time it gave me the correct aim point 🤔

So I don’t know if it was the LRF (I don’t think so) or the balistic calculator (maybe) or if it is my Inexperience in using the scope/selecting the correct profile, making sure everything was right before I started shooting…?
I’ll put it down to my i experiance with this new scope.
What ever it was it cost me 2 rabbits. But the scope was fine after that for the rest of the night.
Managed to get 8 rabbits.
When I got home I added up all the rabbits I have shot on that permission, and the last one I shot tonight was number 100 on that permission 😳

New pard looks great Pete. I have the NV008S but without LRF and love it. Complete gamechanger for night shooting vs a regular torch.