Christmas came early! Pard DS35 & TA32

The hand held little thermal is very nice. Easy to use, one handed operation, and the image u see in the view finder is very detailed and sharp. I don’t know all the technical terms for sensor size and pixels numbers etc, I just know it’s nice!
After using the old model Pulsar Thermion XP50 for 8 months, I can tell you the little current model Pard TA32-19 handheld has a better, sharper picture than the big, old model, XP50 Thermion rifle scope.
It is also SO much easier to walk around in the dark using a small handheld to see what’s going on around you, then it is to walk around with a rifle permanently in your shoulder, using the scope to see what’s going on around you!!!

The DS35 day/night scope, well, I am very impressed with this scope. Infact I was blown away by it this evening.
I spent a good few hours today setting it up and fiddeling. Setting up the balistic calculator took some effort too.
Was painstaking and tedious measuring heights and getting all the parameters correct so you can just range the distance and the scope works out the drops and shows you where to hold over…. Hummm! 🤔

I went out to a permission this afternoon for some rabbit control and took it along just to test it in a paddock.
I was planning on using a normal day scope for the rabbit control and just testing out the DS35, expecting to still need to make some tweaks before I can use it with confidence.
Well, I put up a triple spinner in a paddock, walked back to 10m and shot the small spinner.
Dead on. Good.
Walked back to 21m and shot the big spinner. Dead on. Good.
Walked back to 35m and shot the big spinner again, Dead on. Wow.
Walked as far back as I could go, back to the fence 47m and shot the big spinner. Still dead on!
I am impressed!!! The 3 “longer” shots were clover leafed in the middle of the spinner!

After that I thought well it’s good to go, so I used it for the rest of the afternoon and into the night, and took my first few bunnies with it.

During the day it is a full colour, very clear, sharp and easy to use digital scope. It is just about as good as any normal optical scope by day. The reticle I have it set on acts like a FFP. By night it is a black and white, infer red scope and just as easy to use as during the day.

So far I’m really loving it. My only gripe is it goes through battery’s faster than I was expecting!!!
But it uses 18650 rechargeable battery’s, so once my wallet has recovered a little, I’ll be getting a few spare ones to keep in my pocket, a quick battery change and we should be good to go all night long.

Small spinner was 10m. The 3 shots on the big spinner were 21m, 34m and 47m, all standing with shooting sticks.

Bummer, I'm probably getting coal again then..... Haha

Awesome good on you