Christmas came early! Pard DS35 & TA32
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Topic: Christmas came early! Pard DS35 & TA32
Posted By: RangerPete
Subject: Christmas came early! Pard DS35 & TA32
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2023 at 8:28pm
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Christmas came early to my house today!!! Just took delivery of a Pard DS35 infed red scope, with LRF, and a Pard TA32-19 LRF. Havent had time to play with the DS35, will start reading the owners manual tonight, but I did have a chance to get the TA32-19 thermal monocular up and running this afternoon. Took it out for a play during a late afternoon shoot at a new permission I have just got. Loads of bunnies out and about in the late afternoon. My little Elly with a NS 6-24x50 FFP was knocking them over shot after shot! The TA32 is very nice. Small enough to hold and operate with one hand. Very sharp and detailed picture. And the range finder is such a nice tool to have! Feeling very spoilt! I got the 19mm focal length which gives a wide field of view, which is all I want when scanning paddocks for rabbits. I was very pleased with it today. Will post more thoughts on it as I use it more, along with the DS35-70LRF.  ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
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Posted By: Billbobnz
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2023 at 9:04pm
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Bummer, I'm probably getting coal again then..... Haha Awesome good on you |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2023 at 10:02pm
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Don’t worry Billbob, a bit of coal won’t kill you, I get the feeling you’ve got enough toys to play with already 😂😂😂 ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2023 at 10:45pm
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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.    ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2023 at 7:56am
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A guy can't ask for anything more than new toys, and you've got some beauties there. You could get a separate IR torch to make the batteries last longer. They are pretty cheap on Aliexpress. We'll be looking forward to some video footage then.
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Posted By: jwabfrog
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2023 at 9:23am
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New pard looks great Pete. I have the NV008S but without LRF and love it. Complete gamechanger for night shooting vs a regular torch. I can recommend 'Convoy C8' torches off AliExpress. They are programmable so you can adjust brightness and come in 850 and 940nm options. They also use 18650s so common battery with the Pard.
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Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2023 at 7:21pm
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Envious. 👍 |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2023 at 10:53pm
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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 😳 ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2023 at 5:19am
| Night/thermal vision certainly would be an ace up the sleeve. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2023 at 9:07am
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It’s a game changer 👍🏻 ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2023 at 10:58am
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It happened again last night. I was sure I had changed the profile from profile B to profile A, ranged a spinner and the balistic calculator again gave me a wrong reading. I know it was wrong because I know where it should have been. I have been going into the “reticle adjustment” menu and trying to change profiles. I think that’s where I’m going wrong. It seems that both times the profile has actually only changed after I have then gone into the “balistic calculator” menu and changed the profile there… 🤔 I guess experiance really is the best teacher 😉 ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2023 at 11:10am
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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. ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2023 at 9:35pm
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I have been playing around with the record function on the Pard DS35 and got one or two video clips. Figured out how to send them to my phone. From the phone I down loaded them onto my computer. Then joined them together to make a video. Then I created a you tube account, and up loaded the video... Been a long day! For now I've kept it as "unlisted" meaning its not available to the public, you can only watch it if you have the link. Here is the link, ----- scroll down to my post saying 3rd times a charm. Its my first attempt, so let me know what you think. Still trying to decide if I want a Pest Control you tube channel, if I can make worth while videos, what are the benefits, is it worth the effort, is there going to be hate mail etc etc.
------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2023 at 9:37pm
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Oh Jawb, I managed to get 5 good 18650 cells from that computer, which last about 30min each. Thats 2.5 hours of free betterys! Was a great tip, thanks man! ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2023 at 10:09pm
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Nothing came up when I pasted that. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2023 at 10:29am
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Scroll down to my post that says "3rd times a charm" - that link works. ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2023 at 11:04am
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Great honest video. Perhaps a couple of things I'd drop if its going to be viewed by potential clients. As a shooter I relate to it. Scope looks like an awsome advantage. Envious you've got possums. How fast do you recon that wind was? |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2023 at 12:29pm
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OK, THIRD TIMES A CHARMER!!! I deleted it and uploaded it again. This link works... https://youtu.be/yY3msxDK2Zk Thanks Kruza.
Wasnt really intended for future clients, just as a video/youtube channel. I havent decided yet if I want a you tube channel, are there benefits, is it worth it etc. ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2023 at 1:06pm
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Great stuff. Gee that ballistic stuff is good isn't it? What app did you use to edit the video? I use Youcut. it's free
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Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2023 at 3:52pm
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Ja the balistic calculator is great, IF u get it set up correctly! I know mine is shooting slightly high at most distances. I need to tweek the scope height (in the balistic calculator, not the actual scope height). But I need a 70m shooting range and a still day to play with that and get it right. So for now I just hold a touch under. But I’ll get it right 👍🏻 I have a program called iMovie on my Mac, which is what I used to join the clips and edit them. Was trying to figure it out and learn as I went. ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2023 at 10:12pm
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I decided to delete that video from you tube, then spent most of the day re-editing it and adding more footage from last nights cull. This is actually version 3, which I’m now happy with so this will probably be my first video on my channel. Here is the link to the final and improved version. Let me know if you think there is anything I can do to improve it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tgP2t3NunY ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: jwabfrog
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2023 at 10:22pm
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Awesome vid, love the on the job shot! Ha ha |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2023 at 6:00pm
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Thanks Jwab. Felt a bit guilty shooting the poor guy, but hey, what a way to go 😂😂😂 ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2023 at 6:59am
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That's a way better video. Can't believe that scope automatically puts up the hold over. Great set up must make rabbit shooting a lot of fun. Don't think I'd hire you after that video. There would be nothing left for me too hunt! Great shooting. Great video. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2023 at 8:21am
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Thanks Kruza. ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |