Sporting Rifle

All quiet on the foxing front

An interesting package arrived at my door the other day, containing the latest hand-held thermal spotter, the Pulsar Axion Key XM30. I’ve written many times before about how thermal technology has changed the game for fox shooters, not to mention its many other uses.

I heard recently that Darryl Pace of Pace Brothers fame has been using a thermal camera mounted on a drone to locate wader nests on keepered moorland, as part of a research project with the German game conservancy. It’s remarkable how people find ingenious uses for technology once it gets into the hands of shooters, who as we all know are the real conservationists, not some charities whose main aim seems to be to obliterate shooting in their quest for money and power.

Rant over! This new Pulsar spotter is billed as a replacement for the hugely popular Quantum Lite series of thermal imagers, and comes in at a similar price of around £1,270 for the basic model. It follows the

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