INTO THE LIGHT

At the risk of sounding like what I often am – a bemused old duffer – it can be hard to keep up with technology. There’s always some new gadget coming along to do the same thing a different way.

Take night shooting. We now have an array of infrared night vision systems, digital scopes and even thermal imagers to help us see in the dark.

In an earlier issue we looked at NV kit for around a thousand pounds. And while prices continue to tumble, even for thermal scopes, there’s no getting away from the fact that many of these NV solutions still cost several hundreds of pounds.

So then, if you want to target the bunnies when the sun goes down you just have to save your pennies or make sure you’re on Santa’s good boy or girl list at Christmas, right? Well, I’m not going to deny that digital and NV products aren’t excellent, but there is another way.

I am of course, talking about lamping, a technique that with the advent of all that technology has fallen out of fashion in recent years. But it works as well today as it did before the world went digital.

Back in my salad days, lamping meant carrying around