A year in the spotlight
A lot of people are moving to thermal riflescopes for fox shooting now, and with good reason. Fox shooters were quick to adopt infrared night vision when it became affordable, and that completely changed the game from the days of waving a lamp around. Now thermal technology has developed to the point where the quality is frankly superb, and prices are within reach of most well-heeled amateurs as well as professional gamekeepers and pest controllers.
Thermal has several advantages over night vision, too – not least that it’s entirely passive. It requires no light of any sort, not even the infrared which is certainly visible to some foxes – even if they don’t all react to it. Provided you have good fieldcraft skills, so you don’t alert your quarry with sound or scent, you can spot and shoot a fox without it ever having a chance to know you’re there.
LONG TERM TEST
This time last year I got my hands on a Pulsar Thermion XM50
