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Winter is well and truly here, and without doubt it is my favourite and most productive time of the year for hunting rabbits and rats.
Thousands of years of evolution has given pest species superpowers to help avoid predators at night and although our senses become heightened in the dark thanks to our ancient DNA, we are still woefully under-equipped – unless you are fortunate enough to be able to bridge the gap with technology of course.
Last month we looked at a range of infrared scopes that work as well during the day as they do at night.
In this issue, we've put some of the best thermal scopes through their paces. And whilst they can be used during the day, it's at night when they really come into their own, picking up heat signatures and turning them into images that we can target.
RUAG Ammotec has loaned us the venerable ATN Mars 4 which, priced at £2949, has been around for a while but is still hard to beat. Highland Outdoors stocks the entire Saim range and has
