Local Friday night bunny busting wild rabbits. Plenty of the little buggers about but my 17HMR was hungry tonight. I'll definitely have to hit this place often to mop more rabbits up. Unfortunately they are making a hell of a mess on the open grass areas and underneath a few structures here. As you will see the effectiveness of night vision and passive shooting with the PARD NV008 is very efficient.

Great little hunting trip on the ATV to some new country. We found feral goats, foxes, feral cats and rabbits. Also some wild pig sign as this location certainly holds them. Lots of promise with plenty of great area's. Unfortunately after all the rain since the drought broke the thistles are just so thick and tall. I now have all the boundary and a heap of hot spots plotted out in the GPS. Next trip should be a little easier to navigate around and get more ferals on the deck.

My thoughts and Review on this newly released Olight Javelot Turbo flashlight. Awesome white beam torch for a hunting / shooting light.

My thoughts with plenty of scope footage using the Pulsar Thermion XQ50 Thermal Rifle Scope. Always a lot of money to spend on a thermal rifle scope and the Thermion XQ50 is no exception, These things are expensive. I've put the XQ50 Thermion through some harsh field use over a few months and I'm now ready to let you know my unbiased, unsponsored impression of a thermal scope I purchased as a regular consumer.

I will link below to Arms and Ammo who I purchased the scope from. The staff there had the XQ50 Thermion shipped in overnight and I couldn't be happier with service like that. If you are looking at a pulsar offering it is well worth giving Tommy and the crew a call to see what they can do for you.

This little hunt was in a NSW state forest near Nundle. I'd planned to do some deer and pig hunting while we had a nice night in the bush camping. Mainly I just wanted to spend some time in the forest with my 5yr old little boy and brother in law Steve from 4WD Recon Australia. We are legally permitted to hunt public land under the NSW R license system, So I wasn't passing up the chance to take the 30/06 and have a few little opportunistic hunts while the boys spent some time in camp together. While always positively optimistic about hunting in a busy state forest that has no shortage of pressure. You could imagine my excitement taking a big mountain boar right on the doorstep of camp.

Hunt those marginal skerrick's of first and last light guys, This pig was shot in timbered cover right on the fringe of dawn. I'd awoken in the dark and started scanning with the bino's straight away when light permitted. Fortunately I'm running a high quality Swarovski rifle scope with an illuminated reticle so I could positively ID and aim. Who knows where this big boy was wandering too before the sun popped up.

The journey up to the forest through Glenrock and Barry station was a drive I'd wanted to do for a long time, Steve's 4x4 rig was more than adequate for that task and the scenery was amazing.

This ATV hunting trip was off to a rough start with all the recent rain. The planned hunting property was cancelled mid route and I diverted to another (Fortunately). Unfortunately for all the rabbits I had packed gear for a pig and goat hunt. So the little pests copped it with the 308 Win running 130gr Speer Hollow Points. Massively over-gunned but at least it's ethical, If messy........

I didn't think a specific mouse hunt with thermal was on the cards for me, EVER. But as you will see I certainly thinned a few pests out with the little Lithgow LA101 22LR running the Thermion XQ50 thermal rifle scope. If anything it was excellent shooting practice and a great first official hunt for my new 22LR. Some of you guys thought it entertaining that I shot a mouse with my 308win recently. Well I can assure you the 22LR shooting CCI Stingers at 1620fps had a better result with much less noise and cost.

I gain a lot of my private property access to do specific pest control for the owners. If they call for a little hand, I'll do what I can. After talking to the 72yr old farmer he has only seen a mouse plague like this 3 times in all his years. Certainly something I have not experienced. And I can only imagine how annoying it must be living out there. It was an odd thing with that many mice about, they are quite vocal in the paddocks at night chirping and squeeking at one another as they scurry around.

I very nearly called this video mouse masacre but though it was rough enough without that fanfare.

Hunting Aussie predators, AKA - Wild Dogs and Foxes. This is the first use for my freshly customised Tikka T3 with a carbon fibre wrapped barrel and carbon fibre rifle stock. Cartridge choice I have gone with 6mm BR. Very happy with it so far.

This specific property has sustained some recent livestock losses to the wild dogs unfortunately. No they are NOT dingo's I'm hunting. As usual foxes are on the cards only once I've exhausted options on the wild dogs.

A short little fallow deer hunt to fill my freezer with fresh venison. Was also the 1st deer down for my new custom 30-06 running 178 grain Hornady ELD-X projectiles.

With the NSW mouse plague still in full swing I was back into a few with the rifles and thermal. This time I was shooting the vermin with my 6BR and 204 Ruger fitted with a Pulsar Thermion XQ50 thermal rifle scope. The rabbits were also about but I've certainly put a dent in those in the last few months compared to what they were.

Mice shooting certainly makes for a challenging small target that is often not very static. The little buggers jump and scurry around like crazy.

Rabbit hunting with my new custom Tikka T3 chambered in 6mm BR. This was a quick overnight zip up to a property I hunt in the New England of NSW, Australia. I had the ATV Quadbike in tow and a few tools to thin a few problem rabbits out. The rabbits have been doing a bit of damage to a freshly sown crop of oats and lucerne, This video like most of mine is purley pest control. I'm not shooting them for the pot.

As usual there are always a few troublesome foxes around to hammer as well.

You can probably tell but I'm very happy with how the new 6BR is working out. The carbon fibre stock is very comfortable to shoot in all field positions I encounter. And the carbon fibre wrapped barrel is fantastic so far. Zero complaints running either 75 or 87 grain V-Max's through it.

Hunting predator species in Australia at night, AKA - Wild Dogs and Foxes. This is an activity I'm out doing a few nights a week with my thermal hunting equipment. Currently running both a thermal scanner and thermal scope. Wicked combo and it certainly changes the odds in the dark.

Shooting foxes is just something I action if the dog sign is minimal and no wild dog sightings have occurred on the properties.

There has been some local livestock loss in this area but the wild dogs have been very fickle for weeks. Activity is very sporadic and they are very brazen animals. Some kills have been house pets 40 meters from a home.

2021 Fallow Deer Rut - I've been keen as to get out hunting fallow bucks this year after the debacle that was 2020 and COVID lockdowns. Like most Hunter Valley NSW deer habitat, Feral pig numbers have certainly spiked recently with some big boars getting around in prime condition.

This is part #1 of a two part series on my late March adventures hunting these amazing animals. Feral and introduced game these critters may be. But as passionate hunters we cherish the opportunity in the rut for dynamic hunting.

Great night out shooting foxes with the new Thermion 2 XP50 thermal scope made by Pulsar. I haven't been out on these local lucerne flats for a little while, as usual the foxes were about on the prowl. Few other foxes sighted in the surrounding paddocks I don't have access to be on. So another trip will be on the cards soon now I've cleared some existing fox territory.

I've seen some animal footage of this new Thermion 2 XP50 but not anything in the hunting space I don't believe. This might be some of the first kill footage on YouTube so far.

I will be doing a proper review in time on the Thermion 2 XP50. Just be patient please as I'd like to play with it more to evaluate across varied conditions and animals. The new 25mK sensor and 50mm F1.0 lens do seem to do a stellar task. Conditions last night were around 10°C with high humidity. A thick fog rolled in on my way out the front gate. Certainly an amicable test for the new sensor.

This is my 2nd deer hunting trip for fallow bucks during the 2021 rut. Amazing animals to hunt and the 30-06 Tikka rifle is certainly up to the task running 178gr Hornady ELD-X's. I hope you all enjoy these VLog style short hunting video's. It's certainly a challenge to hunt these deer let alone the complexity of self filming things as it all happens.

The new Thermion 2 XP50 thermal rifle scope sure is a cool new tool / toy. In this comparison video I'll pass on my impressions and opinion as a user of the Thermion XQ50 for the last year. Upgrading to the Thermion 2 XP50 is more to improve the quality of my thermal hunting and shooting footage in the YouTube video's. I might as well pass on my review as a general user. I know there's many biased opinions in the expensive thermal game so hopefully I'm not too biased in my thoughts.

This property I was invited out to do some pest control shooting of foxes and rabbits. Certainly a few about for a small block and I was aiming for headshot s to fill the freezer. Poor conditions and I'll be looking forward to better weather and no fog next time. Still the little Lithgow LA101 17HMR was running well with the PARD NV008 LRF night vision scope.

Shooting pigs / hogs on and around a sorghum crop with my 308 Winchester rifle. Bonus invasive feral cats and foxes cop the hammer too. Great trip on the ATV shooting these feral animals with the thermal equipment. Challenging to get the buggers with so much cover in the crop. They only come out to drink and mainly in the wee hours of the morning, Worth the effort though.

For those interested I'm shooting a Ruger American Predator 18" chambered in 308 Winchester. Fitted into a MDT Gen 2 LSS chassis and running reloads with 150 grain Hornady SST projectiles. My thermal scope is a Pulsar Thermion 2 XP50.

Final tally was 15 pigs, 4 feral cats and 10 foxes.