When it comes to feeding your family who cares what tech device you use or whether it is either a sporting chance or not you are on your own property and everyone else can go fly a kite lol. I like the friendly competition you all have with each other and give one another some verbal stick lol. Great video enjoy that meat & stay safe.
Thanks mate. Yea it does crack us up a bit how people get upset about you using thermal equipment on your own property to cull deer. But thermals are just one of those things that people just get angry about😂
Great couple of hunts lads nice peace of kit , i had to run through the comments haha mostly positive 😄 it can be easy, but they get smarter if you thermal them a bit, its just different stile of hunting 😉 keep them videos coming and great work on the edit as i know making a video with multiple recordings of different devices take a lot of effort 👌
Thanks mate. Yea it’s not for everyone. We knew some people would hate it but when you want to put a dent in numbers it’s hard to beat. Cheers for the comment. Definitely took a bit of editing🤙
i cant believe all the bad press you're getting! If you've got a deer problem (which it seems you have) then you need to control them. How you do it is up to you, it's your place after all. I have no problem with using thermal gear to do that if it helps. Yeah, shame about the old stag, that's probably the only downside but always enjoy your vids, keep it up, it encourages us to keep at it as well. Cheers.
Yea spot on mate. Some people just feel really strongly about them for whatever reason but like you say on your own land when numbers need controlling it’s a great tool. Cheers for the comment👍
Hi mate. I always use 4x4 cm alu tape for zeroing thermal scopes. It gives you a nice sharpe image, not blury like with the heating pads. Put it on cardboard and angle it to the sky a bit.
I paid $9000 for my pulsar thermal and after 7 months the internal battery failed so took it back to Hunting and thieving while it was still under warranty and they've sent it to Lithuania and it's been gone over 3 months now and could take 4 months, bloody ridiculous after sales service.
Your contract is with H&F not Pulsar so tell H&F to replace it under the consumer protection act and they can sort it out with pulsar - but that is not your problem
I’m running the same scope, unfortunately minimal deer in Western Australia so mainly foxes. normally take my non thermal rifle for sighting in to check the hits. Have you had a play with the ballistic calculator? It’s pretty impressive. It’s real cool how you can use the thermals with good success during the day in NZ. Not so lucky with the heat in Western Australia!
you don't need the eyepiece at those distances really, helps to have the eyepiece if you're up close and don't want the scope lighting your face up which spooks some weary ones. I sometimes stalk to 5-10m with my thermal so use the eyepiece
Honestly mate we are just getting the hang of using it. Seemed to be fine without it but like the other reply to you comment said it was probably because we were shooting from a bit of a distance.
Great vid guys. What is the battery life like? Would it last 2-3 hrs with recording? Does it have 2 batteries? I see it says bat 1 and bat2 on the bottom.
Battery one is a internal battery for the scope to do all ya range finds and other options and battery 2 is to run the scope You’ll normally get 4-5 hours on battery being in sleep mode and recording here and there
It's still hunting like doesn't matter if they shooting 1 or 100 or if they stalk in or shoot deer just standing there watching them culling is still hunting.
People value hunting wild deer for sport and to harvest venison. But, unless their numbers are managed, wild deer can damage native plants - in some places they threaten how ecosystems function. DEER IN NEW ZEALAND ARE NOT NATURAL AND DONT HAVE PREDATORS. everyone needs to have an open mind. Here in the states we need tags so we don't overharvest. In new Zealand they have depredation tags to manage numbers. Its all legal and scientific based. Seven species of deer have been established in the wild in New Zealand: Red deer (Cervus elaphus scoticus) Wapiti (C.elaphus nelsoni) Sika deer (C. nippon) Sambar (C. unicolor) Russa deer (C. timorensis) Fallow deer (Dama dama) White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) In New Zealand, deer have no natural predators. This means they can grow to large numbers without the support of hunters and others to aid in their management. Deer populations have been building over the past couple of decades across the country. This is because they have been harvested at a lower level than their breeding rate. As numbers have increased, deer have moved into new areas to search for food. Deer damage native forests by feeding on forest plants, trees, and seedlings. They start with the native plants they prefer most such as schefflera, broadleaf, and hen and chicken fern in forest understory's. Then they will move on to plants they like less. This can result in large groups of deer mainly eating falling leaves from canopy trees. In subalpine areas, deer can damage tall tussocks and wildflowers like alpine buttercups. By targeting these plants deer can change their composition of plants. This takes vital food and shelter from other animals. Over time this can hinder or stop forest regeneration. Managing wild deer to reverse these effects will help protect native species and increase forests' health and resilience in dealing with climate change. www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/animal-pests-and-threats/deer/
NZ is over-run with pest populations of deer, tahr, pigs, goats & possums and hunters who don't contribute to pest control. But complain bitterly when the government tries to save a few areas from being severely modified by overbrowsing and tracking etc. Plenty of "pest control" managers and operators demonstrate their prowess by perpetrating the ongoing nature of excessive pest numbers, and in some cases attempting to mollify teh noise from the 90% of "hunters" who are a waste of space for any positive pest control (but have every right to participate in sporting hunting when & where legal).
I had some problems using the Winchester super X through my 7mm08 as the bullets were seated completely different from each other when through 3 boxes all the same.
I spent my hard earned money on one of these over priced pieces of shit, used it for two years and found the following, great way to screw up an accurate rifle mostly cause the image is shit and you can't actually see your target, noticed you efforts on the heat target and the crap clarity on the first two you shot, try zooming in and it's like your in Lego Land, I'll take a good quality scope and accurate rifle and the trusty Olight. They talk and promote them as shoot shit out to 400, yeh right that's if you can see past 200. Anyhow that was my experience with an $8000 scope, the monoculars are great for farm work they just seem to have much better clarity I still use that especially during calving to monitor stock.
Both of you shot the further away deer on 4x magnification when you had 8 and 16x available. You should be more familiar with new gear before using it on animals. I have had an earlier version of this scope for 5 years now and they are brilliant.
First things first get the sight picture if focus; and THEN make sure you get 1 shot 1 kill Otherwise you’re just making them suffer and yes I’ve shot before
The high end high quality ones are definitely not cheap. I think the scope is around $9,500 on the gun city website so not something most people can afford. But I suppose for the people that do have that kind of money it’s a pretty cool bit of kit. We are stoked to get to use it as sponsorship to see what it’s like.
Something is terribly wrong here, guys. Since when did deer become "pests" ? Venison is some of the finest table fare in existence, and should "never" be wasted. GET IT !
@@clarkeboyshunting They are a pest, that have some uses (meat & sport). Leaving them to recycle isn't waste. The fact the overwhelming majority of hunters have no clue how many are out there and the damage they do, and those hunters are incapable of doing any meaningful pest control speaks volumes. Almost as much as those "hunters" do about management. Managing them by shooting about 1 in 5 is educating them, and knocking over the best stags is like shooting the stud ram for dog tucker. On private land that's the landowner's prerogative to manage them how they want, as long as they aren't fostering them in any neighbouring land with different objectives. Like public land.
Can’t believe you lads went from being ethical to stooping to thermal’s certainly not going to watch anymore of your utube clips disrespectful to that old stag and all ethical hunters
Wow! Can't wait for satellite lazer shooting technology! We'll all be able to keep our faces planted firmly in our phone-screens 24/7 then, and then we can prod buttons from our living rooms and shoot any big stags we want with our guided thermal lazers! The days of old cunning bush stags kicking our arses will be over.... Wow, won't that be another great advancement for us all!
@@NZ-Culler No, but if you yourself switch your panties to the non-twist type you won't have to keep buying them in bulk-lots like you have been... But you can carry on anyway if you like... Thank you. Next...
@@NZ-Culler And further, just to prove how magnanimous I am, if you post your heart-felt apology to me within twelve hours I will consider giving you leniency on your comments regarding this extremely serious earth-shattering life-changing subject that is currently impacting everyones day across the planet and likely causing consternation to those living even further out in our galaxy and beyond...
U guys are my favorite TH-cam channel
Thanks mate that’s awesome
When it comes to feeding your family who cares what tech device you use or whether it is either a sporting chance or not you are on your own property and everyone else can go fly a kite lol. I like the friendly competition you all have with each other and give one another some verbal stick lol. Great video enjoy that meat & stay safe.
Thanks mate. Yea it does crack us up a bit how people get upset about you using thermal equipment on your own property to cull deer. But thermals are just one of those things that people just get angry about😂
Much better than a 1080 cull.
Fantastic video, well done! Good to see you using Pulsar like all the pro pest controllers around NZ. I think you'll need a bigger freezer though 😀
Great couple of hunts lads nice peace of kit , i had to run through the comments haha mostly positive 😄 it can be easy, but they get smarter if you thermal them a bit, its just different stile of hunting 😉 keep them videos coming and great work on the edit as i know making a video with multiple recordings of different devices take a lot of effort 👌
Thanks mate. Yea it’s not for everyone. We knew some people would hate it but when you want to put a dent in numbers it’s hard to beat. Cheers for the comment. Definitely took a bit of editing🤙
i cant believe all the bad press you're getting! If you've got a deer problem (which it seems you have) then you need to control them. How you do it is up to you, it's your place after all. I have no problem with using thermal gear to do that if it helps. Yeah, shame about the old stag, that's probably the only downside but always enjoy your vids, keep it up, it encourages us to keep at it as well. Cheers.
Yea spot on mate. Some people just feel really strongly about them for whatever reason but like you say on your own land when numbers need controlling it’s a great tool. Cheers for the comment👍
Far out thats awesome lads, good bit a gear there and another quality video. Might hve found my next purchase haha
Thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Good mahi lads awesome stag aswell freezers are full cheers guys
Yea mate chocka! Cheers for watching
always a bloody good day when u brothers post keep it up guys 😊
Cheers mate🤙
Awesome bit of kit that pulsar
Awesome video guys 😎👍
The one I have used can be set up and switched between multiple rifles
They are awesome 👍👍👍
Yea mate they are pretty impressive technology. Easy to use and bloody effective!
insane vid that is a good way to control deer numbers
Yea mate unreal. Thanks👍
Hi mate. I always use 4x4 cm alu tape for zeroing thermal scopes. It gives you a nice sharpe image, not blury like with the heating pads. Put it on cardboard and angle it to the sky a bit.
Or aluminium foil works so good!
@@m4qnus
I used alu foil to zero my Stellar SH50.
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@@m4qnus in my zeroing videos im using alu foil. Great .
Thanks for the info!
I paid $9000 for my pulsar thermal and after 7 months the internal battery failed so took it back to Hunting and thieving while it was still under warranty and they've sent it to Lithuania and it's been gone over 3 months now and could take 4 months, bloody ridiculous after sales service.
Contact Advanced Optics, they have loan scopes for warranty failures. Surprised you weren't offered one.
That’s sucks mate! Definitely contact Advanced Optics. They will hopefully be able to sort the problem for you and you can get back into it!
Your contract is with H&F not Pulsar so tell H&F to replace it under the consumer protection act and they can sort it out with pulsar - but that is not your problem
Great stuff bloody good tool for the job
Thanks 👍
I’m running the same scope, unfortunately minimal deer in Western Australia so mainly foxes. normally take my non thermal rifle for sighting in to check the hits. Have you had a play with the ballistic calculator? It’s pretty impressive.
It’s real cool how you can use the thermals with good success during the day in NZ. Not so lucky with the heat in Western Australia!
Bullet Drop at 300 is roughly 8” so Ballistic calculation definitely worth while👍🏻
Yea that’s the next thing for us to try out. It sounds pretty cool. Next time we get out and film using it hopefully we’ve figured that part out👍
You won't be able to own a gun in WA in 3 years
love the content guys.I wish I could have a thermal scope for my 308
love the night hunting good on u. can u till the price of the night vision scope ?thank u
$9500 for the scope and $7500 for the scanner 😂
Great video lads. What bullets are you running through your 7mm 08
Winchester 140 grain PowerPoints
Hey boys any chance another podcast comming up with Pete.cheeers Boys mean vid.awesome pest control tool
I need to get me one of those scopes, awesome
Good stuff boys, but why are you not using the magnetic eyepiece?
you don't need the eyepiece at those distances really, helps to have the eyepiece if you're up close and don't want the scope lighting your face up which spooks some weary ones. I sometimes stalk to 5-10m with my thermal so use the eyepiece
Honestly mate we are just getting the hang of using it. Seemed to be fine without it but like the other reply to you comment said it was probably because we were shooting from a bit of a distance.
.nice work that scope is the ducks nutz
Great vid guys. What is the battery life like? Would it last 2-3 hrs with recording? Does it have 2 batteries? I see it says bat 1 and bat2 on the bottom.
Battery one is a internal battery for the scope to do all ya range finds and other options and battery 2 is to run the scope
You’ll normally get 4-5 hours on battery being in sleep mode and recording here and there
The bro Kane has answered the question better than I could have myself. Cheers brother🤙
good work!
Thanks!
Are they legal to use in australia ?
Great stuff ! What make/model of gun are you using?
There using a 7mm 08
It’s a browning A bolt
@shiftykiwi Thankyou.
Spot on with the comments lads👌
Great❤ congratulations
Thank you!!
What an excellent night ! It looks like outside of 200m they don't spook and you don't have to stalk again.
Enter your ballistic data into the app and Bluetooth it to your scope, you will.have automatic holdover marks appear on your reticle
Yea that’s the next thing to try. Sounds pretty cool👍
How do I purchase your knife
They are for sale on the Victory knives website. Here’s the link👍 victoryknives.co.nz/clarke-boys-hunting-knife/
Shooting/Culling, not hunting lads. Don't get confused.
It's still hunting like doesn't matter if they shooting 1 or 100 or if they stalk in or shoot deer just standing there watching them culling is still hunting.
Sounds like some1 dosent have thermal 😂, if it fills the freezer and gets you of the couch who cares
I pretty sure if you watched the video he says exactly that
just remember you shoot stuff you don’t and probably could never actually hunt a animal without a gun. Go be a loser else where little boy
What a plonker. Call it what you like bros, this chap is just another hater👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽 nice vid
People value hunting wild deer for sport and to harvest venison. But, unless their numbers are managed, wild deer can damage native plants - in some places they threaten how ecosystems function. DEER IN NEW ZEALAND ARE NOT NATURAL AND DONT HAVE PREDATORS.
everyone needs to have an open mind. Here in the states we need tags so we don't overharvest. In new Zealand they have depredation tags to manage numbers. Its all legal and scientific based.
Seven species of deer have been established in the wild in New Zealand:
Red deer (Cervus elaphus scoticus)
Wapiti (C.elaphus nelsoni)
Sika deer (C. nippon)
Sambar (C. unicolor)
Russa deer (C. timorensis)
Fallow deer (Dama dama)
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
In New Zealand, deer have no natural predators. This means they can grow to large numbers without the support of hunters and others to aid in their management.
Deer populations have been building over the past couple of decades across the country. This is because they have been harvested at a lower level than their breeding rate. As numbers have increased, deer have moved into new areas to search for food.
Deer damage native forests by feeding on forest plants, trees, and seedlings. They start with the native plants they prefer most such as schefflera, broadleaf, and hen and chicken fern in forest understory's. Then they will move on to plants they like less. This can result in large groups of deer mainly eating falling leaves from canopy trees.
In subalpine areas, deer can damage tall tussocks and wildflowers like alpine buttercups.
By targeting these plants deer can change their composition of plants. This takes vital food and shelter from other animals. Over time this can hinder or stop forest regeneration.
Managing wild deer to reverse these effects will help protect native species and increase forests' health and resilience in dealing with climate change.
www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/animal-pests-and-threats/deer/
NZ is over-run with pest populations of deer, tahr, pigs, goats & possums and hunters who don't contribute to pest control. But complain bitterly when the government tries to save a few areas from being severely modified by overbrowsing and tracking etc. Plenty of "pest control" managers and operators demonstrate their prowess by perpetrating the ongoing nature of excessive pest numbers, and in some cases attempting to mollify teh noise from the 90% of "hunters" who are a waste of space for any positive pest control (but have every right to participate in sporting hunting when & where legal).
How difficult was it to obtain night shooting license?
Don’t need one in NZ for private land.
I had some problems using the Winchester super X through my 7mm08 as the bullets were seated completely different from each other when through 3 boxes all the same.
That’s a bugger, we haven’t had any troubles with them.
I use a piece of mozie coil stuck in the target which gives a nice small hot dot to aim at for sighting in
Good to know. Thansk
You can hunt deers at night???? 😮 I can hunt only 1h after sunset in Poland 🤔
Can’t tell if that’s Pete or Sam showing us the new scope at the start of the video lol
Shit am I looking that old!
Na - just beaming with wisdom like your old man, that’s all mate 😂
Like shooting fish in a barrel with that scope. 8k scope 😮
Pest control!
I spent my hard earned money on one of these over priced pieces of shit, used it for two years and found the following, great way to screw up an accurate rifle mostly cause the image is shit and you can't actually see your target, noticed you efforts on the heat target and the crap clarity on the first two you shot, try zooming in and it's like your in Lego Land, I'll take a good quality scope and accurate rifle and the trusty Olight. They talk and promote them as shoot shit out to 400, yeh right that's if you can see past 200. Anyhow that was my experience with an $8000 scope, the monoculars are great for farm work they just seem to have much better clarity I still use that especially during calving to monitor stock.
Both of you shot the further away deer on 4x magnification when you had 8 and 16x available. You should be more familiar with new gear before using it on animals. I have had an earlier version of this scope for 5 years now and they are brilliant.
Yea like I said in the video we haven’t used the scope much so could definitely use it a bit more effectively.
thank u shiftykiwi
👍
Not great when the scope loses focus every time you fire. I'd be sending it back.
Hunting ? Definitely not hunting 😂
First things first get the sight picture if focus; and THEN make sure you get 1 shot 1 kill
Otherwise you’re just making them suffer and yes I’ve shot before
mean bros big waggy
start at 25 mt then out 200
How many $$ in those 2 thermals tho? 20k worth?
The high end high quality ones are definitely not cheap. I think the scope is around $9,500 on the gun city website so not something most people can afford. But I suppose for the people that do have that kind of money it’s a pretty cool bit of kit. We are stoked to get to use it as sponsorship to see what it’s like.
@@clarkeboyshunting of course! Only time i got to use a xp50 monocular was on the demo model when i asked to trial it n pretended i was guna buy it😂
@@Nzbushwhacker😂
Abit more impaired. Bro its bit to easy?
Like a video game. Na bro
very blurry compared to other shooting videos
Yea we are just getting the hang of it. This was the first hunt I’d ever taken it on
Can’t call shooting animals with thermals as hunting in any way shape or form. Culling yes, but it’s not hunting
Yer be carefull not old fuĺa gettin about or a dog. Thats not wild.
I hope the clarity of that scope is better than the video footage. couldn't see anything.
Really? Shoulda gone to Specsavers.
TH-cam videos are compressed to save server space. Looks pretty good to me though.
Something is terribly wrong here, guys. Since when did deer become "pests" ? Venison is some of the finest table fare in existence, and should "never" be wasted. GET IT !
Yea you are right. We don’t really see deer as pests. They are more of a resource that needs to be managed.
@@clarkeboyshunting They are a pest, that have some uses (meat & sport). Leaving them to recycle isn't waste. The fact the overwhelming majority of hunters have no clue how many are out there and the damage they do, and those hunters are incapable of doing any meaningful pest control speaks volumes. Almost as much as those "hunters" do about management. Managing them by shooting about 1 in 5 is educating them, and knocking over the best stags is like shooting the stud ram for dog tucker. On private land that's the landowner's prerogative to manage them how they want, as long as they aren't fostering them in any neighbouring land with different objectives. Like public land.
Definately not hunting WTF
Haha you’re right dummy, it’s pest control not hunting. Big difference👍🏼
Just dont like a good stags around n been evadin humans. But yer?
Terrible shooting. Can’t hold the rifle still. Bloody cruel and unethical.
U a Pom ?
Unsubscribing now, shooting a stag with a head like that under thermal is as far from fair chase as you can get.
What the hell do u mean about fair chase, it’s a population control measure, nothing to do with hunting.
shut the door on your way out sook.
@@NZ-Culler will do tough guy.
Agreed not fair chase at all to call it hunting is a joke
Why did you post to unsubscribe 😂 just unsubscribe and move on.
Can’t believe you lads went from being ethical to stooping to thermal’s certainly not going to watch anymore of your utube clips disrespectful to that old stag and all ethical hunters
Ur a sook.
Wow! Can't wait for satellite lazer shooting technology!
We'll all be able to keep our faces planted firmly in our
phone-screens 24/7 then, and then we can prod buttons
from our living rooms and shoot any big stags we want
with our guided thermal lazers! The days of old cunning
bush stags kicking our arses will be over....
Wow, won't that be another great advancement for us all!
This is pest control ya knob.
need a tissue to wipe your tears?
@@NZ-Culler No, but if you yourself switch your panties to the non-twist
type you won't have to keep buying them in bulk-lots like you have been...
But you can carry on anyway if you like... Thank you. Next...
@@NZ-Culler And further, just to prove how magnanimous I am,
if you post your heart-felt apology to me within
twelve hours I will consider giving you leniency
on your comments regarding this extremely serious
earth-shattering life-changing subject that is currently
impacting everyones day across the planet and likely
causing consternation to those living even further out in
our galaxy and beyond...
Where do you draw the line with technology?