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Hey dude it's the detergent in the lense stuff that prevents fogging. Weakens the surface tension of the water apparently so it can't form a film on the glass.

Just checked and those little wipes are discontinued. Bummer.

i got mine out of the $2 bargain box on the gun shop counter.. lol. .. and the link here to the material safety sheet tells you what's in it. http://sport.birchwoodcasey.com/Accessories/AccessoryDetails.aspx?ProductID=17b4a033-2531-4189-9a2c-26e00e62ffa5 6% Isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol.. no wonder it remined me of footy training) 4% Propylene Glycol n Butyl Ether (think that might be lighter fluid) 2% Surfactant (detergent) and 88% Water. That's about the same as the home made mixture recommended by Carl Ziess, minus the water. At 12 bucks a tiny bottle, I'm in the wrong business

mate, the Birchwood stuff removed every trace of Inox over spray from my scope glass while all the other stuff I tried just spread it around and left oil slicks. It cleans glass awesomely

Lense pen don't stop fogging. He's already got one of those.

Most lense cleaners are just alcohol mixed with purified water. They won't stop fogging so make sure it's a good brand that says anti-fog on the bottle. The anti-static is good too as it stops dust sticking to the lense and any rain drops will bead right off the glass.Use very light pressure when you rubbing it in and a clean dry tissue (very lght pressure) to wipe it off. When you wipe it off it should feel real slippery under the dry tissue. That's the anti-fog coating. Put a few applications on before you head out and it should be sweet no matter how bad the conditions.

Hey mate, you need an anti-fogging/anti-static spray to clean the lenses before you head out. One I use is Birchwood casey Lense Cleaner. Guns shops sell it.I use it on my scopes and camera lenses for freefall and it stops them fogging and any moisture just beads off. Make sure you buy some proper lense tissue as normal tissue paper will slowly abrade away the lense coatings and cause micro-scratches. Those micro fibre lense cloths come in handy too..

Where did you hear that?

From the animation it appears the P7 put it too shame. I wouldn't have expected that to be the case.

I got one of these. http://s-smedical.com/39101.html Easy to carry good for a quick sharpen when you away from home. At home I wrap a piece of 600 grit emery paper around a bit of 4 x 2 and use it as a sharpening block. A few drops of gun oil on the paper and the edge comes up pretty good.

Picked up a ST-3456 from Jaycar today and just tested it in the park.. awesome throw. Thanks for the tip off vicfox.

Only the city cops that use UHF and encrypted comms.. country police use VHF and it's not scrambled.

So is it just a division by 2 of the existing band space?

haha.. if only I had money to burn... Doubt you'd see change from 500 bucks... if they came down to a reasonable price like LEDs did it might be worth the risk just to see if they are any good.. .Had a look at the ND3 package. It comes with 2x mounts that have windage and elevation adjustment and a remote switch for use on the rifle.. but for the price they ask you'd expect a few extras. The metal box looks pretty trick though.

Yeah there's cheap LED torches around these days but I'm not sure many were around when I first bought the T5 in 2006, which despite the abuse is still powering on.. but then I've only been on a hunting forum for a short time and seen a lot of stuff bagged out by people that don't actually own the stuff, used the stuff or seen the stuff in action, so I'll wait to see the new gen of laser torches in action for myself before deciding if they are rubbish or not.

I use two torches anyway.. a hocus focus set to wide to see where I'm going and pick up eye shine and a p7 mounted on the scope. How do you know something like the ND3 is impractical? Have you used a laser torch one for hunting and found it to be so?

Where's the part about over 1mW being impossible? That document you posted a link to only states you need B709B and B710 approval forms and permission permission from the weapons licensing in the relevant state to import lasers stronger than 1mW.

Do you remember some people talking down LEDs torches for hunting before they took off..? It's actually a green laser.. you can start fires with some of those puppies. The advertising might be over hyped but they are definitely more than an ordiary torch with a green filter. It's the advancement in collator technology over the last few years that makes them useful as a torch. ie adjustable beam width.

Seen them a while back.. there's some vidoes of them in use on youtube. The are a green laser with variable collator so the beam width is adjustable.. I'd expect battery life would be pretty good. Just waiting for the price to come down and I rekon it shouldn't be too difficult to get an import permit if you have a gun license.

One of the Fox pro electronic callers is probably what you want. http://www.gofoxpro.com/ They aren't cheap though. Like vicfox said, a decoy helps too. I sometimes use this.. it's a rolled up rabbit skin that moves in the wind.. no wind and it's a rabbit just sitting still.. lol

No caller will work if the fox busts you. Have a look in the Fox Hunting forum if you want to learn how people are doing it. I also noticed you rejected Pete's tried and true method of using chicken necks to lure them in.. a great idea that I'll be trying myself very soon. Then there is fangsters detailed post describing how he lures in the ferals and a lot of that could be adapted to foxes.. Let us know how the IPhone works out.. my nephew suggested that one a while back but I said if he pulls out an IPhone in the field I'd shoot it

You can bury small amounts of dog food as a lolly for the fox near the chicken coup and bury the empty can as well. Do it a few times, not too shallow as you want him to work for it. A hole dug with a post hole digger about 12-18".. once he forms the habit of returning, which is probably going to be at night, you can wait it out with a torch and shotgun. The empty can is like an alarm bell.. the sound of him knocking it about to get at the dregs is the cue to hit the lights and let the fox have it with the shotgun Whatever you do don't miss the shot, otherwise he won't be so gullible next time. It also pays to understand a foxes senses and how he uses them to hunt. As for feral cats.. I shoot just as many as foxes.. probably more, mostly during the daylight and a fox whistle generally sends them running for cover. Soft squeaks sometimes work, but mostly I just look for cat sign then stalk the area. I'm told by some that Bob cat on heat e-calls work well but i don't have one of those.

I find most shots I take at night with the 22LR and torch are off hand, so it pays to brush up on that. Other thing I found is the subsonic ammo drops a cat or fox just as effectively as the normal velocity stuff so there is no need to chop and change ammo on the night. If you are stuck with a P7 until the torch you order comes in, use NiMh batteries and it will burn brighter for a lot longer. Other thing is tape up the focus ring because the push/pull focus can be a pain in the arse when you knock it accidently. Have fun

I had an old Cybernet from the early 80s that has 40 channels on the dial but by grounding cetain pins on the PLL chip you get more than 500 channels, although it would only TX about 240 of them.. Funny thing is by the time your uniden came about the manufacturers had moved to read only chips so it wasn't so easy to get the extra channels, but soon enough somebody came up with a daughter board that connected to the PLL circuit with jumper leads and hey presto, extra channels. Thing with UHF is it's useless for anything but close range communication. Get stuck anywhere remote and nobody will hear you. At least the old AM/SSB HF CB's signal could bend over mountains and the horizon and if the conditions were good 'skip' thousands of miles so you could be heard by somebody, some where, if you were really in the trouble.

The icoms firmware is programmable via a "special" adapter cable that normal people are not supposed to have in their possesion. You can also increase the TX power and get them to transmit way out of band, but that would be illegal. The dealer will easily be able to unlock the extra channels. That model should already be able to recieve the new channels plus a lot more. You can program that from the control panel. Look in the manual.