Mrs 1894 was out last night, so instead of consuming vast amounts of beer and curry infront of the video I went and sat up over a clearing under the full moon with a flask and my 9.3x62 waiting for a fox.

At last my question is answered. Even with an appreciable amount of cloud a quality pair of 7x42 binos and 1.5-6x42 scope with a heavy cross hair is able to cope on light grass.

Mr fox did not appear but a deer did and was shootable with care. It being well past legal light it lived.

9,3 seems a bit of an overkill...

1894,

I suspect you have been reading you're Jim Corbett again!

But you are right, that is when quality, well maintained optics really come into there own. At what range did you feel the deer were shootable at and what were they? Fallow?

Regards,

Pete

That sounds like one of my nights when the Mrs is away. The curry, beer (or wine),video plus a nice cigar or two, that is. And it was last night too .



If it was legal would you have taken it at night?

I chuckled at the Jim Corbet reference!
Wonder if one of these "mythical mendip" big cats had crossed that moonlit clearing....
Be honest 1894.. no shell-shocked rabbit or hare?

Trans-pond,

Reference the mythical mendip cats, you obviously picked up my train of thoughts!

Regards,

Pete