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Right gents, been thinking of doing some long (ish) range shooting just for the hell of it. Problem is it will be a right pain to keep walking back and forth to the target to see if I actually hit it, or more likely how far I missed it by I can get a clear shot up to about 350 mtrs on a shoot with very good back stop, and that's long for most of my permissions, possibly 400mtrs.
Thinking set up a camera viewing target area and then wireless back to screen, unless there's some better way? I've got plenty of cameras good enough and a few screens, haven't got any means of getting camera image back to the screen though, something I've never messed with. What do I need, what's the range and where from.

I was toying with a similar idea some time back and thought about going down the digiscoping route, mainly because I have a good spotting scope and have used it in the past with a conventional camera on the back of it
Did manage to get a good shot of York Minster sticking up out of the mist from 21 miles away using something like 80 x mag, thats 20 on the scope and 4 on the camera
One big advantage of doing it this way is everything is at hand and can be powered from your truck if you can get it to your shooting position.
Fixing a digi camera to the back of a spotting scope is just another form of add-on, but good scopes are expensive and don't know how the cheaper ones perform but at the distances you're talking they might well do the job.
Never got round to actually doing it so not speaking from experience, just theory.

I've got a spotting scope to be honest, but it's c**p It's an Aldi / Lidl one and for some odd reason even at 60mag the view through my scope at 24 mag is larger . Spotting scope is also not very sharp, can't see bullet holes in white card at 200 mtrs

I don't mind walking to target once with camera, battery and target. Just don't want to be going back and forth. When I zeroed the .204 I must have walked ten miles, I was glad to get home

What about something like this rod , possibly linking it up to an ipad ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wireless-WiFi ... BXve1ddqiA

Nice little unit that From what I understand (not very much) it should link to my phone ? It says something about Android and I think mine is that (Sony Z2 ?)
Or have I got it wrong again , I don't do tech

Just thinking, I have got a tablet as well, it may link to that Just have to charge it up as it hasn't been used for 12 months

rodp wrote:I've got a spotting scope to be honest, but it's c**p It's an Aldi / Lidl one and for some odd reason even at 60mag the view through my scope at 24 mag is larger . Spotting scope is also not very sharp, can't see bullet holes in white card at 200 mtrs

That must be the junior twitcher model then, you can tell the difference between a seagull and crow.

chas wrote:

rodp wrote:I've got a spotting scope to be honest, but it's c**p It's an Aldi / Lidl one and for some odd reason even at 60mag the view through my scope at 24 mag is larger . Spotting scope is also not very sharp, can't see bullet holes in white card at 200 mtrs

That must be the junior twitcher model then, you can tell the difference between a seagull and crow.

Nah,not at any distance, mine's only the black and white version

rodp wrote:Nice little unit that From what I understand (not very much) it should link to my phone ? It says something about Android and I think mine is that (Sony Z2 ?)
Or have I got it wrong again , I don't do tech

I am probably telling you wrong here mate but i think most everything thats not apple is android , that camera looks like it runs off 5 volts so it should be easy enough to use one of them small powerpack thingies.

jdk1 wrote:

rodp wrote:Nice little unit that From what I understand (not very much) it should link to my phone ? It says something about Android and I think mine is that (Sony Z2 ?)
Or have I got it wrong again , I don't do tech

I am probably telling you wrong here mate but i think most everything thats not apple is android , that camera looks like it runs off 5 volts so it should be easy enough to use one of them small powerpack thingies.

Do you think we should wait for someone who's more up on this to pipe up, or shall I just buy it and see

You know who we really need, BRUUUUUUUUUUCE !! Where are you ?