i have to say that i am very impressed and also thankyou to baldie for supplying the unit and for the two demo's.
we went out a couple of weeks ago and tried the xvd on a swat scope and it was pretty good, the range was a bit limited though on a very dark night and although suitable for airguns it would be a bit low for the rimmie.
i got geoffrey to order a laser illuminator instead of the standard one, the second demo with my new unit was stunning, you could turn mag up to 16x and get 70yrd bunnies taking up most of the picture. i would like a swat but this will turn into an very expensive piece of equipment although i think you would be able to take out foxes at a great distance as long as you knew the back drops well.
the two scopes that are on my rimmie and fac s410 are a simmons pro air 4-12x40 and and bushnell banner 4-12x40, both reasonably cheap scopes with good quality optics, i was not too sure whether the 40mm objectives would pass enough light to the xvd and i am sure that with the standard illuminator you would be looking at sub 40yds ranges.
geoffrey left good intructions about setting up and had also showed me on the demo's, i tried both guns with the unit last night although the s410 is not zeroed so i could only shoot the rimmie. i tok them onto the golf course so the land was open and the grass was short, both performed imho better with the laser than a swat with the standard illuminator. you could see rabbits at a silly distance and i stalked up to a fox that was cleaning itself and legged it when it smelt me at 40yds. although the moon it fullish it was very cloudy here and so was quite a dark night, i got to what i thought was about my 55 yrd zero from a bunny, got down on the bipod and shot it, i needed a second shot as we were a bit closer and i should have held under. later i shot an 80yrd (probably the one that both me and zooankski missed last monday ) and it dropped cleanly, i shoot at 6x mag but found you could have it up to 10ish quite happily although the depth of field was then narrowed. this was one place the 40mm scopes won hands down over the swat, on medium zooms you had to scan in layers with the swat as when paralaxed at 45 you could not see **** at 70ish. with the small scopes you could scan from 20-100yds and then make adjustments before taking the shot.
i have mounted both scopes quite far forward but its not uncomfortable with or without the xvd on, the s410 has a very high cheek piece and was no good with another scope i tried on it but seems fine with the £89 bushnell which seems to have a long eye relief, the simmons was a touch brighter and so will stay on the rimmie but the bushnell will piss fac air ranges.
does anyone have any tips for the xvd, mine are to mark the parralax ring (i am trying a thin strip of velcro at the 50yrd mark)
i have also punched a hole through a small square of velcro and stuck it to the xvd lens cap, it can then be securred to the units side to stop it flapping.
you can also make 5.52 velcro pellets by.....


all the best and sorry for poor punctuation and spelling


ben