shotgun sam Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 Lidl are doing a set of digital callipers for £8.99 as from Thursday 24th March. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolk shooter Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 Lidl are doing a set of digital callipers for £8.99 as from Thursday 24th March. I think depending on what part of the country you're in these may already be on sale in certain stores as I saw them in the Ipswich one last weekend They also had laser range finders (for golf) and a night vison monocular(£75 and I believe this might be the one Ferretboy111 and Pin each converted to sit on a scope a couple of years ago) again in the Ipswich one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeksofdoom Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 I have the night vision monocle and find it to be a heap of ****! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bewsher500 Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 i got the £99 Lidl NV monocular and initially it was pants but after some fiddling with BOTH ends to focus and playing around with it I cant complain. spots rabbit eyes out to 200yds, saves me scaring everything away sweeping with a lamp. its not Gen3 but then I dont have a £3k hole in my pocket! for £9 I might just give the digi calipers a shot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooter Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 (edited) I bought a pair of these about a year ago. Well worth the money. Just take battery out when you're not using them, as the power off button only turns off the display and the circuits still drain the power. Edited March 18, 2011 by cooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catweazle Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 i got the £99 Lidl NV monocular and initially it was pants but after some fiddling with BOTH ends to focus and playing around with it I cant complain. spots rabbit eyes out to 200yds, saves me scaring everything away sweeping with a lamp. its not Gen3 but then I dont have a £3k hole in my pocket! for £9 I might just give the digi calipers a shot! So it was pants, then you adjusted the focus and now you can spot rabbits at 200yds ? That's pretty damned impressive for a £99 job, what magnification is it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bewsher500 Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 So it was pants, then you adjusted the focus and now you can spot rabbits at 200yds ? That's pretty damned impressive for a £99 job, what magnification is it ? well it took me a while to figure out that both objective and ocular eyepeices rotate and affect focus. I thought one was loose and wound it up tight, meant that whatever I did with the other end it was very blurry! bit of trial and error but I got there. I am not saying you can see detail at 200yds but you can tell its a rabbit rather than a fox and once spotted I can walk up closer and point the lamp in a specific direction rather than sweeping all over the place. I tend to be alone so its a rifle mounted light, not great if you have to wave it around looking for a target! only thing I can complain about is that it glares like a ****** if you have anything in the foreground, fence, bush, above waist high long grass etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bewsher500 Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 (edited) just got some, look just the job...but the discrepency between the measurement of a .224 bullet my dial calipers read in mm so I did them both in mm My £20 Machine mart dial calipers - .224 reading at 5.69 (actual conversion is 5.6895999999999995mm) £8 Lidl dial calipers reading 5.73 (0.22559055118134602") and this was the lowest I could get it, without givinga good squeeze it was reading between 5.74 and 5.75mm! tested on a few other things and it is between .03 and .07mm off all the time..... useful for converting mm to inches quickly though!! Edited March 24, 2011 by Bewsher500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy Holt Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 well it took me a while to figure out that both objective and ocular eyepeices rotate and affect focus. I thought one was loose and wound it up tight, meant that whatever I did with the other end it was very blurry! bit of trial and error but I got there. I am not saying you can see detail at 200yds but you can tell its a rabbit rather than a fox and once spotted I can walk up closer and point the lamp in a specific direction rather than sweeping all over the place. I tend to be alone so its a rifle mounted light, not great if you have to wave it around looking for a target! only thing I can complain about is that it glares like a basat@rd if you have anything in the foreground, fence, bush, above waist high long grass etc etc I must have a broken one then, yes you can see out to well over 200yrds but you struggle to pick out a cow at that range never mind a fox or even a rabbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 just got some, look just the job...but the discrepency between the measurement of a .224 bullet my dial calipers read in mm so I did them both in mm My £20 Machine mart dial calipers - .224 reading at 5.69 (actual conversion is 5.6895999999999995mm) £8 Lidl dial calipers reading 5.73 (0.22559055118134602") and this was the lowest I could get it, without givinga good squeeze it was reading between 5.74 and 5.75mm! tested on a few other things and it is between .03 and .07mm off all the time..... useful for converting mm to inches quickly though!! Have you tried zeroing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 The calipers are good value, as I bought a set from Lidl's about 2 years ago. The NV monucular is okay, but you need to increase the IR 'light' by means of a lamp with IR filter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bewsher500 Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Have you tried zeroing it every time. no difference, might take it back and try another one in the shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 every time. no difference, might take it back and try another one in the shop How do you know it's the digital one, bullet sizes probably aren't that perfect and I have had a world of trouble with inaccurate dial types. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaedra1106 Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 (edited) Tried mine out on a set of precision PCB drills, both sets I have, one from Lidl and one costing almost £200 gave the same reading on a 1.30mm drill, 1.31mm so accurate to .01mm or approx .0004 Inch or spot on if the drill is slightly off I believe the spec for these is +- .02mm at up to 100mm so easily within spec at .01mm Edit, Corrected as pointed out by Ian - Edited March 26, 2011 by phaedra1106 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catweazle Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 I must have a broken one then, yes you can see out to well over 200yrds but you struggle to pick out a cow at that range never mind a fox or even a rabbit. I can't resolve a rabbit body at more than about 70yds with my Merlin, although eye shine is a lot further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bewsher500 Posted March 26, 2011 Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 How do you know it's the digital one, bullet sizes probably aren't that perfect and I have had a world of trouble with inaccurate dial types. because if .224" ran out to .226 people would be blowing up barrels! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vermincinerator Posted March 26, 2011 Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 My mate reckoned he spotted a rabbit at 35 yds with his Aldi NV when i put the light on it and picked it up in the scope it was a little owl :o Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vermincinerator Posted March 26, 2011 Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 Tried mine out on a set of precision PCB drills, both sets I have, one from Lidl and one costing almost £200 gave the same reading on a 1.30mm drill, 1.31mm so accurate to .01mm or approx .004 Inch or spot on if the drill is slightly off I believe the spec for these is +- .02mm at up to 100mm so easily within spec at .01mm Another one who got it wrong, .01mm is actually .0004" Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted March 26, 2011 Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 because if .224" ran out to .226 people would be blowing up barrels! Well as I've already said elsewhere, if absolute accuracy is so important to you buy some calibrated micrometers and not a digital or dial gauge that is inherently inaccurate, in any brand. The rest of us can think ourselves lucky that we can buy these bargains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redgum Posted March 28, 2011 Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 Pretty sure the ogive on the bullet heads will be marginally differant anyway unless you spend lots of money on expensive bullets. For my 700 remmie and hunting ammo these tolerances are just fine,if I was a shooting paper at a higher level then maybe I would invest in mega bucks stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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