Easy way to see pellet holes in a paper targets at a distance

Great use of available, often forgotten tech, laying about a house!

@ThomasT Yes, trying to see holes at 20 yards shooting iron sights sucks!!

I have contemplated taking one of the surplus / old wifi enabled dashcams i have, and make it into a remote target camera.
but there are a few unknown.

1: will the build in WIFI antenna reach that far ( 100 M )
2: Dashcams do not have a battery so in most cases i would need to add a Power bank to the mix, but that is also quite possible

We have tried the spotting scope + Deben mount + Phone, and it also work just fine for 30 M targets, but any further and my friend will have to find the bigger magnification lens for that which he have lost.
Also in the wooden shot shed, while you dont really feel it as a shooter, then a long zoom lens, it do very much pic up vibrations in the wooden shed.

You could go alternative and mount a bigger tablet, and then place the tripod and optics outside the shed, it is after all just 4-5 feet in front of you then.

PS: we both have cheap telescopes, my mirror telescope are actually quite small, my friends are a bit larger not least with its tracking mount.
But using those you do get REAL CLOSE to a tree 1000 M away, but unsure if they can focus on anything closer.


ATM i am more along the lines of getting a small screen as my new Oneleaf NV500 scope have a micro HDMI output, not for tracking pellet holes but it would make it more easy to keep a eye out for the rats VS having to lean in over the rifle now and them ( remember in the shot shed we have nice comfortable chairs, and we both like to lean back and run our mouths )

But baby monitor or say a dirt cheap wifi CCTV camera, those are nice plug & play options to get on with it.

I been thinking this

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kodak-PIXPRO-AZ528-16-4-Megapixel-Bridge-Camera-Blue/835791235


Wifi to phone , zoom in 100y easy , video of shooting the groups or snapshot , not added bulk on gun , and use it elsewhere like on a trip or business.. ( scope cam be kinda odd doing that )

Excellent idea @ThomasT

I was really into this back in the late eighties and early nineties. Back then, I had a camera with a fifty foot cable and a small B&W TV, with a Betamax recorder. I would shoot from the bench set up in my Wells Cargo trailer.
For indoors (10 meters), I built a pellet trap with lights. Spots aimed at the targets, and with the flip of a switch at the shooting bench, lights inside the trap that would light the holes.
The local airgun shop at the time was trying to talk me into doing home, indoor range installations in people unused attic spaces, complete with A/C and lighting, but I wasn't a business man.

Now I sit with my wife and shoot, and she can't see what's going on down range, so I am considering an easy way to set up an on screen view
My current setup is 30 & 75 yards from my covered porch.
Any ideas I will research. This is starting to become a priority.

I did look at the security cam stuff but like mostly power and range or stand a lone WiFi kept coming up . If they get at)in home use no prob , but bench / field . Not so good ..

Another I seen to try is a app that connects 2 cell phones as master and slave. Using a old phone/ device at the rack controlled at the bench by your primary phone ( record,pictures ,ect)

I was thinking of making use of an older phone as well, but the baby camera is a great idea. Nice groups too!

Also have a FPV kit, that after doing it on a RC car for a while ( man you get lost quickly viewing from ankle height even if your RC truck have a top speed of slow jogging pace )
So i retrofitted that to my DIY night vision goggles, that of course need a IR light source to work a damn.
I could easy take that apart and see stuff,,,,, and as its a high power 900 MHZ transmitter,,,,,, well if i was a super longe range shooter,,,,,, no problem.

Having multiple cameras going at different distances, i would think wifi CCTV cameras and a laptop maybe output to a larger TV would be ideal, this way you can use split screen and so have all ranges good to go.
wifi at least with a proper antenna, should not be a range problem over open fields, if need be a directional antenna can maybe be deployed.

Nice, not aware there was dual channel baby monitors,,,,, that's nice

look at Longshot target cameras. More money but made to do what you want and they have ones that will do up to two miles line of sight.

Being too lazy to walk down to those 100 yard targets... I fly my drone down to take a close look.

...Now I'm thinking on how to have the drone hang up a fresh target and retrieve the old one.

Cheers!

Vana2 said:

Being too lazy to walk down to those 100 yard targets... I fly my drone down to take a close look.

...Now I'm thinking on how to have the drone hang up a fresh target and retrieve the old one.

Cheers!

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Heck just go full VR

Brilliant idea.

Isn't this already a common approach to some degree? Most all you tubers basically do this. Worthy discussion nonetheless with the baby monitor.


-Matt

That’s pretty cool. I just pick up my binoculars and look.

BABz58 said:

That’s pretty cool. I just pick up my binoculars and look.

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I just turn up my scope mag to where needed, idk how some of you guys shoot with red dots and sub 10x magnification, I personally don't enjoy not seeing the exact POA in detail as I shoot.

-Matt