Das Jagdmagazin mit Weitblick

Ticks are moving higher into Austria’s mountains — and hunters are following them. Once considered a lowland problem, the castor bean tick is now being found above 1,500 meters. Milder temperatures and wildlife hosts are pushing its range uphill, bringing Lyme disease and TBE into places where mountain hunters once felt safe.

How well does the ThermTec Ventus 650L perform on a high-country chamois hunt? Schuss & Stille put the multispectral thermal binocular through a real-world field test in the Austrian Alps—broad daylight, long distances, steep rock faces, and dense alpine scrub. Thermal imaging, 4K day/night vision, and an integrated laser rangefinder all faced the ultimate mountain-hunting test.