Night vision question !

marty555

Has anyone used any of the night vision out their for uses on your rifle! If so how did it work and what your recommendation on it ??

sniperman

marty555 wrote: »

Has anyone used any of the night vision out their for uses on your rifle! If so how did it work and what your recommendation on it ??

think one needs permission from the local super to use night vision,if you go on youtube,you will see all you need to know,seems in the uk its the norm to use night vision,i personally dont see a problem with nv,if used responsibly.

1jay1

Nite site eagle is a great piece of kit. I've seen it in action myself.

hrcbob

Ive used a night vision spotting scope before that i had gotten a loan of,, Cant remember the make or model,

What i did find after a while using it was that it was quite bright looking into the eye piece and when i put it down to move on,my eyes needed to re-focus to the low light level before i could actually move,

i eventually gave up on it because it was too much of a pain.

Prob would have been a good job if you were just sitting and waiting thou.

arrowloopboy

hrcbob wrote: »

Ive used a night vision spotting scope before that i had gotten a loan of,, Cant remember the make or model,

What i did find after a while using it was that it was quite bright looking into the eye piece and when i put it down to move on,my eyes needed to re-focus to the low light level before i could actually move,

i eventually gave up on it because it was too much of a pain.

Prob would have been a good job if you were just sitting and waiting thou.

You need to keep one eye closed when looking through it ,and then when you stop looking through it ,you need to close the eye you used ,and open the other one that hasn't been exposed to brightness.

marty555

I've seen all the YouTube clips myself. But their is nothing like first hand experience, their a lot of money and as with most things, once you open it and use it if it's not suitable then your proper out of pocket. I'm look for one that will work with good quality of picture and on rabbits and fox's out to 250m

clivej

The Archer is very good but at £2000 it's OTT for a bit of fox shooting.

Try building your own. Easy enough to do and the results are quite good.
See a fox at 175y very well and take the shot. Total cost is about €200

I have a Dedal gen 2 NV scope that I use for spotting. I can see cows in a field 1k away. That is if I know the field was empty and it's not later on then it's cows or deer I'm looking at. On a clear full moon night it's like looking at a field flooded with green light, you can see under the trees in the shadows from the full moons light.

My DIY at 100y using my phone for the video.
A Fallow pricket and NO it was not shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buok6pSDO7U

Grizzly 45

What you pays is whats you gets.Had a chance to goof about with a Cobra NV scope/camera/head set goggle type thingy a few years ago,and TBH Gen 2 Russian stuff its medicore at best and about finished at 40 meters.Where as an old 1960s Gen 1 Bundeswehr active IR binoculars with a active IR fox light is still reaching out to 150 /200 meters.Even Vietnam era starlight scopes which are now occasionaly on the market as collectors items will out perform some of the current commercial Russian stuff.Western stuff will always trump the Eastern mass produced equipment,but be prepared to pay well over the odds for it.IE the Archer,or Longbow scopes are in the 2k/3k Stg or the NV monocoles@3k plus ,but the quality is impressive .Guess it boils down to how bady do you need to own the night.

yubabill1

A friend had a 1k worth of Yukon IR NV about 10 years ago on a 223.

Couldn't hit a rabbit at 75yds.

Ret didn't seem to hold zero.