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Previously on "Anyone any experience with night vision optics?"

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  • d000hg
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    Yanks are buying them ready for the Trumpist uprising.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Hurry up to buy it because the demand (and prices) for NV will go through the roof any time...
    Why is that? The increasing crime rate or the current Russia "situation"

    Or are you hinting that we soon won't have any eleccy?!

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  • AtW
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    Hurry up to buy it because the demand (and prices) for NV will go through the roof any time...

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  • DaveB
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    Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post

    If one can spy on one's neighbours, then one is either using a radio telescope or one's acreage is inadequate.
    Originally posted by ravenshaw View Post

    Or one owns a night vision drone.
    Or one has the covert resources of a small country at their disposal.

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  • David71
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    I've got no experience with night vision but I get my regular scopes from this company and they've always been happy to spend some time on the phone discussing requirements / budgets etc.

    OPW | Nightvision & Thermal | www.OpticsWarehouse.co.uk

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
    What rifle are you going to attach it to?

    https://www.cheshiregunroom.com/puls...ion-riflescope
    According to this it'll cope with "heavy recoil".

    http://shop.drewslab.co.uk/night-vis...105206867.html

    What's the eye relief on these things?

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  • d000hg
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    Watching one of those "Pro Vs cheapest Amazon" videos on NV the cheap self-illuminating kits with a little IR lamp was actually pretty good, I know I was impressed. Whether you need monocular or binocular is a question too?

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    There are two basic types of infra red (IR) night vision systems: Active, where the kit illuminates the scene, as if shining an IR torch, and Passive where it relies solely on IR radiation transmitted from the scene being viewed.

    Passive is better for many purposes, especially where stealth is required, because if someone else has IR night vision then obviously they can see and locate the source of a nearby active IR kit as if it was flashing a torch light in the dark. But high-resolution passive systems tend to be much more expensive (or were - not sure if that is still true).

    Last year I planned to buy a simple (low-resolution) passive IR chip device for my Raspberry Pi. But the chips were in acutely short supply, presumably because the stock was all being bagged for Covid-detecting hand-held IR thermometers. But the supply problems may now have eased (not sure).
    Active IR, not thermal.
    It's to supplement the trail camera and Arlos. So that I can follow the various creatures when they trigger a camera.
    We know that there are foxes, badgers, polecats, feral cats, rabbits and muntjac, would be interesting to see what else and to follow them.

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  • cojak
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    The WifeTM doesn’t have the same budget as I might.
    Then I would ask her for socks and buy it yourself.

    (I hope Mr C doesn’t read this… If you are Dear, it’s a joke!)

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  • NotAllThere
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    Ah - hunting night cyclists. I see.

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  • Zigenare
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    What rifle are you going to attach it to?

    https://www.cheshiregunroom.com/puls...ion-riflescope

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  • OwlHoot
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    There are two basic types of infra red (IR) night vision systems: Active, where the kit illuminates the scene, as if shining an IR torch, and Passive where it relies solely on IR radiation transmitted from the scene being viewed.

    Passive is better for many purposes, especially where stealth is required, because if someone else has IR night vision then obviously they can see and locate the source of a nearby active IR kit as if it was flashing a torch light in the dark. But high-resolution passive systems tend to be much more expensive (or were - not sure if that is still true).

    Last year I planned to buy a simple (low-resolution) passive IR chip device for my Raspberry Pi. But the chips were in acutely short supply, presumably because the stock was all being bagged for Covid-detecting hand-held IR thermometers. But the supply problems may now have eased (not sure).

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  • ravenshaw
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    Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post

    If one can spy on one's neighbours, then one is either using a radio telescope or one's acreage is inadequate.
    Or one owns a night vision drone.

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  • jamesbrown
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

    He can't watch the neighbours shagging on a hot day or in the pool with one of them. erm.. apparently.
    If one can spy on one's neighbours, then one is either using a radio telescope or one's acreage is inadequate.

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  • WTFH
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    Given my association with a certain company, I remember looking at the ME-20 and ML-105, but this is more for watching wildlife down the garden.
    Needs a range of about 200metres, self illuminating.
    The WifeTM doesn’t have the same budget as I might.

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