Night Vision Vis Laser Power

rlsmith1 · Monday at 12:37 PM

For those of you who chase pigs at night and run white light / vis laser from time to time, how important is a FP visible laser to you? Or has a civ power visible laser worked fine? I'm thinking out the passenger side or bed of a SXS shooting on the move type stuff...

Been a long time since I sold my MAWL and at the moment I'm running an OTAL C (ir version) so not much to go off of from experience unfortunately but appreciate any insight

TheHebrewHammer · Monday at 1:11 PM

A Glare Mout does the job for me on my Saiga. That being said a nice 50mw green laser is basically a lightsaber at night. You can track the beam from start to end which helps with situation awareness of exactly where your firearm is pointing.

rlsmith1 · Monday at 1:18 PM

TheHebrewHammer said:
A Glare Mout does the job for me on my Saiga. That being said a nice 50mw green laser is basically a lightsaber at night. You can track the beam from start to end which helps with situation awareness of exactly where your firearm is pointing.

"My firearm" take to mean "some knucklehead I gave permission to use my firearm" hahaha

TheHebrewHammer · Monday at 1:46 PM

Bingo, worth every penny and super easy to correct possibly dangerous behavior early.

JWG · Tuesday at 12:11 PM

I'm using a 75mW red viz, and it works very well, although the trace in clean air is rather dull vs green. I use it for coyotes.

Magsz18 · 2025-05-15T15:30:23-0400

A 5MW green laser is fine.

A 5MW red laser sucks unless its pitch black and there's haze in the air. This helps spot the "end" of the laser beam due to the trace from particulates in the air.

At least, this is my experience.

rlsmith1 · 2025-05-15T16:24:31-0400

Magsz18 said:
A 5MW green laser is fine.

A 5MW red laser sucks unless its pitch black and there's haze in the air. This helps spot the "end" of the laser beam due to the trace from particulates in the air.

At least, this is my experience.

Off the top of your head do any civilian lasers have 5mw green? I haven't really paid attention to that spec in the past

Magsz18 · 2025-05-15T17:00:55-0400

brazz04 said:
You guys can all hunt how you'd like. The OP is bare minimum needs. Mine is a simple QD thermal. The OP talks about spending 3500 total. To me that is an easy 640 QD mount thermal. You don't have to be silly accurate at 75-100 yards, hell 3 MOA kills a coyote at that distance and my moronic fumbling to a dedicated rail happens in around two seconds (and is well under 3 MOA). It's pretty easy, mount a barrier on your rail as a reference and you do it without ever looking. Many coyotes have been shot this way and hogs are much slower and easier so that's just fine with me. Anything past these yardages gives you plenty of time so it makes the time argument that much easier to deal with as well.

It works, and it is the bare minimum necessary. You do you, I don't need more and have had a ton of success.

rlsmith1 said:
Off the top of your head do any civilian lasers have 5mw green? I haven't really paid attention to that spec in the past

Yes sir.

Most civilian visible lasers are 5MW.

Plenty bright for what we'd be doing with them. At least, the green variants are.

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