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    Night Vision Questions on the Wicox Raptor Class 1 RAPid TARgeting Module ES

    In practice, the RAPTAR / ES will range a coyote sized animal with 90% probability of attaining a reading (versus no reading) at 750 meters. This is consistent with the 0.5m H x 2.0m W beam divergence at 1500 meters on the laser it uses for range detection. This is for an unobstructed view...
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    Night Vision Need Help Zeroing a Kite Common Weapon Sight (CWS)

    LOL, Delta4-3. 3-lb sledge *AND* 100-mile-an-hour tape ... :-) IR-V
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    Night Vision Need Help Zeroing a Kite Common Weapon Sight (CWS)

    You're welcome, longbow. My pleasure to help. IR-V
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    Night Vision Need Help Zeroing a Kite Common Weapon Sight (CWS)

    Get a picatinny riser that uses clamp with thumbscrew(s) on the LEFT side of the riser. Then, use thin sections of any sheet metal with good compression strength (such as aluminum, brass, or mild steel alloy) to form V-angle shims that you will insert on the RIGHT side of the clamp. This will...
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    Night Vision LaserMax IR laser....switching AWAY from pulse mode???

    Keith, You're welcome. Glad you were able to gain the adjustments you needed via the on-board, electronic switching. The Lasermax UNI will have either the manual electronic or manual hard switching for beam pulse, but not both. Enclosed below is a photo of a Lasermax UNI-IR 5mW (Class...
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    Night Vision LaserMax IR laser....switching AWAY from pulse mode???

    Don't panic - the adjustment screw will "stick" a bit when you first try to adjust it out of pulse mode. The trick is to loosen and tighten the adjustment screw a few times, and then the mechanism will "unstick" and readily switch between steady mode (when tightened) and pulse mode (when...
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    Night Vision My NV range finder project took a turn

    That's one of the significant strengths of the PLRF-10 ... that it is designed to specifically enable use with i^2 night vision. The "NtOn" mode dims the reticle illumination to where it is completely invisible to the naked eye, but will give a sharp, clear image of the reticle and distance...
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    Night Vision My NV range finder project took a turn

    Phil, No doubt that's one heck of an outstanding set-up you have there for only $315 in parts to interconnect your NV and Newcon LRF. Last night I finished rigging and collimating a fiber optic projection from a COTI into the prism lens system of a PLRF-10. It now fuses red-hot /...
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    Night Vision My NV range finder project took a turn

    A superb, laser range-finder for use with night vision is the Vectronix PLRF-10/15. Easily, quickly and reliably ranging just about anything from 2,500 / 3,500 yards and beyond in bright sunlight, and even further in darkness, you're going to need a THOR rifle in .408 Cheytac, etc. to reach...
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    Night Vision Clip-on Thermal Question

    We work with many makers, and I'd rather not get into the politics of product comparisons. There's a lot of personalities on these boards, with different / contrasting / competing product allegiances in addition to personal alliances, business agendas, and even long-standing animosities and...
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    Night Vision Clip-on Thermal Question

    You'll get your best results keeping the digital presentation on the LWTS at 1x and using your dayscope as the exclusive source of magnification. Digital zoom gives more "degradation" on the image quality, when used alone or with magnification from a day scope. In regard to thermal...
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    LRF binoculars with mil reticle

    Ah, sorry about that rocdoc - my bad on the reading comp. The Vectronix Vector 21 uses the same line-point, mil reticle as described for the PLRF-05/10/15 but in binocular optics. The center of the reticle is a "donut" of 1 mil diameter, and has the illuminated box that can be activated at...
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    LRF binoculars with mil reticle

    The Vectronix PLRF-05, 10, and 15 all have line-point, mil reticles. Line to line or dot to dot is 10 mils. Point to line or line to point is 5 mils. The PLRF 10 and 15 have an illuminated box at the optical center that can activated at user option. The inside, horizontal and vertical...
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    Night Vision Clip-on Thermal Question

    When an image appears "pixelated" depends on a lot of factors: the size of the pixels, the acuity of your vision, the amount of contrast on the edge of objects being viewed, and the size of the objects being viewed in relation to pixel size. Generally, pixelation where a straight, diagonal line...
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    Night Vision Clip-on Thermal Question

    golden_311, It is designed and built to sustain recoil forces up to those generated, on average, by the .50 BMG cartridge. The reason why these "limits" or "ratings" are not published is because there are actually many more factors than just the general size / energy of the cartridge that...
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    Night Vision Clip-on Thermal Question

    My pleasure to help! Congratulations on your LWTS purchase - it will serve you well, and will provide to you great pride in ownership. IR-V
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    Night Vision Clip-on Thermal Question

    My pleasure to help, cake5150. I was trying to point out that the L3 LWTS is a quality optic that does NOT have optical alignment problems. Though the ideal arrangement is to have the optical axis (center line-of-sight) on your day scope aligned with the optical axis (center line-of-sight) of...
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    Night Vision Clip-on Thermal Question

    That is actually a very good question, and someone should answer it. So, I will. If you use the electronic reticle (on the LWTS), which is put right into the pixel matrix of the display, there will be no parallax. This is because the focal plane of the display and the focal plane of the...
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    Night Vision do you need both NV gen3 scope and thermal RS scope

    For a tight budget, I recommend night vision on your head, thermal imager on your rifle, and IR laser aimer on handgun. If you can have only one and not both, then I recommend night vision on your head, and IR laser aimer on your rifles and handguns. NV (night vision) and TI (thermal imaging)...
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    Night Vision FLIR Thermosight T60 + Barrett M82A1 Recoil Impulse

    You're welcome, sumkrnboy. The M3 is quite heavy all by itself and even in a portable configuration requires at least two people to move it. The M107s we used for the testing are the standalone rifles with just the thermal imager, day scope, bipod, and suppressor. The T60 is an extremely...
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