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Thermal Scope vs Clip on
The primary benefit of thermal clipons is for longer distances, being able to use your day scope reticle. If you are shooting critters under 300yds, a thermal weapons sight (TWS) is a much cheaper option. Long distance thermal clipons (LDTC) that we can buy and that are highly collimated...- wigwamitus
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Range finder for thermal
Your unit is a Zeus Pro and those rangefinders were designed to work with the Pro Line. But AFAIK they stopped making those range finders in 2016ish so 8ish years ago. I know a total of 2 people who had them and stefan73 was one of them. So, bottom line it might be a looong wait before...- wigwamitus
- Post #23
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Leupold MK5 HD 2-10 vs MK4 HD 2.5-10
This has been discussed before and the consensus was NO. I had 4 different 2 or 2.5 to 8 or 10 a few years ago. Two of them had adjustable parallax and 2 did not ... for instance the NF NXS 2.5-10x SFP did have parallax knob. But I learned it was unnecessary for 100yds plus. If one...- wigwamitus
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Leupold MK5 HD 2-10 vs MK4 HD 2.5-10
One spec that differentiates, the 2.5-10 has a dialing range of 24.7 MILs ... whereas the 2-10x has 48 MILs ... almost double !!- wigwamitus
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anyone check out wills optics lately
Those are the "scare away the botsNscammers" prices :D If somebody wanted to buy something, call em on the phone.- wigwamitus
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Night Vision Night Ops
2024-03-02 2000-2400 40F 15 MPH S Goal: Check this pasture for yotes Environment: Above freezing, clear, windy. We could see big dipper, cass and hence polaris above our heads and orion to the S. Equipment: me(7PRC bolt gun, nx8 2.5-20x t3, Pot M thermal clipon, radius LRF...- wigwamitus
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2024 Night Vision and Thermal Advice
As to helmet, either Ops Core or Team Wendy are fine. The TW do have non standard side rails, so you'll have to account for that. The only stuff I mount on the side rails these days are comms headsets, though there are workarounds for that - so its not really an issue. There are...- wigwamitus
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2024 Night Vision and Thermal Advice
I bought my first NV in Apr 2013 and have spent an avg 10 hrs per week outside since. I had a $20k budget at that point and thought that would be enough for a one time "splurge" and I'd never need anything else (oh boy - was I wong ! :D ) I now realize getting into learning about and owning and...- wigwamitus
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Night Vision Now @ SOK: Guide Sensmart Thermals
I've spent several nights out with a couple of these in different conditions and settings. They seem to be a great fit as low cost units, with usable 384 units being under $2k and usable 640s under $3k. The manual focus helps a lot. I've used them as handheld and tripod mounted scanners...- wigwamitus
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Night Vision New Armasight Units (Sidekick and Jockey 640s)
Asking ... ... Well got fast response anyway ... we are hearing "now looking at April" ... my question was specifically regarding the 640 jockey.- wigwamitus
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New 2024 MPVO Options
FYI, I do NOT mean the same thing :) I specifically use the word "parallax" to mean "removing parallax by adjusting the parallax knob" while moving my head back and forth (usually left to right in my case) to judge whether the reticle and target are in the same distance plane. I've had...- wigwamitus
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New 2024 MPVO Options
2018-2019 i got several mpvos nxs 2.5-10x42 sfp trijicon credo 2-10x ffp vo pst g2 2-10x ffp l&s mk4 2.5-8x sfp I got the nxs first and got it because it had zero stop and parallax knob. I work in the day, so shoot/critter control mostly at night. Since sfp, I figured, if I would dial at night...- wigwamitus
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Night Vision trijicon oasys
But keep saving up those $10k notes, you're gonna need a pile of em !!! :D- wigwamitus
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If you got rid of a Leupold MK5 5-25x-56, why did you do so?
Why ? It had a pronounced "fish eye" effect - I was quite surprised ! I had an early one, maybe it was a lemon ? == == NF Atacr 7-35x F1 For a big heavy scope, it was great. I shot with it mostly on 7x to 15x but used the higher magnifications for spotting and seeing the mirage...- wigwamitus
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Night Vision Night Ops
2024-02-10 1800-2200 35F 10 MPH NNE Goals: Reduce yote population in neighbor BILs pasture. Test Pot ML. Test Armasight Sidekick. Environment: Windy, cool, partly cloudy. Orion and B dipper visible but cass and Polaris not visible. Pastures are mostly flat, woods to the SW, S and SE, open...- wigwamitus
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Night Vision New Armasight Units (Sidekick and Jockey 640s)
Another example - this time a predator I'd seen glimpses of was out in the woods behind the chicken area. With mk1 eyeballs or binos I could not find it, there was a huge area to search. So I got the thermal. The thermal quickly located the critter and I could take appropriate action...- wigwamitus
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Night Vision New Armasight Units (Sidekick and Jockey 640s)
People may want that - but they need to move on from that idea. I'll give you an example. When I got my first thermal, I already had a pvs-14. I took both out to my alfalfa patch an 18ish acre patch with trees on E and S. With the 14 I saw an empty pasture, with the thermal I saw...- wigwamitus
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Night Vision New Armasight Units (Sidekick and Jockey 640s)
Wow - I should've written this ! Great wording !! :) I would put this into a context. There are 3 components to the thermal image you see thru a given device on a given night when looking at a given scene (yes, every device is different, every night is different and every scene is...- wigwamitus
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