For daylight shooting out to 1000+ yards, you can use a laser rangefinder. But what about at night with a thermal weapon sight? I can see the target on thermal, but how do I range it? Can't use the laser...
Ranging with thermal weapon sight at night
- Thread starter Mr.Magoo
- Start date
Buy a weapon mounted LRF and make its beam co-incident with your scope at 300 yds (or whatever your zero is). Clip on the thermal and away you go.
Yes, it is possible to co-witness a WMLRF to a thermal scope - I've done it often. I used a tripod and locked in the thermal scope aimed at the center of a smallish man made object at 400-ish yards (use further away if you can) and then carefully adjusted the elevation and windage knobs of the WMLRF while checking to make sure the weapon/scope weren't moving.
I used a second rifle with a NV clipon to observe the co-witnessing laser on the WMLRF (often I could get close with a pvs-14 on my head and then just use the second rifle/tripod with nv clipon for fine tuning).
After I thought I had it I would test ranging known distance targets to be sure. Rarely I would have to repeat the process to make it better.
I used this mk18ish a lot as a spotter for a 300WM with a 5-25x scope and a UTC-x clipon. So the spotter was responsible for determining the distance and doing the ballistics for the shooter (often me doing spotter role for a buddy - teaching us to team shoot). But it worked !
I could see the bullet flying thru the air - the splash of dirt from a miss (we were shooting only at night) and the splash of the bullet fragmenting on the steel - and I could range all the targets from different positions etc.
I used a second rifle with a NV clipon to observe the co-witnessing laser on the WMLRF (often I could get close with a pvs-14 on my head and then just use the second rifle/tripod with nv clipon for fine tuning).
After I thought I had it I would test ranging known distance targets to be sure. Rarely I would have to repeat the process to make it better.
I used this mk18ish a lot as a spotter for a 300WM with a 5-25x scope and a UTC-x clipon. So the spotter was responsible for determining the distance and doing the ballistics for the shooter (often me doing spotter role for a buddy - teaching us to team shoot). But it worked !
I could see the bullet flying thru the air - the splash of dirt from a miss (we were shooting only at night) and the splash of the bullet fragmenting on the steel - and I could range all the targets from different positions etc.
Trying to engage an UK distance target at 1000+ yards out at night and you think $250 will do it? 15K on a grown ass man's hobby isn't much dude. Freaking poors.^ and all for only a mere 15K ~
Similar threads
