I was finally able to get time to sight in my new-ish LWTS that I bought a few weeks ago at MHSA. Apologies for my ignorance - is there any reason why I can’t sight in during daylight hours? I started on paper - in the foreground - and then went to steel - the two plates in the background are 4” and 6”.
Night Vision Sighting in my LWTS
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No reason at all, I zeroed mine in daylight. You will typically get better contrast on standard black and white targets in good sunlight since the black portions of the target heat up a bit more than the plain white paper. Congrats on your purchase, they are great scopes. The controls are just so well thought out and yow that sexy image 
Did you do anything other than mount it in front of the day scope?
Maybe he meant he was measuring the POI shift? If so, I did the same thing when I got mine. Aside from the tiny vertical offset caused by the periscope design, the POI shift was negligible. Great scopes, I loved mine.
Reason I ask is I am experiencing a substantial impact shift with mine. I’m assuming it’s something simple, but I haven’t figured it out yet.
Well, it does look like with the LWTS in front of the NF I am about 1/2 mil high - is this typical? I double checked the NF and it’s spot on. I do need to get back and double check the LWTS as a dedicated unit - I think it was also a bit high - I had to hold low but I don’t know by how much because the manual doesn’t have any info on the M4/M16 reticle. Any ideas?
Mine is more like 5 moa
Ok - so about 1.5 mils. I could be a 1 mil high - I was back on the bottom of the 6’” plate about a third of the way up to center by dialing .5 down but it started snowing so I stopped.
is this a typical or a known issue?
is this a typical or a known issue?
No. Normally they are with in 1 moa or .3-.4 mills. I’ve been back and forth emailing l3 the last few days. I’ll let you know what I come up with.
Is it possible that the reticle has to be zeroed in dedicated mode in order for the thermal to be POI aligned in clip-on mode even though the reticle isn’t in use?
I zeroed the reticle in NFOV or 3X which means that the center dot is 300 yds. but I’m zeroing at 100 yds. I had a tough time zeroing at WFOV/1X.
I zeroed the reticle in NFOV or 3X which means that the center dot is 300 yds. but I’m zeroing at 100 yds. I had a tough time zeroing at WFOV/1X.
Are you talking about zeroing the lwts as a stand-alone scope or you moving the lwts reticle to line up with the reticle in your day optic?
Sorry I should have been more clear - I’m talking about how zeroing the LWTS in stand-alone might effect how this impacts POI in clip-on mode. When you set it to clip-on mode the reticle goes away and I’m using the day scope reticle. But I’m still wondering if even though there’s not a reticle in view zeroing still matters - because could explain why I’m off by 1 mil in clip on mode.
From what I understand the reticle moves on the screen when you sight it in so the adjustments are not relevant to your poi when used in clip on mode with a day optic.
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