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Old 18th Jun 2008, 08:04   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: night vision scopes

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Originally Posted by anxiousryan View Post
i understand that these things cant be cheap but can anyone give me a shop name or a website that does night vision scopes that also work in day that are low priced but effective, like i sed i realise these things cant be cheap so please leave me a website or name or wat eva if u know any where cheers.
There is no such thing as a cheap NV scope. Anything less than three or four hundred pounds is going to be substandard and more or less useless. The problem is that the very cheap scopes don't have adjustable aiming reticules and are more or less like looking through a telescope with a fixed wire cross-hair. On the other hand the tubes are so useless that your not going to see a rabbit size target much over 20 yds. Look for the 'red star' branding as these have some great tubes (gen 1). IMHO NV scopes are crap in the day time so a good comprimise is to clamp a NV monocular to the back of a normal rifle scope. All night vision equipment can be improved with the addition of an IR lamp (infra-red lamp and not a red filter!); making Gen1 look almost like gen1+, gen1+ almost like gen2 and so on.

All said and done be prepared to spend around £400 on a half tidy NV scope.

John
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