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Night Vision, Thermal, Day Optic, & Range Finder For $1099

submitted by deleted to Guns 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 15:06:27 ago (+7/-0)     (Guns)

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[ - ] stillmostlyfriendly 3 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 15:28:59 ago (+3/-0)

Just remember - this is great for hunting hogs who don't have their own optics packages.

For defending yourself from bad people, especially bad people with military gear ... this is a death sentence.

Such a massive difference between active night vision and passive night vision.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 2 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 20:32:07 ago (+2/-0)

Passive is massively expensive though. What you can do, however, is have the active portion nowhere near your head.

[ - ] stillmostlyfriendly 2 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 22:12:42 ago (+2/-0)

Yes, but not as bad. When I was first an adult (too years ago), passive cost ~$25K. Today ~$5K. It will get better.

I've had the opportunity to play with passive and active in some friendly nighttime paintball 'war games' ... holy crap - anyone with passive (no matter how they skilled or kitted out else-wise) had such a ridiculous advantage ... wasn't even a challenge.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 9 monthsSep 7, 2024 11:04:17 ago (+1/-0)

I got to watch the stars one night with a top of the line passive set. It was interesting just how much I could see by starlight. There's a lot of meteors hitting Earth that you don't normally see.

[ - ] BulletStopper [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 7, 2024 01:29:40 ago (+0/-0)

I'm old enough to remember "Pong" when it first appeared in front of the K-Mart in a big quarter-operated console, and the first red LED wristwatches were a couple hundred bucks apiece because they each had to be practically hand-built.

Long distance phone calls were $7.00 a minute and suitcase cell phones cost $4,000 apiece and service (where you could get it) was an additional couple hundred a month.

Now you can carry around more computer power in your back pocket than all of NASA had in 1969.

... wasn't even a challenge.

Which gives you a small taste of what having thermals in AFG was like. Like having a super-power.

[ - ] clymer 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 20:32:30 ago (+0/-0)

Any tips on an inexpensive but good thermal monocular?

[ - ] BulletStopper [op] 2 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 20:41:32 ago (+2/-0)*

Congratulations on using the words "inexpensive", "good", and "thermal" in one sentence.

There is an old engineering saying:

1) You can have it good
2) You can have it cheap
3) You can have it fast

But you can only pick two of those three.

https://www.atncorp.com/thermal-monoculars
https://theoptics.org/best-thermal-monocular/
https://www.midwayusa.com/best-products/5-best-thermal-monoculars

[ - ] clymer 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 22:49:22 ago (+0/-0)

OK, i'll take good and cheap lol. Thanks for the links, i'm thinking I may have to patrol my street during the zombie apocalypse, Do you have a preference (i.e. Flir Scout TK for 550. used on amazon is within the budget for me) Thanks again, helpful stuff

[ - ] BulletStopper [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 7, 2024 01:20:25 ago (+0/-0)

But just remember, if you picked "good" and "cheap", it ain't gonna be "fast".

[ - ] DitchPig 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 15:57:58 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah, but how reliable is it?

Milspec gear is expensive because it is built to withstand actual combat.

That doesn't look like it's built to withstand wombat.

[ - ] BulletStopper [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 17:24:41 ago (+0/-0)*

Which begs the question: "Just exactly how wily, aggressive, and well equipped are the feral hogs where you live?"

I mean, I'm in south Texas, which is pretty much regarded as feral hog central, but maybe yalls hogs are different.

[ - ] DitchPig 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 17:35:37 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah, saw the specs. It's useless 1st gen tech.

Shine a spotlight into the night. Here I am!

[ - ] BulletStopper [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 17:37:51 ago (+0/-0)

Just out of sheer curiosity, how exactly do you think thermal imaging works?

[ - ] DitchPig 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 18:05:21 ago (+0/-0)

By passively sensing thermal energy.

You reckon thermals need an IR flood?

kek

[ - ] BulletStopper [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 20:46:21 ago (+0/-0)

Why I asked. Because that's exactly what it sounded like your were saying.

Which is why no .mil worth the name has used that type of IR system since the mid-70's. It's a big "Kill Me First" sign.

Fortunately, deer and hogs have yet to learn to "assault into the ambush". Yet.

[ - ] DitchPig 0 points 9 monthsSep 7, 2024 05:20:23 ago (+0/-0)

We are saying the same thing.

[ - ] Spaceman84 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 15:17:58 ago (+0/-0)

Good for the price but it should be noted that while the NV sensor resolution is 1920x1080 the display is only 1024x768. Arken Zulus has a full 1920x1080 display, though it isn't an equivalent product.