Night Vision Scope

[Mongo40]

I'm looking at getting a night vision scope, wanting to stay under a $1000, I've looked at a Pulsar and the ATN's but reviews are all over the place on them, does anyone have a recommendation, I don't need all the bells an whistles, "Blue Tooth, video, range finding" just a decent night vision capability. Thanks!

[sketch]

@Rsquared this bro might have some insight to the night lite? 

[308kiwi]

This is one I've cobbled together out of a couple of surplus P8079H tubes, and a couple of camera lenses. Works great, just got to make it all a bit more permanent and make a mounting system for it.

It has no cross hairs but I'm planning on integrating a laser into the mount to effectively give me a 'dot' instead of cross hairs.

Cost me like $100 for the tubes and a few bucks at a second hand shop for the lenses.

[98Z5V]

30 minutes ago, 308kiwi said:

This is one I've cobbled together out of a couple of...

You are an Animal, brother!  ANIMAL!!!  

THAT IS BADASS!!!   

[308kiwi]

12 minutes ago, 98Z5V said:

You are an Animal, brother!  ANIMAL!!!  

THAT IS BADASS!!!   

Damn straight

 

[98Z5V]

I have no fucking clue how much plane tickets will cost me, but I want to come over there and just hang out for a week, and see the shiit you do...  

[308kiwi]

1 hour ago, 98Z5V said:

I have no fucking clue how much plane tickets will cost me, but I want to come over there and just hang out for a week, and see the shiit you do...  

You'd be most welcome, but we live a pretty quiet life.

99.9% of what goes on in my workshop is just run of the mill boring stuff that barely pays for replacement cutting tips and end mills.

But I do have some interesting projects that I'm working on, will feed them in here as they progress......................

 

[Mongo40]

That is cool but building a night sight is way out of my league!!! No knowledge about them at all other than using them in the military.

[308kiwi]

4 hours ago, Mongo40 said:

That is cool but building a night sight is way out of my league!!! No knowledge about them at all other than using them in the military.

Yeah what I posted probably doesn't help with your original question, but......options dude, options?

[ARTrooper]

@308kiwi if you came to America, you could probably get a nice cushy job in the firearm industry. Maybe Rob will hire you for his crazy projects. lol.

[308kiwi]

7 hours ago, ARTrooper said:

@308kiwi if you came to America, you could probably get a nice cushy job in the firearm industry. Maybe Rob will hire you for his crazy projects. lol.

I'll know I've made it in life when my job description is...............'head of crazy projects division'

[ARTrooper]

Well now, you don't always start out at the head, sometimes you got to spend some time with at the balls.

[308kiwi]

12 hours ago, ARTrooper said:

Well now, you don't always start out at the head, sometimes you got to spend some time with at the balls.

?Oh don't I know it, but it would be a good job description to retire to

[ARTrooper]

Hell you might never want to retire. at least playing with guns is what I plan on doing when I retire anyways. lol.

[mineralman55]

On 11/18/2018 at 2:51 PM, ARTrooper said:

Hell you might never want to retire. at least playing with guns is what I plan on doing when I retire anyways. lol.

I thought I would too after retiring. You can count on three fingers how many times i've been to the range since retiring. Geez, where does the time go?

[ARTrooper]

I've only ever been to the range when I was in the military or on duty as an officer. I have never been to any sort of formal range otherwise. I'm just a country boy shooting in the back field and taking care of critters around the property. ?