Son just gave me a night vision monocular as a late Christmas gift as it
was hung up in shipping.
Wonder if it is useful blood trailing in the dark or seeing deer coming
out just prior to the end of shooting time?
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:22:28 -0500, Frank wrote:
Son just gave me a night vision monocular as a late Christmas gift as it...
was hung up in shipping.
Wonder if it is useful blood trailing in the dark or seeing deer coming
out just prior to the end of shooting time?
Not deer - apart from anything else the law here makes it illegal to hunt deer "after the hours of darkness", without a special permit. An anti- poaching measure. Also it is a photomultiplier - whilst it is sensitive
in the IR it isn't a thermal imager: the ranges at which deer would be observed are typically too great for a handheld (I've an old Yukon one)
to be much use.
It is useful for shorter-range quarry like rabbit or hare.
Also, whilst top-end photomultipliers are very good, they're also very pricey. In terms of price/performance, CCD-based solutions perform pretty well. I use a Yukon Photon riflescope - again on rabbit and hare (it is
on a .22LR carbine) though I'm aware that some have had success with
them, on fox.
I got mine from ATN ( http://www.atncorp.com/night-vision-monoculars , based on digital technology, of course ) and yep, itīs a very helpful device. I checked it at the latest bear hunt, and canīt wait next legal deer hunt in March to try it out again.
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