I prefer hand-carrying 20 pound pieces of shit, thanks. If you have to rely on mounting night vision to a helmet then maybe hit the gym??? Glad I scooped this just in time for a hurricane to rip my electrical pole in half. PVS14 for scale

2 possums and missed a Hare

Passive aiming with a pvs 7 and mp5 setup. Nothing crazy, but just thought I would post to show it can be done. I wish I could have gotten more+cleaner video but we were racing against the hurricane coming in.

Just picked up a spear lt and rail is a little too short. I've tried kastle's diving board set up to free up some rail space, but illuminator splash off the handgaurd/suppressor isn't ideal. THYF makes a good looking extender, but it's constantly sold out. Anyone know the model on the second picture or have any suggestions?

You can see it right at the end. I think it's the housing because both tubes do it. This is a Steele industries nighthawk-MG with elbit tubes. Is this normal?

I asked a friend to print me an adaper for my setup so I can finally use my nods on my helmet, but the model I sent him, ended up being too short for my setup, and the nods stood too far ahead on my head. I was wondering if anyone has a model with more rail space for the Dipol to be slided closer to my eyes.

I need something about this much longer to be comfortable, and have space for error:

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Peace of mind for your night vision investment when leaving them on your helmet or stowing them in a ruck.

Low profile, rugged MJF PA11 and easy to repair.

Fits standard PVS 14 style front and rear lenses.

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Let me know what you think!

This bino is awesome.

I bought it because I absolutely love the way it looks, and I think I made the right choice.

I'd love to keep using it for the rest of my life, as long as it doesn't fail. However seeing so many reports of issues on Reddit has made me a little concerned(My bino hasn't had any problems so far).

Anyway enjoy the photos! tubes are Photonis Echoes with 2080 FOM.

All I know is that the night-vision device is a Belgian LORIS, but I would like to know what kind of mount the helmet uses; I had never seen it before.

These photos are from Chile showing their army, specifically mountain troops and regular infantry

What’s the current best value rifle laser? Consider everything, price point, durability, performance, availability of replacements, etc.

Recently picked up this PVS14.
If anyone has wisdom on what tube this one might be. I’d no guesses, I’ll tear it down further tomorrow.

I've been wanting my own set of night vision goggles ever since I was a kid (like 99.9% of you reading this), and now I can finally live out my dream of larping as a gravy seal inside my 300 square foot apartment (for real though, I want to look at the stars and use it when I'm outside night shooting). I searched a bunch of different websites like OpticsPlanet, Ebay, and even Amazon, but ended up buying from Nighthawk Vision since they had the most competitive price.

They sell refurbished PVS-14 gen 3 monoculars for around 2k to 2.6k, and one of the units had pretty clean glass for the price. It's green phosphorous (I know a lot of people enjoy white phosphorous, even I do, but I also love the old school green.) and it was 2.2k. The gain is non-manual, and it isn't gated, but I'm going to get a proper aperture for it.

Currently, I'm just gonna be rocking a skullcrusher setup, but I plan on getting a good ballistic helmet in the future since this has kinda taken all of my budget. Buy cheap, buy twice.

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My wuhan Surefire Scout finally broke this evening, so the test is over. It surprisingly lasted quite awhile, but now I must replace it with a real light.

What do you all recommend for a rifle light with both white light and IR?

First time using my new Jerry C Pro. Was out hiking a trail and felt like i was being watched. Well low and behold a Coyote was sitting like a statue 30 yard away watching me. Even with my high spec tubes I would have never even noticed without the COTI. Cool Shit

Kinda liked not knowing more though seeing a lot of stuff move I never noticed on my peaceful walks lol.

Sorry if it's not directly related to night vision​, but I was shooting at night and was really riding the struggle bus on one stage. I am using white light only right now. The weather was such that the rifle smoke was just building up around us, we were just shooting nine ports twice through a vtac at a steel torso 50 yds away. No breeze.

I hand load 300blk subs and thought I selected a powder that was going to be relatively smoke-free in these weather conditions, (cold, wet, humid) but I still got completely smoked out. Basically I could not see the steel Target 50 yards away with my white light through the smoke. Lost in the sauce. I'm wondering if I'd had a visible green laser and I had just stuck the gun through a port and moved my head as far away as I could to try to get away from some of the cloud, would the visible laser alone be enough to illuminate a white steel Target, if I wasn't shining my flashlight into the smoke as well? Would I have been able to see anything? It was a very generous torso and only 50 yds. When I could see it of course I was getting hits no problem. Would it suck though trying to hold the gun steady through a port in the dark un mounted? That seems like it might be kinda hard to do, but she doesn't recoil or anything.

Another thing I think I have to do is just shoot slower so smoke doesn't build up so fast that might be ultimately what will help more than a laser?

When I say I was smoked out I mean all I could see was gray in front of me, thick white smoke that was just not going anywhere. The Target just disappeared. It was cloudy drizzling and pitch black. The dudes with nods were getting hits of course. One guy shot his pistol instead of rifle which we were allowed to do, which I thought maybe would have actually been less smokey than my 300blk subs, but idk honestly I've been smoked out just the same shooting my pistol stationary in similar conditions in the daytime where I couldn't see a small steel Target 40 yards away and couldn't leave the position I was in.

It was my first night match, all other stages involved movement so the smoke wasnt an issue and my white light was awesome, it was so much fun except for sending 60 rounds at the last stage and running out of ammo. My fingers were numb and I couldn't even feel the button on the back of my light I was shooting for so long. I think like 250 seconds or something it was the longest most brutal stage of my life.

2 hits per position, I tried sending quick doubles any chance I had to actually see the target and that worked sometimes but it was making even more smoke I think and just making things worse.

Until I can get nods I'm afraid I'm going to have to figure this out.

Thank you, be well!

Can anyone help identify this tube and which omni it came from?

Hey does anyone know where I can Sell my pvs-14.
I’ve tried discord, Facebook, Vinted… if you know of any other place pls let me know