Count me in! I don't have any NV but I can strap a big flashlight to my SKS! lol
Hopefully they don't close the area to recreational shooting before the shoot happens like they did with sylvester last time a thread like this occurred...
Night setup rifles
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Count me in! I don't have any NV but I can strap a big flashlight to my SKS! lol
Hopefully they don't close the area to recreational shooting before the shoot happens like they did with sylvester last time a thread like this occurred...
Hot dawg, are we resurrecting this thread? Geologist I love that ghetto FLIR setup. I miss my little 10-22
I don't have that 10/22 anymore.as.I replaced it with a TUF22 but I will try to mount the Flir with a 45 degree mount on the rail left over from mounting my scope.
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I'm wondering if I shouldn't try the next 10/22 SBR I make with the Armasight setup. I'm thinking about using a faux-can and a folding stock to maintain the NR OAL requirements.
Someday...
I'd just decide on the folding stock first then choose the shortest barrel that would keep it compliant with the regs though I would make sure that the barrel crown was threaded 1/2" x 28.
The 10/22 and clones is such a fun platform with the large number of accessories to choose from. Shame that the Liberal controlled RCMP Criminal Operations Branch made the 25 round mags prohib.
I'm working with what I'm familiar with, the standard classics
Very nice, how does that IR laser work?
It's a Paq4c, which is kind of old school. I like the paddle switch so much that I don't bother with the pressure pad most of the time. AA batteries are common between the laser and the NOD. I've used the PVS14/paq4c combo for years in the army so I have confidence in this setup
I have a PAQ4c as well as an ATPIAL-c, and honestly I prefer using the PAQ for that paddle switch, so it's on my main night gun. The ATPIAL gets moved around, as the slaved visible laser makes it quick and easy to zero.
I went with an MR-1 with the barrel chopped to 18.5".
The IR aiming laser is a Lasermax, the flashlight is a Nitecore IR (a bit floody but still very bright) and the NOD is a PVS-14 Gen3.
I was training tonight in the darkened yard and it is amazing how much you see with just ambient light. So much so that after a while when my night vision in my dominant non-NOD eye was at max, I felt exposed as I could see so much but in reality I was standing in the dark and not visible to the unaided eye.
It's foggy tonight and the IR laser line glowed brightly unlike in clear air where it is only visible when it strikes something solid.
I do find the rifle heavy and think that for night work, it will be better to remove the Primary Arms 1-6X in its PEPR QD mount as they are almost impossible to use.
If anyone else has a night setup I'd love to see it and hear any thoughts on it.
A bit off-topic (apologies), but where did you locate that Bayonet lug? I have been searching for one for a long time now without success....
Someone here on one of my deranged threads told me where to order them online in Canada and for the life if me I can't remember and I need another for my Rem 7600 build........
Not exactly a "rifle", but....
I had to mount the thermal viewer higher than planned to clear the charging handle.... I originally had it mounted farther back toward the red dot, and lower, but my ####ty close-up vision made it hard to see the display clearly. Might put it on a different gun.
Lookin' like a fellow Sector/Torrey Pines owner, cool. Never saw this thread before. I have 2 of their things - an old T12-N low-res thing inadequate for zero on rats with an airgun even at 5 metres due to pixels being so big compared to reticle adjust steps, but I love it as a rat spotter they can't see, then switch on my dim IR emitter and adapted Carson Mini Aura infrared behind a 3x scope and can drop them in a second or two to 25 yards. The T12 is a decent enough bare bones thermal spotter, not much more.
The T20 gets a bit more serious for double the price - paid a bit over $1,000, dirt cheap as thermal goes. Still not super crispy like a Russian-made iRay - a friend has one about the size of a holographic site but like a little pop-up TV on one of his Benelli semi-autos, for about $1,700 and the definition makes me envious. The T20 gives me 'minute of letter size paper' to about 60 yards. I have it mounted on the side of my TNW ASR 9mm carbine, tucked in below and to the left of a 2-10x FFP scope. So day and night covered on one carbine, just a tilt of the head slightly down and left for night shooting.
Why? Because reason. What if, sorts of reasons. Just in case. Things we're not legally allowed to even think about I guess, like what if our government drives this country into chaos... Anyway, it's there and it's fun, and I have it on a solid 45 degree QD mount (so it comes off in a second to be usable as a convenient non-weapon-mounted spotting scope) with a lens adapted to it on a tube I built such that it has the same gap as my eye to the scope above, very comfortable viewing for these old eyes, and zero spill onto my face around the eye with green (or whatever palette I select) only on my eye itself. Low drag high speed kind of thing. Lots of rechargeable CR2 batteries and a solar-compatible charger for those too. Gives me maybe an hour per battery. If I shoot a few into something at 50 yards with the day scope, I can see the hot lead with the thermal clearly enough at the same range.
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Its simple and it works. You are missing the Insight M3x Tactical Illuminator (with the IR flip up filter). Not being sarcastic, it is the setup I used as well and it worked
I've been in the NV game for a little over a year now. Funnily enough, it's actually paid for itself.
Photonis tubes in an Aeternus housing from Cold Harbour Supply. Also have a PVS-14 from Cold Harbour equipped with the Ruggedized Aluminum J-Arm made for CHS by Volk CNC Machine. If you have a PVS-14, you need to be using one of these J-arms. The dogleg arm allows your NV to stow super close to the helmet. Cadex helmet mount on a TEAM Wendy bump helmet. Just added some Earmor comms headsets to play with. So far they are damn good for the price. I highly recommend them for those who have blown their load on the NV and are poor now.
Rifle is the good old reliable Tavor Tar21. One of the first batch of rifles imported from Israel, this thing rides in my truck and farm equipment. Custom brake that crushed recoil but is more obnoxious than it's worth, pulling it off tomorrow. Threaded collar behind the brake is for the QD gold ball launching cup. Outfitted with a Perst-3 I got a couple weeks before the war started. I normally mount it further back but I've put the LPVO on to do some testing with a clip on thermal. I usually run an NV compatible reddot (either Vortex or a Sig Romeo) when doing NV shooting and the Perst doesn't hang off the rail. I also have an IR filter that I can't pop onto the Surefire white light.
Photonis tubes in an Aeternus housing from Cold Harbour Supply. Also have a PVS-14 from Cold Harbour equipped with the Ruggedized Aluminum J-Arm made for CHS by Volk CNC Machine. If you have a PVS-14, you need to be using one of these J-arms. The dogleg arm allows your NV to stow super close to the helmet. Cadex helmet mount on a TEAM Wendy bump helmet. Just added some Earmor comms headsets to play with. So far they are damn good for the price. I highly recommend them for those who have blown their load on the NV and are poor now.
Rifle is the good old reliable Tavor Tar21. One of the first batch of rifles imported from Israel, this thing rides in my truck and farm equipment. Custom brake that crushed recoil but is more obnoxious than it's worth, pulling it off tomorrow. Threaded collar behind the brake is for the QD gold ball launching cup. Outfitted with a Perst-3 I got a couple weeks before the war started. I normally mount it further back but I've put the LPVO on to do some testing with a clip on thermal. I usually run an NV compatible reddot (either Vortex or a Sig Romeo) when doing NV shooting and the Perst doesn't hang off the rail. I also have an IR filter that I can't pop onto the Surefire white light.
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Don’t do it. Unit has no crosshair and isn’t rated for recoil.
It can be done with picatinny to tripod adapters, but they’re often not built for recoil either.
