night vision

PVS14 is legit

You can get great quality for 3-6k. Make sure you get a good tube warranty.

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I have a "cost effective" NV scope for my AR. Not really sure that I would trust it to hold zero on a .308 though...the .223/5.56 is pretty easy on it. I love mine, even though it's not military grade or the clearest optic made. However, for my purposes (nutria, beavers, coyotes, hogs, etc) it's just about perfect.

oh yeah, it's an Armasight OPMOD (Optics Planet Model). 3x or 4x magnification if I remember correctly. it also has an illuminator on it that is crucial to actually seeing things with no ambient light available.

If you plan on throwing the bank at this, go with thermal sights. the functionality of them is seriously awesome, and the "cool" factor is off the charts.

just my $.02

eta: I have a pic of mine somewhere...if I find it I'll try to have KR post it for me so you can see what it looks like.

Thanks for all the input. I think I have settled on the armasight nemesis 6x ID model. going to buy it from optics planet. they have the best prices and are the biggest seller of night vision from armasight. i spoke with a tech buy with armasight and they gave a lot of information and input. they suggested that model because of the amount of usage and cost. living in south Louisiana between fishing and hunting its not like I am going to be able to use it all the time so i think for the price and amount i will get to play with it, thats the best option.

got it in and all together, i will be trying it out for the first time next weekend at the camp. i live in ascension parish so i walked outside and obviously had to try it out. the ambient light isn't low enough to get a good judge. i can however see things just a 100 yards away that i couldn't see with the naked eye. i also can easily see things probably 250 to 300 yards away if i had to make that shot. i don't know if i would simply because of a few factors,1 it would be hard to track and start to find a blood trail in the pitch black from something that was shot from that distance unless you absolutely new where the animal was standing. the size of the target to the cross hairs at that distance is a little big. now with that being said I'm not saying a 300 yard shot isn't possible but I'm sure from 100 to 150 is definitely kill range. ill let you know more once its put to a good field test. on down side that i have hear about night vision. ITS A HEAVY GUN!!!!! i could easily make a 50 to maybe 80 yard shot free hand but any longer i might use a rest or a bipod or tripod shooting stick. if i had to do it over i might have used a smaller .308 frame rather than a rock river varmit gun which has a stainless steel 20" barrel but i love the gun its a beast!!!!!!

I know if you can get your hands on some mid-90's army ranger stuff, it's pretty badass.

That's the extent of my night vision knowledge.

I just saw that Flir announced their RS line at shot show. If anyone has too much money laying around and wants something better than NV, check it out.