Night Vision... is it worth it?

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Permalink Reply by Perkins on July 23, 2008 at 2:40pm

My opinion is in short NV is a great asset! But there are many things you have to consider;

Can you afford it? If you buy a Gen 1 people with better gear need less 'light', so your IR will light up like a flood light to them. However if you are playing with a good amount of starlight Gen1 will afford a good enough image at 90m with no external IR, and roughly 180m with a full moon. this within Airsoft Range.

Do a lot of people use flashlights? If so with lower end NVDs a slight flash to the face can be your enemy. I have found it better to go with no NVD when there are a lot of people using there cool new flashlights.

What kind of games do you play? Indoors or out? if indoors many times a rifle mounted NV will not help you, and you should go with the more expensive NVGs instead, outdoors a less expensive rifle mount NV will work.

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Permalink Reply by Colt on September 7, 2008 at 12:34am

ive heard that you atleast ned gen 1 nightvision to really enjoy it... gen 1 isnt really the best thing to go for, but I would never buy an nvg, unless i won the lottery

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Permalink Reply by MAGOLOLO on April 12, 2009 at 6:40am

I DON`T NEED IT...

I CAN SMELL MY ENEMIES IN THE NIGHT... XD!!!

IS A EXPENSIVE GEAR BUT IT JUSTIFY BY ITSELF IN A NIGHT GAME IN A CQB FIELD OR OPEN SPACE LIKE DESERTS

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Permalink Reply by Two-Step on April 20, 2009 at 9:43pm

I recently purchased a x2 magnification, Night Owl NV monocular. I probably wouldn't have, but the price was a measly $65.00, so I figured "what the heck". The pawn shop even offered a 24 hour warranty.

The main problem I encountered was that the NV device lacked a lens cap, so I had to make one. This was easy to do, as I only had to cut an appropriate sized disk and find the right sized hole to put in the middle... now I can get pretty good focus on it.

The in focus visual range isn't all that great. Experimenting with various sized "peep holes" in the cut out disk, I was able to make certain correction, but nothing spectacular. I am sure that having a stronger IR illuminator would make a world if difference. But, as it stands right now, the in focus visual range is pretty short.

Unless one has an IR Illuminator for this device, I don't think that it would serve AS play very well. It is great for close-up viewing, but not for much else.

I have played around with Gen 2 and 3 and can say that they have a definite advantage over Gen1. When I played around with some Gen3 ( military grade NVG), the difference was absolutely amazing... it literally turned night into day and the visual range was amazing... the down side of coarse, is the price.

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Permalink Reply by Aadee on May 13, 2009 at 7:22am

I just bought a couple of weeks a go soviet made export model of the 1PN34 or NSPU nightvision scope. Its Gen1+++. My model was equiped with the SVD crosshair corrector, my friend has one with RPG crosshair corrector. This weekend it will see its first overnight game. I have been testing the thing durin the night and I have to say I'm impressed. The thing is from the 1970-80's and works better then the VV2000 wich is the Nightvision reddot scope that the Finnish Defence forces use and wich I used during my service. On the plusside still mine was optimized to work with 2xAA batteries, so the power source is cheap to optain. Size is big, but it is quite manly. It was a good purchase.

Oh and the price was with all the equipment 110€.

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