Dustin, I have no idea at the moment about how the scope might perform in fog. I guess time will tell.
Today I received the Warne Quick Detah Medium Rings and got the scope mounted to my CZ 527, .17 Remington. Initially I was afraid the medium rings would not work, but they did, but just barely. The other issue I was concerned about was pertaining to bolt clearance since the CZs have a rather high bolt. The bolt when opened does not touch the ocular of the scope, but if I push it up it does. It will work with this scope. For AR users, I'm not sure if the medium rings will work or not.
The best measurement I could do indicates the scope sits approximately 2" above bore center to center of scope lens. This is far better than my old Gen 1 scope that was approximately 3.5" high.
Here are some photos to show the clearance of the medium rings, Photon and the CZ. As you can see, there was just barely enough clearance.
I then removed the bellows eye piece from the scope. I like it much better without the bellows (at the moment anyway).
Mounted on the rifle, the bellows did cause a bit of discomfort with my prescription glasses, but with the bellows removed
all is good. Not sure if much light will blow back into my face at night or not. If you do remove the bellows, you will find the
threads are very fine, and replacing the bellows requires some caution so as to not strip them.
One other thing I did today was put a small filter over the inside of the lens cap to see if it would cut down
on the amount daytime light. It seems to have helped, but I will do a comparison later and video.
The small square filter is one that came with the bullet camera I use for my home-made unit. The filter was
installed by the manufacturer to cut down on IR light, something we don't want when using night vision.
At my request, the vendor I purchased the camera from removed the filter for me and included it in the package.
I just thought I would try it to see if it helps. I think it does but I didn't have a back and forth assessment to compare.
I taped the filter to the inside of the lens cap.