Rock Knocker
Active member
I'm thinking about buying some night vision. I'm pretty sure head mounted is the way I want to go.
In Minnesota it's not legal to coyote hunt with night vision or thermal... yet, hopefully it changes. So spotting and hunting won't be it's main role. I want it for hiking around at night, possibly shooting at some rodents or problem animals terrorizing chickens and maybe some fun target shooting at night.
There's night vision and thermal options. I've done a good amount of reading on PVS14's, which gives me questions about filmed or unfilmed, white phosphor, gated etc... Most of what I see are gen 3, I see optics planet has some gen 4 options but I'm not even sure what gen 4 is.
There are also some head mounted thermal options. Are they better? Better for spotting small critters I understand but are there more uses?
I want this to be a spend big and cry once type of purchase, I'm not looking to cut corners or dig through bargain bins. As far as I know there's really no way for me to test drive some of the options and see for myself what I like more.
In Minnesota it's not legal to coyote hunt with night vision or thermal... yet, hopefully it changes. So spotting and hunting won't be it's main role. I want it for hiking around at night, possibly shooting at some rodents or problem animals terrorizing chickens and maybe some fun target shooting at night.
There's night vision and thermal options. I've done a good amount of reading on PVS14's, which gives me questions about filmed or unfilmed, white phosphor, gated etc... Most of what I see are gen 3, I see optics planet has some gen 4 options but I'm not even sure what gen 4 is.
There are also some head mounted thermal options. Are they better? Better for spotting small critters I understand but are there more uses?
I want this to be a spend big and cry once type of purchase, I'm not looking to cut corners or dig through bargain bins. As far as I know there's really no way for me to test drive some of the options and see for myself what I like more.