KUDOS TO TACTICAL NIGHT VISION COMPANY


To mount a 3X Magnifier case, get some parachute nylon and tie it onto the helmet exactly square in the middle so it does not offset your helmet weight distribution to the side any, you want it to act as a counterweight directly to the PVS-14 in the front. Put a patch of Velcro on the bottom to keep it from moving. Also, I attached a battery bag with two charged 18650s, six CR123s, and 10 AAs too so I will never be without power all night long....

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Also, another nice handy addition is an velcroed on tiny Photon Micro Infrared 11mW IR flashlight that is super powerful for lighting up a good sized area when ya need it, it is way more powerful than it looks and can have a covert cover too.

Used on NASA Shuttle missions, US Secret-Service, US Armed Services & US Special-Forces.

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Loaded up 50 rounds of Barnes .224 70 grain TSX yesterday afternoon and went out with the A-Alpha Helmet, PVS-14, DBAL-I2 last night.

No sooner did I get 100 yards out in the woods that a whole pack of coyotes went off howling and yipping at me about 50 yards deep in the woods to my right.

Walked further down the forest road jeep trail and three bright eyes came running down the middle of the road right at me.

I could easily see their eyes with the PVS-14 over my non-dominate eye and the 850nm IR flashlight beaming from the front rail.

Turned on the DBAL-I2 IR laser and put it on the rear coyotes glowing retinas and pulled the trigger at about 75 yards.

Only got one as the others scattered into the deep brush, and I'll be dogged as it turned out to be a nice 35 pound BLACK female!
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Had a great time and the NV gear worked fantastic!
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We will be hammering them in the future!

Enjoy the pics!

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Originally Posted By: pmackNice coyote and great pics. You sure have taken night hunting to the next level.

Thanks pmack, it was difficult making the proper decisions on what expensive gear to invest in as I had no understanding of any night vision gear when I started investigating it.

It took me most of the last year to figure out most of what it was that I needed to accomplish the things I wanted to be able to do.

I'll have to admit it opens up an entire new arena of hunting experiences and basically doubles the time that you can hunt too, all GOOD!
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Shooting a black yote in the pitch dark with only an invisible laser while watching it all go down with the ITT PVS-14 Night Enforcer was certainly an experience that of which I have never seen before and it worked just AWESOME!
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I have to give credit to Victor and Teddy at Tactical Night Vision Company (TNVC) who is a sponsor of this site for helping me to make the right decisions and allowing me to get setup for NV gear with confidence, they were a big learning experience and a BIG HELP!
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So, I went out to check my backyard game cam today after I woke up from last nights hunt and found this interesting photo of a poor wounded deer being helped along by another deer as she carried him over to an attentive Sandhill Crane that was must have been trained in deer medicine.....simply amazing that this Crane was able to help the poor deer out!
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Great job on the pics.gives me a lot of ideas for my next seasons hands free shotgun set up and my scanning for the AR-15.
Great job on that black coyote!!! Thats awesome,luck of the draw!!!!!I will be picking your brain over the next few months.
Your last post made me almost whizz my pants!!!!



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Wow, the State park manager called us up today to ask if we could move one of our hog traps into a new area.

The park has been removing 18 wild Bison because they kept breaking out of the fencing and getting onto adjacent private properties wrecking havoc.

The helicopter pilot who was ferrying out the tranquilized Bison said that he "incidentally" counted over 350 hogs just this weekend!
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I am going to have to get a case of ammo, don't think I can reload that much on my single stage RCBS press!
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Originally Posted By: the impactzoneyou need a extra gun? I may have some time off and have my own NV + thermal LOL

Yah,Pup
Dont be a Hog,Hawg!!!
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The Good Guys @ TNVC sent me their nice LAS/TAC 2 pistol laser to add to my NV gear.

I installed it on one my carbines as an adjunct to my DBAL-I2 and took it out for some night NV photos.

Here it is mounted on my rifle rail:

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It is super light weight and takes two CR-123 lithium-ion batteries. It has adjustable windage and elevation screws.

I took some NV photos of it before I dialed it in tonight and it has considerably less halo bloom than the DBAL-I2 0.7mW IR does.

Here it is by itself @ 175 yards:

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Here it is with the DBAL-I2 at 30 yards, there is too much bloom to differentiate them apart but they are about a foot apart:

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Here they both are at 175 yards, the DBAL is on top:

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Here they both are at 175 yards with a 500mW IR Illuminator flashlight shining from the other side of my rail:

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It is very visible out past 250 yards and blooms way less than the more powerful civilian legal 0.7mW IR without concurrent IR Illumination, it puts out a nice precise dot.

I will try it out on some hogs and coyotes this weekend and post some more pics of it in action....
 
I got this nice EagleTac M3C4 flashlight with the triple OSRAM 850nm IR LEDs that puts out 3,400mW on Low and 10,200mW on High.

This will easily light up a quarter mile long pathway on a moonless night!

It will be set it up on a camera tripod and point it down the roadway, I'll take some pics with the NV gear and maybe some videos of a sounder group getting whacked too.

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It works very good as a road beacon to keep an entire road lite up, here are some pics from our cattle pasture during the day & night with the NV with and without IR through ITT Pinnacle PVS-14 Night Enforcer:

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Jumped another sounder group last night and had a great time but we were only able to find this one little piggy in the swamp.

Definitely going to enjoy the FLIR PS 32 thermal for recovering hogs in the middle of the night in the thick brush and swamps!

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Originally Posted By: SkyPupJumped another sounder group last night and had a great time but we were only able to find this one little piggy in the swamp.

Definitely going to enjoy the FLIR PS 32 thermal for recovering hogs in the middle of the night in the thick brush and swamps!

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The story behind this piglet is pretty good.

My friend here, I loaned one of my PVS-14s to and invited him out on the hunt. He had never shot a pig or anything else besides paper with his SIG 556 with Eotech NV sight on it.

We jumped a sounder group again and put him onto them and stood behind him to watch him and back him up with my IR Laser.

Two big hogs are in the brush to the right of us about 40 yards and he asks me "Should I shoot them?", I'm like what are you waiting for????

So he shoots a large black hog through the shoulder, the hog jumps up and does a 180 degree turn when it lands back down and squeals real loud and takes off into the brush. He rushes off after it and I follow. After 20 minutes of scouting around we could not find the big hog in the brush, however right where he shot the big hog, I find this little piglet.

When he gets back he asks where did I get the piglet as he did not hear another shot, I tell him the bullet went through his big hog and hit the piglet in the head going through its head too!!!
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So, no one even saw this piglet until I picked it up. So it is his first confirmed kill.

Should have the FLIR PS 32 thermal this week so that won't happen again hopefully....
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Vic, does that FLIR T50 Clip On work with Eotech as well as ACOG?

Also, would it work behind a Leopold VX-R 1-4X Pig Plex scope on low rings?

I may want to get one of these if I can use it on both my current rifle setups.
 
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