If your new to night vision scopes or find it challenging to see a target at night, this is what I do.
For a digital scope, in my case the Photon XT 4.6, I put a cross in reflective tape on a target. The illuminator or even your headlights really lights it up at 100 yards. I use 1" reflective tape that can be found in the bicycle department of most department stores. Since most NV scopes have 1 moa clicks, 1" is fine for me. But it can be trimmed down. I assume this would work for any scope with an illuminator.
For thermal, I use a hand warmer as a target with my 38A. I originally put a hole in a target and put the hand warmer behind it. It warmed the entire target giving a warm circle to target, which was kind of cool and worked great. But it was unnecessary. Just stapling a hand warmer on a piece of white background to show your bullet holes works fine.
Anyway, that's what works for me. In my case, I also put two hand warmers on a board stapled the distance from a coyotes shoulder to his feet at 100 yards and 200 yards. I then counted the marks on my crosshairs from the center of the crosshairs (top handwarmer) both at 1.5x and 6x to the bottom handwarmer. This serves as a rangefinder. This was a result of a little oops the other night with my first outing with the thermal. I shot at a coyote, forgetting I was full zoom, and I think he was too far away. He was definitely in range, but I shot center crosshair and I think I needed some hold over. Oh well, lesson learned. I should have tried to bring him in closer. Or, there was another about 800 yards behind him hard charging and coming in. Maybe wait for that one.
On the bright side, my buddy didn't see him and when I shot it scared the crap out of him. Man in orbit!
Mike
For a digital scope, in my case the Photon XT 4.6, I put a cross in reflective tape on a target. The illuminator or even your headlights really lights it up at 100 yards. I use 1" reflective tape that can be found in the bicycle department of most department stores. Since most NV scopes have 1 moa clicks, 1" is fine for me. But it can be trimmed down. I assume this would work for any scope with an illuminator.
For thermal, I use a hand warmer as a target with my 38A. I originally put a hole in a target and put the hand warmer behind it. It warmed the entire target giving a warm circle to target, which was kind of cool and worked great. But it was unnecessary. Just stapling a hand warmer on a piece of white background to show your bullet holes works fine.
Anyway, that's what works for me. In my case, I also put two hand warmers on a board stapled the distance from a coyotes shoulder to his feet at 100 yards and 200 yards. I then counted the marks on my crosshairs from the center of the crosshairs (top handwarmer) both at 1.5x and 6x to the bottom handwarmer. This serves as a rangefinder. This was a result of a little oops the other night with my first outing with the thermal. I shot at a coyote, forgetting I was full zoom, and I think he was too far away. He was definitely in range, but I shot center crosshair and I think I needed some hold over. Oh well, lesson learned. I should have tried to bring him in closer. Or, there was another about 800 yards behind him hard charging and coming in. Maybe wait for that one.
On the bright side, my buddy didn't see him and when I shot it scared the crap out of him. Man in orbit!
Mike
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