NIght Vision adapters for day scopes
Can anybody provide me with positive or negative info on the Yukon NVMT Night Adapter for a Optical Riflescope? It’s a Generation 1 night vision adapter that you can place on an existing day scope. I’m interested in using NV on my new .25 Condor and although it would be nice to save a few bucks, I’d like to make sure I’m not making a mistake.
I like the $400 price range compared to spending two thousand plus for gen 2 technology. But at what cost in quality? I hate cutting corners and did not do so when building my.25 and scope. But when is enough enough?
I’d appreciate any other NV suggestions as well
Thanks
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cheap is good as long as it works and is dependable, durable!
Why thank you Walt! I’ve always prided myself in being a “cheapo” kind of dude! In this particular case, I feel I have dropped well below even my own low standards.
With luck I will able to see 100′ and make a clean kill shot through the center of the pupil, directly into the brain. Short of that, if I can just make out an outline of an image, I will run up and stomp the shit out of it, then club it to death with my rifle butt.
While the first method is a more humane manner to take the life of a wild beast, the other offers excellent cardio-vascular exercise, muscular toning, and overall stress relief!
So, either way I’m good to go!
It’s been said “You get what you pay for!” I say “You pay for what you get!” I’m not sure what I said means. I’m beginning to regret even bringing it up. While I do find it interesting that each saying has the exact same words, beyond that, I am at a loss at why I said it.
Kindly ‘Ol Uncle Hoot 😯
Hoot, that Yukon looks like it’s just a cheapo copy of an AB Nightvision unit. I’ve owned several of Adam’s units in the past, very good stuff. abnightvision.com
As an option you can have it made with the screw in front objective, they use old c mount lenses which are cheap and plentiful on ebay. 25mm gives you 1x perspective; 50mm gives you 2x perspective, etc. I had one unit with a 700mm zoom lens on it which was, well, a real hoot. Here are some pics:
and can go from this:
to this:
http://www.mscelectronics.com/nightvision.htm
The IR filters are the cheap way to go. Can’t be beat, for the money. If you want to get into the next level, usually you can go much longer range with an IR laser. These have always been expensive, and now you can’t buy them from US makers due to DOD rules. However, if you know how to use a soldering iron, you can make one yourself….
Note that this gives you the equivalent of something like a Ground Commanders Pointer, very very powerful pointer. It will also burn the image tube of a NV device so you have to watch reflections and have a LIF on your NV device as a precaution. For long range illumination you will have to find a lens that you can put over the front to attenuate the coherent beam. This unit also has enough power to permanently blind you if you look into it.
walt
Yukon 2 X 4 monocular 172.99 at:
Yukon mount w/Ir flashlight now $79.99 free shipping at:
I picked one up. Everything was $253.00 shipped. I’ll try anything at that price.
Not a long range hunter/killer setup, but fine for what I do at 50 yards or less. As always, I think the key is in the supplemental IR light.
I’m trying to locate a large diameter IR Pass-through filter Akula mentioned. No luck yet.
Hoot 😯
ditto. I’ve never bought NV online without a pic from the seller of the actual image through that tube that I’m buying. Ask to have him aim it at a blank wall so all you see are the spots. Then ask for several pics outside at night so you can see resolution and detail and look for other problems.
Or, just order the Pinnacle tube. Hope your bank account is in good health, though.
aloha,
walt
+1
Your the best source of info’ I have!
Also bear in mind… I’m just a guy who likes using NV and not the be all and end call when it comes to info so anything I say may be B.S 😀
If I buy two Grade B’s or A’s then I do not expect to be able to tell the difference. I bought the ATN’s from a regular store who didn’t sort so I likely got two different grade’s or they both got the same grade because while one had a better resolution, it had some spots whereas the other had no marks at all. They were also only $1000 each…. so I wasnt going to complain.
However…. neither was a “baddun” and the difference was very small and I was being pretty thorough in checking them, using a test chart etc (I wanted to keep the best and ebay the other one). I couldn’t tell the difference if I just grabbed one of the shelf other than the spot’s, only through direct comparison.
The main point I was trying to convey is that it really shouldn’t be a case of pot luck… and to explain what hand picking meant.
Thats why you often see specifications encompassing a range like 20-25 or 64+ rather than a definite number.
I thought you said you could see a difference between the same models. Ergo you could buy one and it be not as good as the next one??
Thanks for the insight YN.
I shouldn’t have made that comment as I’m truly a novice, and it’s always dangerous to make comments based on “he said, she said” info… I’ll edit that comment…
Not really…
My Gen 3 is 72lpm… there were no doubt other’s made alongside it that will be 74 and some 68… I cannot tell the difference. They will get graded based on their preformance. The difference within a grade is marginal so you should get what you order unless there is outright lying going on and someone sells you a Gen 3 Alpha Select when its really a B…
Why would the guy say he would handpick one with clear lenses ? 😕
Does this mean that some of them are not clear?? 😯
Its not the lenses, its the Intensifier tube. Even tubes off the same production line will be better than other’s. One might have a higher resoltion, or fewer black spot’s or better gain than another that was made the same way.
I had two ATN patriot’s at the same time, one had a black spot but awesome picture, other one had a clean display (no spots) but the picture was noticably poorer.
Thats why you often see specifications encompassing a range like 20-25 or 64+ rather than a definite number.
That sucks. So its pot luck as to whether you get a goddun or not… 😕
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Nothing wrong with cheap. Free is better yet. If it works, I’m the last guy to complain. I think YN had posted some 1st gen units that were really cheap on ebay a few months back. These were for tubes only, you had to put an objective and ocular lenses onto them to get them to work… but they were tripled, 3 of the 1st gen units magnifying each other. Result was impressive, and for less than $100, although bulky.
If your unit uses the screw in C mount lenses, I may have one or two lying around. Don’t remember. If you’d like to try different magnifications… let me know off list if you want me to look. When looking for spare lenses, fujinon is the one to look for, best quality.
walt