Digital night vision?

Originally Posted By: YellowhammerI took a chance and bought one. It arrived yesterday and I got batteries for it today. I took it out a few minutes ago to the check the pasture for hogs. About as bright a moon tonight as you will ever get.

Unless I am doing something wrong, I am pretty disappointed in it. I can do just about as good with regular old binoculars.

There are front and rear focus adjustments. You need to focus each eye individually. The IR emitter has a focus also. There are pinholes in the front lens cover for day use......make sure you don't forget to remove the lens caps for night use since you can see thru them it's easy to forget.

 
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I tried focusing both the front and back with the IR on and off. I can see, but barely enough to even tell how to set the focus.

Sure doesn't look like the youtube videos I saw.

 
Originally Posted By: YellowhammerI tried focusing both the front and back with the IR on and off. I can see, but barely enough to even tell how to set the focus.

Sure doesn't look like the youtube videos I saw.



They're using one h*ll of a nice external IR flashlight in that video. The factory IR on the one I returned only worked to about 60 yards if that.
 

The recorded video is definitely higher quality than what you see in the reticle. I can easily see hogs at my feeder or in the wheat field at ranges of 200 yards using the onboard IR.
 
Originally Posted By: YellowhammerI tried focusing both the front and back with the IR on and off. I can see, but barely enough to even tell how to set the focus.

Sure doesn't look like the youtube videos I saw.



Yellowhammer...maybe a bad unit or just not what you expected. I am seeing new cheap FLIR unit out but I know absolutely nothing about it except it looks to be close in price. It might be okay for detection.

http://www.flir.com/hunting-outdoor/display/?id=72845
 
I have to ask the stupid question. Did you take the cap off for night time use? While the FOV on my 6x is not great for scanning it has an exceptional image both day and night. If Bushnell would make a scope like this it would be an immediate success.
 
I know this has been discussed, but if you go digital go with whatever you can afford + the best external IR flashlight you can buy. Most internal or stock IR lights are horrible and just eat up your batteries.
 
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