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Been playing around with the JDX 990 and come up with a nifty cradle for attaching it to the NS 200. I made it out of 2mm acrylic sheet, A5 in size, and with a little handy-work and some crafty bending using some heat from the edge of an iron, I came up with this;

Hi guys, I bought an NS200 about a month ago and would like to share my findings with you so far! First of all, I have been involved in keepering (but not now) and shooting most of my life, so know my way round guns and scopes, do a lot of research, then purchase the right gun for the job. The rifles I use are a Sako .223 with Nightforce NSX 5.5-22x50, a modified Anschutz 1416D .22 with a Hawke Sport HD 4-12x50 and a Falcon FN12 .177 also with a Hawke Sport HD but a 3-9x40. I have had both the Sako and Anschutz for over 24 years, the Falcon for around 12! I had a great chat with Dave of Nitesite at the Midland fair and even got to try it out in their demo tunnel, also looked at the Laser Genetics ND3, but I just couldn't imagine it being usable past 100 yards! I was initially concerned with fitting the Nitesite to the Nightforce, the lens coatings do affect the IR capability of the camera a bit, but it is still usable. The large scope sleeve was a very tight fit and because the NSX has a longer than usual eye relief, it was a bit wobbly too. Fixing this was quite simple in the end, I spotted in B&Q the other day a black 40mm PP Coupler and a 35mm reducer, take the O ring and retainer off one end of the coupler, get some sandpaper or a sharp knife and ease the inside edge slightly and slip it onto the eyepiece, it's a tight fit but it doesn't budge once on! Slide the reducer onto the camera and slip that into the coupler to the desired distance, got to be cheaper than the DSA? As others have also found here, I do get some in scope glare at certain magnifications, I have a slimline PES moderator with a neoprene cover, and found the NSX a lot better with a 3" sunshade fitted, and keeping the mag down to around 10x, plus a little bit of insulation tape covering the bottom quarter of the objective (just like Grandalf has done) no idea why this works, but it does! So far this combo has shot at 14 fox between 40 and 180 yards......and all accounted for! LCD screen glare was a problem, but Nitesite have kindly sent me some filters which really help, being seen by your quarry was never really an issue (had one fox almost run into my legs after a short mouse squeak!) but the eyestrain was a bit much to bare, as whenever you switched the thing on and off you lost your night vision! I should explain that I also use another great bit of kit, and one that I have seen few others using, and that is the brilliant little Olight M40 Crimson torch, 150mm of pure dynamite for foxing. It runs off 2 CR123A batteries and emits a dull red beam that visibly only goes out about 100 yards and doesn't spook your quarry, but it will pick up fox eye-shine out to 350+. I have walked up to rabbits, deer, Badgers and Tawny's with the Olight shining right at them (admittedly from downwind) and they took no notice! Obviously the fox or any other quarry has to looking in roughly your direction, but there is no mistake when a fox looks at you, their eyes are far brighter than anything else out there! I was out on my friends farm in Gloucestershire the other week, and I scanned a large grass field with a large herd of sheep in it with the Olight, from the hundred or so eyes that shone back at me, I could easily make out 2 sets that were foxes out at around 270 yards. Switching the Olight off and moving into a better and closer position, I set up a pad on the ground to sit on and got the rifle set up on the long bipod, turned on the Nitesite and did a quick scan, they were still there and oblivious to me being there. The Vixen moved up near the wood so I took her at 180, while the dog meandered off to the left, looking not bothered in the slightest, eventually giving me a broadside at 170. I wouldn't say that their bodies stood out, especially against the long grass, but there was enough contrast to make each shot with the brilliant NP-2DD reticle illuminated Fitting the Nitesite to other rifles/scopes has been quite a challenge, couldn't get a good focus from the Hawke 4-12x at 10-75 yard rats, but it didn't stop me from shooting a dozen, and the Hawke 3-9x fairs a little better, but I can see myself changing both for 2 side focus models. I have a friend who was interested in the NS200 for his 3 rifles, but we couldn't fit it on any of them successfully, a Leopold, a Schmidt & Bender and a Z6i Swarovski. I wont go into why right now, still a work on it! We did shoot some rats with his rimfire and Leopold, shooting out his truck passenger window, I held the forend and camera to the scope, while he steadied the stock and pulled the trigger, quite a fiasco really, but 17 rats for 19 shots between 6 and 75 yards wasn't a bad go? The best picture I've seen so far is through a Nikko Stirling Mountmaster 4-12x50 mounted on my dads BSA R10, unfortunately it has an AO Parallax adjuster, and I'm looking for something with a side knob adjuster, preferably in the 4-16x50 range and not too expensive anyone have any recommendations that work well down to close ranges and afar with the Nitesite, please let me know? I have purchased a JDX 990 recorder and a 12v CCTV rechargeable battery, which seem to work but not used in anger yet, will be interesting to see how that goes? Have also been looking into some way of streaming the video straight to my android smartphone, but coming up a blank! :( Anyway, that's my first month with the Nitesite, and I haven't had so much fun in years, it truly brings another dimension to night shooting and Wiley old fox had better invest in some radar! Thanks for reading and hope there is something of interest for you, it is a great piece of kit for the price and still a work in progress, and that's half the fun! I wish Dave and Jake all the best, and hope they take note of all this user info in forums like this, and maybe feed it into the Mk2?