kennett Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Need to pick your collective brains, mate wants to chop in his nightforce scope as the crosshair is too fine for lamping and use the cash to buy a decent nightvison scope for under a £1000. What does everyone recommend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckyshot Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 More info required, what gun will it be going on dedicated or add on tubed or digital new or second hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swampyis1968 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 build your own i had a go spot on and im not that clever join nvuk on facebook they will help you out and their are some for sale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted August 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Going on a 243, for medium ( upto 230ish yard) foxing. So dedicated is fine, as we have other rifles for other occasions. Not too sure on the tubed or digital, what's the pro's and cons? Either new or secondhand. We have built our own in the past, and it was really good but since he has the cash, and wants to make it a dedicated fox gun we are happy for someone else to do the work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetter Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Tubed are image intensifying scopes. Better generation ones i.e generation 3 and upper end generation 2 provide good image quality but the best stuff can be expensive >3K+ and also it can be damaged by excess light i.e. daylight and strong artificial stuff. Digital is basically a digital night vision camera housed either in an add on or a dedicated scope these can be used day and night (handy if you want to zero) and the better end stuff gives all but the most expensive tubed night vision a run for its money. Currently for dedicated digital the king of the hill is the drone pro which is a 10x mag scope. They run to about £1600 new and you don't see many up for sale second hand as most people don't let them go. As a slightly cheaper option you can look at the Yukon photon XT 6.5 which is getting some good reviews or some of the pulsar stuff such as the N750. In fact pulsar now do one with a built in rangefinder which looks a bit nifty but they are quite new so scoring one of these second hand could be tough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted August 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Thanks for the advice, so drone pro if he can afford/find one, how about the pulsar 750, used the 550 in the past but it seemed to have loads of junk that we never needed and was poor without additional I/r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetter Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Havent used a 750 so maybe someone else can comment. But to be fair most stuff needs additional IR to give decent images. Although T50 IR torches are about £50-60 so no real cost to add now to units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Havent used a 750 so maybe someone else can comment. But to be fair most stuff needs additional IR to give decent images. Although T50 IR torches are about £50-60 so no real cost to add now to units. The T20 IR is good too, and around the £30 mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted August 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 I think he has a t50 from the one we built, so got that covered but thanks for the advice :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshMike Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 N750A is a pretty good piece of kit in my opinion but as mentioned needs a decent external IR. I have a nightmaster 800 fitted and you can easily identify quarry out to 350-400 yards under the right conditions with 300 yard shots achievable. The furthest I have taken a fox with it is around the 260 yard mark. I have seldom needed to take shots much over 150 yards. Mine is fitted to a Howa 1500 in .243. I couldnt comment on the drone pro though as I havent used one myself.. I would be happy to buy another N750A again though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted August 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 Thanks all, he picked up a 750 from fleabay for £730, only been used from the blokes back garden for watching wildlife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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