Night vision hack

aron82 said:
It's not going to compare to that expensive of glass, bit neither is a pvs-14.
Not sure I'd want to have to trust my life to a sightmark, but for varmints at night it definitely works.
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$400.00 Tasco. This thing is a piece of crap going to use it as a hammer.
VS
$400.00 IR scope. Wow, it actually turned on, awsome!
 
Just an update to this thread. We have been losing chickens lately, so I got the rifle set up with the hack NV. We put a game camera on the gate to the coop and some bait meat on the ground in front. The game can notify my wife’s phone when something sets it off. This spot is about 25 yards from our bedroom window. About 11:30 she tells me there’s possum out there.

I look at the screen and can hardly see ****. The picture is really grainy. I see the possum moving and put the red dot on him and bang. He still seems to be moving , but not going anywhere. Maybe he’s eating the bait, so I hit ‘em again. All movement stoped, but I really can’t tell if he just ran off. So I get dressed and take my shotgun out (with a good weapon light). I find him out there dead as a door mail.

I went back to bed. We watch tv till midnight when i usually dose off. My wife doesn’t sleep till like 2:30. About that time, she wakes me up and says the possum must have been playing dead and now he’s up walking around. SOB, I get the rifle up at the window and sure enough, I see him moving. I put two more rounds in him and he stops in his tracks. My wife wants me to go out and blast him with the 12 gage, but my neighbors probably wouldn’t appreciate it. Plus I was sleepy.

This morning I go out there and find two dead possums. I might change my name to “master possum hunter”



In all seriousness, it worked, but I don’t recommend this setup.
 
I dropped the coin and grabbed one of these

ZULUS HD 5-20 Day/Night Digital

The ARKEN ZULUS ZHD520 is a game-changing digital night vision scope, offering 5-20x magnification with a cutting-edge Sony STARVIS 2 chipset.
www.arkenopticsusa.com www.arkenopticsusa.com

Its on backorder, should ship out this week or next. Was just over $700 after the coupon code. Range finder, IR light, Ballistic App, etc. I have some Coyotes waiting to meet this thing when it shows up.
 
We were losing chickens, as well, but INSIDE the barn at night. Turns out that racoons already made a nest inside the barn, which I tried to tell the SO but she wasn't buying any of it. We went around the perimeter of the barn a hundred times looking for possible entry ways and blocking them. We were still losing chickens (10 so far). I bought an IR game cam and hung it by the chickens. Bingo, an entire family of racoons were hiding in the barn. We stopped the carnage with a cage/trap in the coop with a can of Fancy Feast kat food as bait. She wanted to dispatch them, so I handed her my HR .22. I won't be letting her do that again, though, for the sake of the racoons...

My real-world experience with a NV scope is that you kinda need NV binoculars, too.
 
WaterH said:
Just an update to this thread. We have been losing chickens lately, so I got the rifle set up with the hack NV. We put a game camera on the gate to the coop and some bait meat on the ground in front. The game can notify my wife’s phone when something sets it off. This spot is about 25 yards from our bedroom window. About 11:30 she tells me there’s possum out there.

I look at the screen and can hardly see ****. The picture is really grainy. I see the possum moving and put the red dot on him and bang. He still seems to be moving , but not going anywhere. Maybe he’s eating the bait, so I hit ‘em again. All movement stoped, but I really can’t tell if he just ran off. So I get dressed and take my shotgun out (with a good weapon light). I find him out there dead as a door mail.

I went back to bed. We watch tv till midnight when i usually dose off. My wife doesn’t sleep till like 2:30. About that time, she wakes me up and says the possum must have been playing dead and now he’s up walking around. SOB, I get the rifle up at the window and sure enough, I see him moving. I put two more rounds in him and he stops in his tracks. My wife wants me to go out and blast him with the 12 gage, but my neighbors probably wouldn’t appreciate it. Plus I was sleepy.

This morning I go out there and find two dead possums. I might change my name to “master possum hunter”



In all seriousness, it worked, but I don’t recommend this setup.
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Mount ir floodlight somewhere and point it over there.
It will make it a million times better, probably.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Because the scope wouldn't do for some reason?

Or just because Hunter Ed told you not to do that? :laughing:
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Try shouldering that rifle for more than a few minutes while stalking hogs. Trying looking at where you're trying to walk when one eye is dilated and the other not from scanning with only that scope. Try carrying that heavy SOB all the time instead of just slinging it over your shoulder. Hunters ed got nothing to do with this...:lmao:
 
FrankenToy said:
Try shouldering that rifle for more than a few minutes while stalking hogs. Trying looking at where you're trying to walk when one eye is dilated and the other not from scanning with only that scope. Try carrying that heavy SOB all the time instead of just slinging it over your shoulder. Hunters ed got nothing to do with this...:lmao:
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That makes sense. Seems like it'd work fine for more limited and stationary use.
 
On the few occasions that I have to hunt hogs in TX, I have to stalk them. The ranch I am graciously allowed to hunt is 1500 acres of mesquite, and cactus. I'm not down there enough to establish a stationary position. The hogs are very "nomadic" as it is. Gotta go to where they are, wherever that may be.
 
FrankenToy said:
On the few occasions that I have to hunt hogs in TX, I have to stalk them. The ranch I am graciously allowed to hunt is 1500 acres of mesquite, and cactus. I'm not down there enough to establish a stationary position. The hogs are very "nomadic" as it is. Gotta go to where they are, wherever that may be.
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So what you're telling me is that just a scope might work for some situations, but your personal preferred use you'd want NV binoculars too?
 
posford said:
So what you're telling me is that just a scope might work for some situations, but your personal preferred use you'd want NV binoculars too?
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Unless my rifle is supported, from a bench or rest, and trained on a very small and specific area, l won't go out again without binoculars. The field of view of a NV scope is too limited, too awkward and too heavy to use as a scouting optic for me. NV binoculars are a force multiplier. YMMV.
 
FrankenToy said:
Unless my rifle is supported, from a bench or rest, and trained on a very small and specific area, l won't go out again without binoculars. The field of view of a NV scope is too limited, too awkward and too heavy to use as a scouting optic for me. NV binoculars are a force multiplier. YMMV.
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I agree with this 100%.
 
WaterH said:
SOB, I get the rifle up at the window and sure enough, I see him moving. I put two more rounds in him and he stops in his tracks. My wife wants me to go out and blast him with the 12 gage, but my neighbors probably wouldn’t appreciate it.
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LOL...got sick of the coons eating out of my bird feeders running off after shooting them with a .22. So I figured I'd try my son's .410. Did that twice. Dang is that thing loud at oh dark thirty.

Few months later talking to some "neighbors" that live over a half mile away...they asked if it was me shooting during the night. Whoops

I explained it to them and they laughed.

Moved up to Stingers for my .22. Coons are less resistant to those.
 
JD Mark said:
LOL...got sick of the coons eating out of my bird feeders running off after shooting them with a .22. So I figured I'd try my son's .410. Did that twice. Dang is that thing loud at oh dark thirty.

Few months later talking to some "neighbors" that live over a half mile away...they asked if it was me shooting during the night. Whoops

I explained it to them and they laughed.

Moved up to Stingers for my .22. Coons are less resistant to those.
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This rifle is 9 mm pistol round. I don’t know if you’ve ever shot a one, but they are real quiet. It’s amazing they make so much noise in a pistol. I don’t ware ear protection. Of course, I’m half deaf already.
 
JD Mark said:
LOL...got sick of the coons eating out of my bird feeders running off after shooting them with a .22. So I figured I'd try my son's .410. Did that twice. Dang is that thing loud at oh dark thirty.

Few months later talking to some "neighbors" that live over a half mile away...they asked if it was me shooting during the night. Whoops

I explained it to them and they laughed.

Moved up to Stingers for my .22. Coons are less resistant to those.
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They ran off because you are a ****ty shot. Stingers are way overkill and louder than need be for coons. I just dosed an annoying raccoon last week with Aguila subsonic moving at around 800 fps. One shot between the eyes from about 12 yards wadded him up good.
 
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Aisin said:
They ran off because you are a ****ty shot. Stingers are way overkill and louder than need be for coons. I just dosed an annoying raccoon last week with Aguila subsonic moving at around 800 fps. One shot between the eyes from about 12 yards wadded him up good.
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K..nevermind the blood trail. And I generally have to shoot them in the ass as they are running away.
 
WaterH said:
If we’re talking about a deer, I agree. If we’re talking about something killing my chickens, I take any shot I can get.
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Even though they are pests they still deserve to die ethically. Doesn’t matter if it’s a cat or a deer.
 
Aisin said:
Even though they are pests they still deserve to die ethically. Doesn’t matter if it’s a cat or a deer.
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When I run into a mountain lion, do I deserve to die ethically? That mountain loin doesn’t care. (And shouldn’t) if I’m hunting for sport, I agree. Even that’s doing them (all animals) a favor that they don’t do for us.
 
Lion ins't gonna attack you for fun, so yes as much as they can. It will grab your throat and suffocate you as quickly as possible. Not eat a chunk out of your leg and come back in a day to see if your dead.

And a wounded animal is just gonna create more problem for you until it is dead.
 
This has gotten entertaining :laughing:

The Aguila SSS rounds kill stuff like a hammer. I’ve shot armadillos and possums in the head multiple times with stingers, etc and had them just run around in circles.

I’m in the middle on the “only take perfect shots on varmints” thing. Yes, you want the animal to die as ethically as possible. You don’t just shoot it in the guts and leave it there flopping around or let it run off because it will die eventually. Not really going to wait for the low probability chance of the stars aligning perfectly when it’s dark out, you’re moving, it’s moving, and you’ve got a 3 second window before it’s out of sight. Get a round in it and follow it up as quickly as you can.
 
Every head shot I've taken with a Stinger has resulted in instant death...after some flopping around.

But yeah, ohdarkthirty, rolling out of bed, have a couple seconds between opening the door and the little bastard disappearing off my deck I'm taking whatever shot I can that isn't going to hit the house. If I can get a follow-up shot or two in, great but that doesn't always happen.

I'll give the Aguilas a try.

I'm at 7 in the leg catch traps, not including the one that left its foot. None of those have survived.
 
I need one of y'all to guinea pig one of these cheap options.

There's a few versions of the Triton StarStrike, I like this compact one though:
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Found a few versions of these on eBay then searched the brand on Amazon. I've spent $100 on dumber stuff.
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