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    From Frank@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 18 19:22:28 2016
    Son just gave me a night vision monocular as a late Christmas gift as it
    was hung up in shipping.

    So now I've got a 1st generation night vision monocular and wonder if
    others have found them useful in deer hunting. I read that gen 1 is
    nowhere near as good as gen's 2 and 3.

    I assume it might be useful in the morning to see what is moving around
    in the dark before you can shoot.

    Wonder if it is useful blood trailing in the dark or seeing deer coming
    out just prior to the end of shooting time?

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  • From Murff@21:1/5 to Frank on Tue Jan 19 19:10:24 2016
    On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:22:28 -0500, Frank wrote:

    Son just gave me a night vision monocular as a late Christmas gift as it
    was hung up in shipping.

    ...

    Wonder if it is useful blood trailing in the dark or seeing deer coming
    out just prior to the end of shooting time?

    Not deer - apart from anything else the law here makes it illegal to hunt
    deer "after the hours of darkness", without a special permit. An anti-
    poaching measure. Also it is a photomultiplier - whilst it is sensitive
    in the IR it isn't a thermal imager: the ranges at which deer would be
    observed are typically too great for a handheld (I've an old Yukon one)
    to be much use.

    It is useful for shorter-range quarry like rabbit or hare.

    Also, whilst top-end photomultipliers are very good, they're also very
    pricey. In terms of price/performance, CCD-based solutions perform pretty
    well. I use a Yukon Photon riflescope - again on rabbit and hare (it is
    on a .22LR carbine) though I'm aware that some have had success with
    them, on fox.

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  • From Frank@21:1/5 to Murff on Wed Jan 20 08:41:27 2016
    On 1/19/2016 2:10 PM, Murff wrote:
    On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:22:28 -0500, Frank wrote:

    Son just gave me a night vision monocular as a late Christmas gift as it
    was hung up in shipping.

    ...

    Wonder if it is useful blood trailing in the dark or seeing deer coming
    out just prior to the end of shooting time?

    Not deer - apart from anything else the law here makes it illegal to hunt deer "after the hours of darkness", without a special permit. An anti- poaching measure. Also it is a photomultiplier - whilst it is sensitive
    in the IR it isn't a thermal imager: the ranges at which deer would be observed are typically too great for a handheld (I've an old Yukon one)
    to be much use.

    It is useful for shorter-range quarry like rabbit or hare.

    Also, whilst top-end photomultipliers are very good, they're also very pricey. In terms of price/performance, CCD-based solutions perform pretty well. I use a Yukon Photon riflescope - again on rabbit and hare (it is
    on a .22LR carbine) though I'm aware that some have had success with
    them, on fox.


    I don't intend to shoot off hours and usually leave 10 minutes before
    the end of shooting time.

    But very often, I've shot a deer near the end of shooting time and had
    to blood trail in the dark. Wonder if monocular would be useful in
    looking for shot deer.

    Also I might linger to the end of shooting time if a deer is coming in.
    Older with early AMD am having shadow in dominant right eye and wonder
    if monocular would help.

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  • From Frank@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Feb 1 09:03:37 2016
    On 1/31/2016 9:38 AM, [email protected] wrote:
    I got mine from ATN ( http://www.atncorp.com/night-vision-monoculars , based on digital technology, of course ) and yep, it�s a very helpful device. I checked it at the latest bear hunt, and can�t wait next legal deer hunt in March to try it out again.


    Looks like a higher generation unit. Hear they are far superior but I
    have no way to compare for myself.

    Season is over so I will have to wait until next year to field test mine.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 31 06:38:47 2016
    I got mine from ATN ( http://www.atncorp.com/night-vision-monoculars , based on digital technology, of course ) and yep, it�s a very helpful device. I checked it at the latest bear hunt, and can�t wait next legal deer hunt in March to try it out again.

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