tuning your POI on a night vision scope
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 10:55 pm
This is one for the dedicated night vision scope users, particualy the photon type and others.
One of the problems i encounter is getting the zero right as the mag is not the best and unless i have someone with me as a spotter then it's up and down checking the point of impact, and ajusting the scope to get it right , which can take a lot of time.
But a thought came into my head the other evening (yes i do get them every now and again), whilst checking to see in the post was up outside the garage i noticed how the reflective tape was illuminated in the street lights, and as i had some left i thought how traffic cones on one of my perm's light up well could i use the tape as a target marker. Not wanting to put a full strip on a board i fed a bit through the paper punch and stuck the little self adhesive discs to a board and tried them out, and they worked.
Not only could i see the target at my 36 yard range on low IR, i knew if i was spot on i would destroy the little discs even with a .177 pellet thus showing me i was on target, i could also stick them onto spinners. I also tried the target boards out past 60 yards and had no problem seeing them, ok hitting them was a different matter. I have some photos and a couple of short video clips through the photon but will have to post them later as my card reader has broken and a new one has only just been ordered.
As for the reflective tape i bought mine from my local cycle shop a few years ago in red,amber and white , and all three light up well.
daz
One of the problems i encounter is getting the zero right as the mag is not the best and unless i have someone with me as a spotter then it's up and down checking the point of impact, and ajusting the scope to get it right , which can take a lot of time.
But a thought came into my head the other evening (yes i do get them every now and again), whilst checking to see in the post was up outside the garage i noticed how the reflective tape was illuminated in the street lights, and as i had some left i thought how traffic cones on one of my perm's light up well could i use the tape as a target marker. Not wanting to put a full strip on a board i fed a bit through the paper punch and stuck the little self adhesive discs to a board and tried them out, and they worked.
Not only could i see the target at my 36 yard range on low IR, i knew if i was spot on i would destroy the little discs even with a .177 pellet thus showing me i was on target, i could also stick them onto spinners. I also tried the target boards out past 60 yards and had no problem seeing them, ok hitting them was a different matter. I have some photos and a couple of short video clips through the photon but will have to post them later as my card reader has broken and a new one has only just been ordered.
As for the reflective tape i bought mine from my local cycle shop a few years ago in red,amber and white , and all three light up well.
daz