Im gonna pretend yall didnt read the other night vision threads and let this be a reboot to the series. Considering that all the threads are a complex clusterfuck that makes my brain feel like it has a computer virus. This will be a incel guide to night vision. Especially if you dont have cucked gun laws and want to shoot a silenced 22 under night vision like me.
First timers: So for your first unit of night vision, most likely will be fake night vision or digital night vision. It deos work. Just not as quality as actuall night vision or anolog. Digital just means a camera tweecked around to see infered light. Most digital NV deviced will come with a built in IR emiter since people who barely know the basics of it wont be able to figure the device still need a IR light source to work. And thankfully most of these devices especially a night fox red will allow the deactivation of the IR emiter. Digital device despite working will be alot less powerfull then the anolog NV that is used by milatary. But is literally one tenth the price. Night fox swift or red can run you up to 200$. A "budget" anolog monoculare NV device will be 1000$ not including the mount. Or helmet. Until you got money your best off with the cheap shit for a small handfull of reasons.
IR light: is a light that well can only be seen by IR devices. Thing is though the IR emited from digital NV will look like a mobile lighthouse to perspective of a anolog NV user. Digital has zero chance againts anolog NV. Thing is though theres another down side of digital NV. Remember that IR light emiter? Well its not exactly invisible to the nacked eye. If close enought you can see some red being emited. That has to due to light frequency. Red is technicly the hardest color to see with the nacked eye besides IR. There almost neighbors in a way to frequency. And digital NV will show that red light. And there is 2 ways to counter that. One is reducing the IR emiter to minimal emissions and pray that the other person doesnt see your red dot of LOOK AT THAT! Night fox isnt good at making the red dots hard to see at close range and thats why the 2nd option is much better. That is turnning off the IR emmiter entirely and releying on a IR flashlight. It wont do good against other NV users especially anolog users. Since theyll see the IR light like fucking crazy. But if other people dont have NV, you have 2 ways the stay hidden. In close range use the IR light alone but either point it down or diagnoll to your target. The red light can only be seen when looking at the source directly. But from your persepctive, the light will splash around the whole area. Illuminating small to medium rooms up perfectly. This works for both types of NV. But heres the thing. One problem with all NV is they wont tell the difference between normal light and IR light. Human eye can wich is part of why most anolog users stick to a mono tub but the bigger reason is budget. But unfortunately if you got digital NV. Its most likely a biochlar device. One camera, but emits to 2 eyes of the user.
Fov : is as fucked as it gets. Witch is one of many reasons why you should get a weapon mounted laser if youll be shooting under NV. And be really observant. Learn CQB shooting if this is your thing. NV under CQB. So thats that and look around some extra if your observing a large area other wise you wont get as big of a bicture of the situation as nacked eyes under day time.
Mounts: really depend un what your device is. If you got NightFox then itll most lickley come with its own mount that you wont wants. The head strap isnt to strong and thankfully comes with a go pro mount so you can mount it one a shitty helmet wich is alot better then the strap included. Now for anog, Imma be honest I dont know anything about for mounts but theres always youtube for that info. But youtube is mostly gonna show you shit for anolog NV and not how to make the best of digital.
Shooting under NV: has only really come down to 2 options. Passive or Active. Passive means using a red dot sight with NV settings were the dot get dim enought were the human eye alone cants see it but NV can. Well anolog NV. Remember when I said digital NV is not as strong as anolog? Well because of that the only real good way of seeing the dot is well, making the dot bright enough to see under the nacked eye. Add the fact that the lense of a red dot will act as a filter preventing or reducing the light of IR going through and well, making what your aiming at dimmer. That can be solved somwhat with a big window of a red dot. Aimpoint comp M4, Eotech, SIG romeo 8T. Large windows allowing light to go through. But as I mentioned under digitall NV. The light will need to be as bright as day light settings, meaning the light from the optic will both mask what you see through the optic, and will give your target some more red light to see. With anolog you can use NV setting much more effectively and see alot better since anolog works much differently from digital. But is still better off with active for other reasons. And you still get the filtering of darckness of what you aim at through a optic. Isnt as bad as digital but still there. Thats were active aiming goes into play.
Active aiming: is prefered by 90 percent of NV users who shoot guns under NV. Its were you use a laser sight with NV settings and set it to NV. And its a matter of point the dot at a target and shoot. You dont need to aim your weapon weather handgun or rifle at target. You can literally hip fire or almost hip fire the weapon. Its kinda exotic in a way of aiming compared to normal aiming of a firearm. Withought aiming the firearm you preserve your FOV. You dont have to worry about alignment of the fire arm witch I forgot to mention on the passive aiming paragraph. Its alot better of a aiming solution overall weather you use digital or anolog NV. Now if its on a handgun. Just get a Holosun IR laser and zero that bitch. On a rifle you gotta to deal with rail flex unless you have a non freefloat rifle, a riflie with a monolithic handguard, one of those weird ass optics with a laser built in the optic witch is rare and expensive or one of those AK optic rails that has a side rail peices for lasersights. But 90 percent of ar15s have shitty freefloat handguards so mind the leverage and pick wisley. Now there is one flaw of the laser. Battery isnt gonna last as long as a red dot so have either some rechargable batterys or extra ones on ya. Oh and the whole other people can see your laser is a falicy. Look at Brass Facts channel on NV to see how detectible you really are using IR lasers.
If NV for you: well, is it? Punk? Dirty harry aside NV deos has its uses and capabilities. Its gonna only be as good as the user itself. If you have NV. Youll only get good with it if you use it. Other wise your just stockpiling on shit for somone else to loot up. Infact I might be unknowingly wrong about the stuff I said. Get experience with NV shit if you got NV shit. Or as the MW2 quickscopers say "gitguud". Learn things. Use things. Training will be what gets you good at shit.
First timers: So for your first unit of night vision, most likely will be fake night vision or digital night vision. It deos work. Just not as quality as actuall night vision or anolog. Digital just means a camera tweecked around to see infered light. Most digital NV deviced will come with a built in IR emiter since people who barely know the basics of it wont be able to figure the device still need a IR light source to work. And thankfully most of these devices especially a night fox red will allow the deactivation of the IR emiter. Digital device despite working will be alot less powerfull then the anolog NV that is used by milatary. But is literally one tenth the price. Night fox swift or red can run you up to 200$. A "budget" anolog monoculare NV device will be 1000$ not including the mount. Or helmet. Until you got money your best off with the cheap shit for a small handfull of reasons.
IR light: is a light that well can only be seen by IR devices. Thing is though the IR emited from digital NV will look like a mobile lighthouse to perspective of a anolog NV user. Digital has zero chance againts anolog NV. Thing is though theres another down side of digital NV. Remember that IR light emiter? Well its not exactly invisible to the nacked eye. If close enought you can see some red being emited. That has to due to light frequency. Red is technicly the hardest color to see with the nacked eye besides IR. There almost neighbors in a way to frequency. And digital NV will show that red light. And there is 2 ways to counter that. One is reducing the IR emiter to minimal emissions and pray that the other person doesnt see your red dot of LOOK AT THAT! Night fox isnt good at making the red dots hard to see at close range and thats why the 2nd option is much better. That is turnning off the IR emmiter entirely and releying on a IR flashlight. It wont do good against other NV users especially anolog users. Since theyll see the IR light like fucking crazy. But if other people dont have NV, you have 2 ways the stay hidden. In close range use the IR light alone but either point it down or diagnoll to your target. The red light can only be seen when looking at the source directly. But from your persepctive, the light will splash around the whole area. Illuminating small to medium rooms up perfectly. This works for both types of NV. But heres the thing. One problem with all NV is they wont tell the difference between normal light and IR light. Human eye can wich is part of why most anolog users stick to a mono tub but the bigger reason is budget. But unfortunately if you got digital NV. Its most likely a biochlar device. One camera, but emits to 2 eyes of the user.
Fov : is as fucked as it gets. Witch is one of many reasons why you should get a weapon mounted laser if youll be shooting under NV. And be really observant. Learn CQB shooting if this is your thing. NV under CQB. So thats that and look around some extra if your observing a large area other wise you wont get as big of a bicture of the situation as nacked eyes under day time.
Mounts: really depend un what your device is. If you got NightFox then itll most lickley come with its own mount that you wont wants. The head strap isnt to strong and thankfully comes with a go pro mount so you can mount it one a shitty helmet wich is alot better then the strap included. Now for anog, Imma be honest I dont know anything about for mounts but theres always youtube for that info. But youtube is mostly gonna show you shit for anolog NV and not how to make the best of digital.
Shooting under NV: has only really come down to 2 options. Passive or Active. Passive means using a red dot sight with NV settings were the dot get dim enought were the human eye alone cants see it but NV can. Well anolog NV. Remember when I said digital NV is not as strong as anolog? Well because of that the only real good way of seeing the dot is well, making the dot bright enough to see under the nacked eye. Add the fact that the lense of a red dot will act as a filter preventing or reducing the light of IR going through and well, making what your aiming at dimmer. That can be solved somwhat with a big window of a red dot. Aimpoint comp M4, Eotech, SIG romeo 8T. Large windows allowing light to go through. But as I mentioned under digitall NV. The light will need to be as bright as day light settings, meaning the light from the optic will both mask what you see through the optic, and will give your target some more red light to see. With anolog you can use NV setting much more effectively and see alot better since anolog works much differently from digital. But is still better off with active for other reasons. And you still get the filtering of darckness of what you aim at through a optic. Isnt as bad as digital but still there. Thats were active aiming goes into play.
Active aiming: is prefered by 90 percent of NV users who shoot guns under NV. Its were you use a laser sight with NV settings and set it to NV. And its a matter of point the dot at a target and shoot. You dont need to aim your weapon weather handgun or rifle at target. You can literally hip fire or almost hip fire the weapon. Its kinda exotic in a way of aiming compared to normal aiming of a firearm. Withought aiming the firearm you preserve your FOV. You dont have to worry about alignment of the fire arm witch I forgot to mention on the passive aiming paragraph. Its alot better of a aiming solution overall weather you use digital or anolog NV. Now if its on a handgun. Just get a Holosun IR laser and zero that bitch. On a rifle you gotta to deal with rail flex unless you have a non freefloat rifle, a riflie with a monolithic handguard, one of those weird ass optics with a laser built in the optic witch is rare and expensive or one of those AK optic rails that has a side rail peices for lasersights. But 90 percent of ar15s have shitty freefloat handguards so mind the leverage and pick wisley. Now there is one flaw of the laser. Battery isnt gonna last as long as a red dot so have either some rechargable batterys or extra ones on ya. Oh and the whole other people can see your laser is a falicy. Look at Brass Facts channel on NV to see how detectible you really are using IR lasers.
If NV for you: well, is it? Punk? Dirty harry aside NV deos has its uses and capabilities. Its gonna only be as good as the user itself. If you have NV. Youll only get good with it if you use it. Other wise your just stockpiling on shit for somone else to loot up. Infact I might be unknowingly wrong about the stuff I said. Get experience with NV shit if you got NV shit. Or as the MW2 quickscopers say "gitguud". Learn things. Use things. Training will be what gets you good at shit.
