How to Train with Night Vision 

this is my issue lol

@@creekbendexcavating8830 same. lol

This is exactly why I'm going to end up with two units. It's so cool but not being able to take someone out with me really tampers it down. It's taken a few years but I'll afford another set just for that, it's a bigger investment than I thought but I enjoy it and nothing else is quite like it.

Get into milsim airsoft and you’ll find out this problem goes away.

@@dwilliams3594 I’d like to shoot real guns though😂

Save up for ir to

@@tylarhaugan7908 most definitely 👍

Waiting on a can too. I figure I still have half a year the way the ATF moves. They accepted my paperwork, photo and prints back in March.

Just asked for the gubmint’s permission for an Omega 36m. Atleast by the time I get it I’ll have pvs14, team Wendy, and laser hopefully. Man I love being poor🌛

@@MrFooqair mine was around the same time. According to the days I’ll get mine on St Patrick’s day 🤣. Makes no sense to wait that long 😂

⌚️ Evropa the last battle

I to a lot of goonin myself and really appreciated being chased in pitch black woods by two very noisy chattering owls. I threw up the old M640V Surefire vamp light and caught their eyes easily reflecting from the branches and was able to watch them swooping down form branch to branch buzzbombing my head. Then they'd land again as I proceeded through their territory making a lot of noise and hooting sounds. I got it on video but couldn't film the NV tubes.

@@RunningWithSauce I had a family of pygmy owls over my head last night, and have had 4 mountain lion encounters this year, plus countless, elk, foxes, badgers, etc. Got the owls on video but my NV clip on recorder is garbage. And I also walked by some stoners making out last night and they thought I didn't see them but their blunt was like a giant fucking "I'm here beacon" under nods, and said "nice star gazing tonight, huh?" And the dude pointed to himself like he wasn't sure if I was talking to him 😂 Also have ran into other dudes with nods, which is terrifying.

me and my friends have had pvs-14s since May, probably put about 200-300 hours already as well and none of it was shooting yet. urban exploring and driving is so fucking fun

@@AJuniorOutdoorsman haha. Awesome. I’ve had many similar experiences with running into people that have no idea I’m there. Sometimes when it’s dark AF I’ll step off the trail and just stand next to a tree a few feet away and just let people pass seeing if their natural vision can see me. It’s amazing to me how many people don’t have flashlights or choose to use them. I ran into a family of raccoons that were invading a park garbage and they saw me but you could tell they were counting on me not seeing them. Half went up a tree and the other half split off went to the edge of the lake bank and hung onto the edge like ninjas. I had an IR flood on and their eyes gave them away haha. I got to the edge of the lake and just stood over them looking down saying outloud “I see you”. They started a high pitched chattering haha.

Definitely need an outdoor range for that

@@hunterbradley5550how about Portland

​​@@georgekirby3361that'll do, go ham bucko

@@hunterbradley5550 We have a large outdoor range just near of Hurlburt Field AFB in Florida. Lots of old tanks to shoot. It’s a blast.

ENEMY AC130 ABOVE!!

yoooo that's actually a good idea. Imma have to do something similar

actually a super rad idea

We did the same thing but with actual golf and glow in the dark balls, why yes we were drinking!

I love this! And it's a great reason to get my brother to buy nods😂

Awesome!!!

🌝 🤫

That's actually very important. NVGs, at least a bunch of non-ultra expensive ones wreck your depth perception. You don't even need to shoot at all. You can just get used to how they feel, how to move with having 6 inches hanging off your face, how to sight your gun around them, if your optics work, etc. There's a whole different set of fun involved in that.

Milsim west is that. Except you are killing the enemy

literally any night airsoft game. I had a hard time going up against dudes who were local, played together but only had white light. Couldn't engage very well, and had to just keep evading for most of the night 🤣😅

That does sound like fun.

Soooo true! So much harder than people think or realize...JUST noise discipline alone gives your presence away... regardless of NVGs

Are you thinking of something like an e-coti or a Jerri (chinese thermal)? Or something weapon mounted? Just curious... Thanks!

@@KrisSays Trijicon IR-PATROL can weapon mount and has the wilcox style dovetail for helmet as well would be nice but it's expensive. Might end up with an AGM product, by the time I can afford a "Good" thermal the market may have new offerings. I figure it's gonna be at least next spring or summer for squirreling away enough dosh for something reliable.

I felt the same way until I actually acquired night vision. I sold a bunch of stuff I wanted less than NODs and got a basic helmet setup and a PVS-14 and realized that if I'd just fixed my spending habits to begin with I'd have had it by now. Instead of spending a few hundred to put together an upper out of spare parts I could have just thrown it in the pot.

this is the way.

There's an article written by a guy who basically got to borrow some pvs 21s and do this for a week or so.

Why not both?

Tennessee: land of the free.

Tennessee is the patron state of shootin stuff

I ask every cop I meet hypothetically they catch me with this stuff. They all tell me as long as it's just that stuff and not narcotics they don't care. Unless they're gay-t-f

Tennessee sweetheart

@@hunterbradley5550I tell everyone the same thing.. I can see your SBR and I could care less. As long as you aren’t gang related and or dealing drugs. Carry on.

Got my ham license but I'm all alone. I kitted out my comms too.

​​@@rudals1281when you check into or listen to nets practice writing the frequency, time and date the frequency is active, write down the callsigns that check in and any interesting notes. Because sometimes with a bad signal you don't get a second chance to repeat the message. I was told that a good radio man writes down the info as it comes in. Practice making antennas out of alternative materials. Get a battery setup together and a way to charge them. Then take your radio setup out into the field and work out any kinks. There are a lot of things you can do to practice being a good radio operator on your own.

That's something I want to get Into same thing with land nav

I got pvs7's too. They fucking rule.

You want to focus to infinity, so stars are not a bad idea. I would couple this with focusing on something distant that has definitive shape and angles like block lettering or a group of buildings. We use basically an eye test box (Hoffman box) in aviation, but you can do it in the field in a pinch. To start, 0 your focal lens (inside), and turn your objective lens (outside) all the way over one way or the other before even putting them on. Adjust the objective lens to get your best picture (still probably fuzzy), then focal juuust until you get a readable picture, then final adjust your objective lens. If you over sharpen your focal, you will induce eye strain, so be careful fiddling with it if you think you need to. The lens focus ditty for the order of lens adjustment is: outside, inside, outside.

@@dogboy0912 Thanks!

Been looking for this little piece of information. Thank you

Be able to afford nods really

​@@chase1069 I care about my wife and I being in agreement on large financial purchases. We have the money for me to buy night vision, but I have to convince her that the money is worth it and she doesn't see it as a justifiable purchase.

I think the point is if you have white light and your adversary has NVG you have some advantages.