The Truth About Night Vision | Colion Noir Podcast #11 

Honey you want to be protected? I gotta spend 8K

Colion after seeing the price of nightvision: **slams 25 ads into an hour long video**

I like how Colion conducted himself during this podcast. He was there to learn and acquire information and share his knowledge with the masses. He didn't act like a know-it-all like most.

I'm just mad that NVGs don't make the splinter cell sound

The truth: Anything good is horribly expensive 😥

Repeal the NFA!

I love how youtube demonetizes shooters pages but throws ads in every 3 minutes. Bullshit. But great video Noir, thanks for the content.

Listening to Noir complaining about pricing while driving a G wagon and has no kids 🤔

Let be honest the best thing about night vision is looking at the stars ✨

He speaks the truth. Over the last 8 years, I have lost around 1500 birds to varmints around my place. Fathers day saw all my kids & wife chip in and get me a ATN Thor 4 scope. First week saw 5 fox's, 4 coyotes a fisher and 13 raccoons go down and there has not been a week that goes by that I don't get a shot off at somthing. The night is nolonger their friend.

White Phosphorus is the sh*t but you'll be spending at the very least $10-15k...but price should not matter when it comes to larping in your basement and fighting in nerf wars.

The truth: *its not like video games*

Pro tip: It never occurred to me me NOT to store my NVG in a Pelican case.

how refreshing to listen to someone who actually understands I2.

Umm $2000 for night vision?? Yeah, no way...haha. You're looking at $3500 minimum for a PVS14, plus $400 for a helmet, $600 for a mount, $1200 for a laser (or $2700 for a MAWL), $150 for a TAPS, oh, let's not forget the $600 NVG compatible red dot and $100 riser, and that's not including a weapons light that has an illuminator.

Great interview with Chip. This guy knows his stuff, have him on again.

I am a NVG Technician with USAF. This dude is the real deal.

The amount of adds is beyond stupid.

This has been one of the most interesting conversations I’ve heard in a while. This guy is extremely knowledgeable. Good interview

Jfk.... Puts men on the moon Biden/obama.... Put men into ladies room.. VOTE TRUMP 2020 protect our amazing 2nd A!

Chip is an awesome guy and one of the most knowledgeable gents we have on this subject, for sure. I dealt with him a couple of times when he was with TNVC- a consummate professional. So is Teddy!! I ended up saving my pennies for an unfilmed white phos PVS-14 from TNVC because that’s all I could afford lol. That plus ancillary equipment= easily 5 grand folks 😬. And I ain’t rich but buy once cry once I say 😉😎

personally I think you should revisit this topic because N.V. and thermal optic has come innovatively a very long way in the last 2 years A long way.. it would be nice to see this content upated

I met Chip at the first "friends of Pat", he sat down, said hi, conversed about background and when we trained with Pat Rogers. Very friendly and personable regardless of the fact we were just regular guys. He treated us as good as the ninjas that were all over the event.

Bro wtf, I've watched almost 6 hours of nvg videos today and now you drop this.

I think I'm just going to get a bright ass flash light lol

That’s great information about the pelican case I had no idea about the moisture and thanks for all the rest of the info about the night vision Out comes the rifles thanks guys

Thanks guys! This was really, really good. I just attended my gun club’s night shoot and got turned onto white phosphor for the first time. I also appreciated the discussion around shooting passive, which is why I’m happy I went with the Eotech EXPS3 which is NV compatible.

Stay away from shading, edge glow, flickering and emission points. These are considered serious malfunctions if you're looking at new or used. AKA material detects

I saw zero ads during this video

Would be nice if there were a circuit timer on the tube like DSLR camera sensors do. You buy a used camera, you can easily see how many times the shutter has clicked.

Anyone here have experience with US Night Vision? I kind of been eyeballing their PVS 14’s but I got time before I’m done saving 💰

I use a PVS-14 3+ WP and a FLIR Breach on a mod armory mount. so far I really like this set up

This was good stuff man, please have this dude back on for a round two.

46:18 throws out the chupacabra, no one bats an eye.

I just learned more about night vision in one hour than i have ever known. Excellent info.

Chip looks like a call of duty character

Faaaahk I just checked out the PVS-14 from NVD (Night Vision Devices) & their TOL (Top of line) is roughly 4500$!!!!! Low end ... 2800$! Goddammmmm

Wow! Lots of great info! Thanks for taking time on this! 🇺🇸👍 I also like Colins expensive audio makers hangin on the wall behind him! 😜 I LOVE ALL MY Audio devices too! Some got lost in a recent boat accident too....

Colin, I dropped 9 grand on Gen3, 4x scope, the extra was for a top tier tube, with the data sheet.,in 2006 and it’s still top notch…. I dropped 5 grand on Pulsar Thermal… Best thing ever to find a lost cat, or hunting… Or Bee removals out of houses. Pulsar !!!

I believe that Thermal doesn't show through glass, but light magnifiers do.

27:50 Yep, best way to check if your TV remote is working... Point it at the camera on your phone (obviously with the camera app on like you're gonna take a picture) and hit a button. If the remote is working, you will see the IR LED on the remote light up on the phone screen (usually like a violet color).

Take batteries out leave it in dark dry spot

Thank you for your service sir. Great guest Colion Also.... Where do you hog hunt?? I want to look into trying it sometime! Thank you bro keep fighting for 2A and giving others a good image of minority 2A supporters. Not all of us are want to be thugs and gangsters 😪

I want dual tubes and I’m in the market now for an Nvg set but mannnnn I keep coming back to the pvs14. Especially for the price. I had so much time under 14s in the army, been working with SF ODAs I’m Afghanistan, would drive at night with them, get into fights with them, I got so used to them I feel like dual tubes would be a sweet upgrade but paying more than double the price for a small performance gain.

Yes. night vision gets expensive quick! But if you have the money it's definitely worth it.

25:00 in Iraq, we used IR spotlights which would light up hundreds of yards of darkness.

Night vision (image intensification) has an expiration date/life cycle. NVG/NVD require maintenance to recharge and/or replace the photocathode. They are also susceptible to damage from bright/daylight. Thermals are a sensitive camcorder.

Awesome interview. Have pvs14 and thermal. Best purchase so far. 👍🏻

Price? = would you happen to have any of Jesus’s blood laying around 🤔

Late 2022 here! My how things have changed since the launch of this vid right? So for a guy that has ZERO intensions of taking on military grade soldiers with top line equipment, I would just like a professional opinion to tell me what the best bang for the buck is to defend my house against bad people that arent quite prepared as the typical God fearing American. Say 100yds tops? Cheers

Early gang

How do I tell my wife I’m getting ready to get some dual tubes or panoramic quad tubes and also thermal fusion add on to my tubes…😅 edit: jk she knows and is okay with it, she wants a pair too so guess I’m getting two pairs of nods and two thermal fusion devices or Jerry c clips with 2 devtac ronins with Wilcox mounts and bells and whistles

Most folks just cant afford or find these items at this late date. Nor do they have the time necessary to get proficient with them. I suggest that they concentrate more on trips and lethal traps. The one thing that high end, tech dependent operators, do not like to hear. In a civilian WROL scenario, few of us will be out taking it to the other guys. We should be hunkering down. Hopefully in a well conceived prepper retreat, with a butt load of booby traps in our perimeters. Trips and traps are limited only by our imagination. Just like night vision, these devices are serious combat multipliers. They come with a stigma but we should not let that bother us. If someone is coming after the stuff we need to survive, or they want to harm our families, nothing should be off the table. These devices are essentially non contact force. Thats where you want to be, fighting without contact until the aggressor moves on to an easier target. Figure out what devices are most effective for your AO and start gathering the supplies you'll need, NOW.

my dad the boomer call you all gey for using night vision, says "your eyes dilate... in korea we had our own night vision" then just kept rambling on making you guys' butts dilate or something idk I tuned out.

"He who sees at night, rules the night". If you can see it during the day, night vision allows you to see it at night. He classified Thermal as a night vision, it's not. it's 24/7 vision. It works as well in the day as night. Thermal will reveal heat signatures the same during the day as at night. If I can have only one, Thermal is it. If you can't afford Thermal, any night vision is better than none. You can something decent (like ATN) for around $600 in night vision for a rifle scope. Thermal is around $1,200. This will give you a few hundred yards vision, day and night. If you want to reach out 1,000s of yards, you will start adding $1,000s depending what you are getting. I don't have a rifle thermal, yet. But, I do have a FLIR. It was under $600 and rated to detect a man at 100 yards. My personal experience was a skunk at 150-175 yds.

My sons pooled their resources together and purchased a night vision scope for me and gave it to me on Fathers Day. I've mounted it on both an AR and my 7mm-08 magazine fed rifle. I also have a rangefinder that links to the scope, which makes shooting a little like a game. I enter a little information (wind speed) and it provides a shooting solution. And does it in less than a second. It's great for daylight or night. It came with an IR "flashlight" but it's a little weak. A stronger one is my next purchase. Being in Utah, I need to look up the class Colion came for... And Colion said he's fallen down the rabbit hole. I think someone pushed him.

I remember when I got to use nvgs back in the early 90’s. Our patrols or infills and/or exfills we had the point man and the rear guard with nvgs and the rest of us followed the patrol caps of the soldiers in front of us. The only thing that slowed us down was fog. That was fun as we ran through the woods at night.

I love the riser talk. With my Primary Arms ACSS Raptor I have the lever mount that puts the center of the optic 1.5 inches above the bore. I added a 1 inch riser to keep me more upright, and easier to wear ear pro and other gear. For some reason people in these gun groups don't understand it, and some really like to tell me their opinion of my set up

Gen 2+ white phosphor is where its at as far as cost, and performance is concerned.

I bought a super cheap NVG basically a child’s toy IMHO. Plastic goggles that actually let you see what’s going on in a pitch black situation. I get around the house fine and even creeped up on my pizza guy in the dark. Would I use it to get out of the house in an emergency? Yes. Would I use it to go into an outdoor war fighting situation? No. But I guess cheap NVG is better than no NVG. IMHO

I think I developed epilepsy watching his fan spin

love your vids but damn wayy to many ads brother.

Its more then just a monocular. To be effective with the NVGs hours and days of training. Thousands of rounds, suppressor, then IR laser. A $3000 PVS 14 will end up being $7000-9000 at the end to be effective.

Very good info. now just need some cash

just buy apple stock and Nio stock and wait a yr. you'll have enough dividends and capital gains to buy a decent PVS 14 white phosphorus gen 3 or something better.

Yo he a night vision and a podcast vision expert

I was really disappointed watching one particular episode of The Orville. They go running into this subterranean tunnel and I just knew they where going to pull out some cool glasses that had some amazing night vision...all they have are hand held white lights. And I bet they weren't even 500 lumen. 400 years more advanced but just flashlights for away members?

I really liked this interview. Colion is exactly how I was not that long ago and this was a really good interview for beginners. I love the way he asked questions, they were so typical for an novice.

Lol...Say “Image Intensification” 10 times!!

this is great timing. i bought pvs 14 bundle about 3 months ago, and i have training lined up soon with it. i learned allot before, and this video both confirms, and adds to it. thank you so much.

the explanation as to the manufacturing process and how they actually work was very interesting.

a guy named Chip....... (the real mckenzies - chip starts playin) ;)

Why aren't they mass produced? Optics hard, photomultipliers really hard.

Night Vision, the addiction more expensive than drugs... ~Brass Facts Hello from 2023, Also anyone who's getting NVG's RIGHT NOW, if you have a standard PVS14 an M30 to M37 iris for a camera will screw right into the front and a clear 37mm filter can be used for a sacrificial front end lens and you can use 37mm camera pinch caps to store safely. I snagged a deal on a PVS 14 with a Gen3 Elbit WP ~2690fom SLH tube, and compared to the old gen2 green that i've seen before it's AMAZING. No specks or blotches and the black and white contrast for my colorblindness is fantastic! (center res 81Lpmm, SNR 33.2) April of 2023 was $3200. I was shocked at what I paid for vs what showed up. The only drawback to thermals is you don't get to see through glass with it. No driving, no looking out your window.

If you have looked onto the night vision goggles in broad daylight? Right after Big Sarge told you not too. Go ahead and give me a thumbs up.

24:50 Other direction. Above normal human vision is IR, below it is UV. The normal vision range is 400-700nm. Post 700nm is the IR range, below 400nm is the UV range.

PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION. are black people less noticable in night vision? google is hiding the quick result

Thank You for touching on this. I’m in Texas. Hey Colion , my neighbor. Yes We have soo many coyotes that are taking down new born calves. We have hogs but not in an every night problem but it will! Also please keep Us up to date on Your use of the new toy. Thank You!

Surplus ballistic helmet, eBay surplus mount and shroud…… that’s how I saved a bit when I started with NV

*** I have not watched the video yet *** I own a few different night vision devices right now for anyone who talks about the second amendment in the way the founding fathers did or wants to be a modern Minuteman and have the ability to respond she was threatening owning and night vision is one of the biggest crashes you can put yourself in if you own multiple AR-15 but not a set of night vision you are actively crippling yourself you can get into the game with a generation 3 green phosphor pvs-14 around the $2,000 price point if you have to sell a few of your guns to cover the price of a unit then you can spend a few hundred more on a helmet and then save up for a laser people who own 40 guns talking about how they're going to be a post-apocalyptic Warlord is genuinely laughable

Interesting, I’m still subscribed, but this video never popped up in my feed. I had to search for you since I decided today that I haven’t seen one of your videos in a few days.

Love your work! 🤙🏼🇺🇸

Good starting point 👉 Stop being poor.

I run an mh-25 and a gen 3 Pvs-14 white phosphor for my viewing optics. Great great combo. Edit: for reference, it’s about 10k to do.

Just a talking point for those who support the 2A If someone who’s denied firearms based on a background check defends their life with a firearm, would you find the victim guilty of “possession of an illegal firearm”?

Image intensifiers are half the cost, and easy to destroy if you expose it to daylight. Thermal scopes are great at seeing animals in the dark and from light into darker areas like during the day ...but don't see through glass.

Just learned a lot in 60 minutes My life in regards to my set up consists of replacement of batteries which is like a monthly bill as well 😂 Lights, lasers, optics, ear pro, etc if you train enough powering that stuff is costly then range cost bullets ohhh boy

At 32:40 your guest mentioned. Friend who talk about processor speed of operators. Can that talk be posted online or linked to me?

Night vision has some advantages and thermal has its advantages. There disadvantages are clear if you served in the military. Civilian models are the same as military expensive. You pay to play in the dark! I prefer open sights and low power light. Some of my longest shots in military were with no light .

I started off with not as much money and bought a Gen 2+ monocular (which is tremendously better than what I had in the 101st Airborne in the 80’s which was NADA, CO had the only device in the company) and it’s a surprisingly good performer, especially with my MRO red dots and the mounts allowing me to mount to any rifle it’s rated to handle.

Thanks very much for info on night vision goggles. Very interesting.Very detailed from detection+ intensification to red lasers only you can see to white phosphorus. I'm like you Colin think I'd need help buying one with fuel tubes but the training and care for such advance night vision is very interesting.

I watched this for the ads.

IR is good for catching ghosts just like night vision. Multi spectrum.

For shooting, I can run a single tube on my non-dominant eye and use my red dot normally through my dominant eye. Since I’m used to shooting with both eyes open and learned to shoot on illuminated scopes with small eye boxes, my brain processes both pictures and lays them over one another without issues. My feeling is anyone can train themselves to take two pictures from two eyes and make them work together with enough practice.

Colions teeth are fucking perfect... man... text book perfect teeth.

The best night vision isn't even available to the public. Military gen 6 are the ones to get. I know, I use to build them for the DOD @ L3 communications in AZ.

He said infrared illuminator can only be seen thru night vision, does he mean using infrared imager here or does he mean image intensifier?

He actually talked pretty candidly about the limitations and down-sides. That's pretty rare. This was a good public service, CN. The physical conditioning, training, and costs of TACTICAL NV are cost prohibitive. The chronic neck injuries are almost unavoidable. The presbyopia sets in early and stronger. Nobody talks about this stuff, but everybody wants to "see in the dark." Hints for civilians: a chem light kicks out very useful ambient light when tossed into a dark room, the back yard, etc. They're $1 each and light as a feather. P.S. Yes, they make IR chem lights. They cost more than $1 each. You know how to defeat state of the art NV? Light switches and big fires. Work every time.

Too many commercials. You lost me 🤷🏽‍♂️

Can't use night vision if you're being blinded by flares and floodlights 😎