Night time pesting setups

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Hello I am using an ATN NVM14 mounted behind a red dot optic with NV capability either an Eotech , Aimpoint, Vortex crossfire or a Burris RT1 with an IR Inforce light mounted on a rail. Very happy with this set up out to 45 yds my range max distance. This setup also allows me to jump from my airguns to my PB with the same setup so I can shoot, pest and practice in places you can not do with your PB's at a fraction of the cost. Eric
 
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i have a 1st gen nightscope and used it to get a couple of ahole rabbits raiding my garden ... id love to have a newer atn or a thermal sure, but truth is ive bagged 'alot' more things at night with a flashlight or just a floodlight, or setting them up to be in a visible spot and figuring out 'when' theyre out .. so depends on what you got going on really .. sitting outdoors looking through a nightscope setup for hours looking for a target isnt the way to go generally .. not very effective ...
 
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i have a 1st gen nightscope and used it to get a couple of ahole rabbits raiding my garden ... id love to have a newer atn or a thermal sure, but truth is ive bagged 'alot' more things at night with a flashlight or just a floodlight, or setting them up to be in a visible spot and figuring out 'when' theyre out .. so depends on what you got going on really .. sitting outdoors looking through a nightscope setup for hours looking for a target isnt the way to go generally .. not very effective ...
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Makes a Nite Site system more attractive https://www.amazon.com/Nite-Site-Identification-Mounted-Hunting/dp/B015JRUVO8/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

I think these found popularity in the UK at one point.
 
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My night setup is a Brocock Commander XR with a Oneleaf mounted to a Hawke Sidewinder.
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I have an ATN X-Sight 3X14. It's heavy as a brick but an excellent sight. I also have the more plain Sightmark Photon RT nothing wrong with it either

If one wanted a lighter unit that attached to the scope I think that the One Leaf is the best bang for the buck for a scope add-on.

My post with some specs of several nighvision units.

https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/night-vision-for-dummies/#post-995002
 
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Looking to see what everyone else is using for those night time pests, rats, raccoons, etc 



What are your gun set ups



I've got a sightmark wraith I need to utilize and the airgun I was going to put it on isn't going to work
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What is the issue that the sightmark won't work with your current airgun? Is it a mounting issue, or you feel that your current gun isn't powerful enough? 

I have leaned towards using a lot of power for my nighttime setup for raccoons using the Benjamin Bulldog .357 with the ATN Thor 4 thermal scope. I use 110gr NSA slugs and Predator Polymags both to excellent effect, but the slugs over-penetrate retaining maybe half of their energy. The Predator Polymags out of the same gun drop them just as dead, but with no passthroughs on bodyshots. I also use the DonnyFL Emperor suppressor to keep things somewhat quiet.

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Here is a Polymag dropping a raccoon at 25 yards from my window with the Polymags.



https://youtu.be/iRFWtJZMlyw


 
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I feel the same as some members here. I have a pard nv007, ,and while it’s an awesome little night vision, looking through it for long periods definitely causes fatigue. A simple flashlight setup has been better for me, and much faster to deploy when I’m jumping out of bed when my next cam alerts me of motion around my chicken coop. I sent the pard to a friend for him to test alongside some other nv scopes, and it’ll be interesting to hear how it hold# against nv almost twice it’s price. 
 
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My situation is going to involve me sitting in a couple barns and picking off the rats as they come out. I have used my wraith a handful of times off a rifle to get used to it and I definitely agree with you guys, I can see how it can get tiresome, without a doubt. I should have bought the Pard to put on my scope so I can take it on and off the rifle.
 
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My situation is going to involve me sitting in a couple barns and picking off the rats as they come out. I have used my wraith a handful of times off a rifle to get used to it and I definitely agree with you guys, I can see how it can get tiresome, without a doubt. I should have bought the Pard to put on my scope so I can take it on and off the rifle.
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For ratting I'd want as large a FOV as I could get.

I'm running a PARD 008LRF on my FX Maverick. That 6.5x magnification and tiny FOV is a handicap at "inside a barn" ranges let alone inside a chicken coop range. For really close range, I use a green laser mounted on the side, parallel to the bore. You can see it in the picture, just behind the cylinder.

ETA- The Estarkey thermal route would be awesome for ratting. I'd still look for as much FOV as possible. Something like a AGM TS25-384 or a Bering Optics Hogster R25 both have 78 feet/100 yard FOV @ 1.5x magnification. The ATN Thor 4 has 84 feet/100 yard FOV @ 1.25 magnification. Those are base models that cost right around $2k.

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I agree that thermal is a fantastic solution to a lot of problems, and my thermal brings a smile to my face every time I use it. But one of the issues with my THOR 4 (and probably other thermal scopes) is depth perception. Since you mostly only see the heat signatures, and at night, a lot of things reach homeostasis at ambient temperature, many features simply disappear, as the temp of their surroundings is the same. Sometimes switching color profiles helps deal with this, but I find any color profile that isn't White Hot or Black Hot to be very tiring on your eyes, even at the absolute lowest display brightness. So depending where you are pesting, and how much equipment is around, it may be hard to see everything that matters that isn't generating heat.

@Hal4son, I love the look of that PARD on your Maverick! Can the scope be mounted without the bracket so the scope height is reduced? I was thinking about getting one for my Maverick .30cal at the ATN is quite heavy.
 
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@estarkey7 I don't think you can get it much lower as the mount is screwed into the bottom of the PARD. It's a comfortable height on the Maverick as it is. The center of the objective to the centerline of the bore is about 3-1/4". While a high mount causes issues inside of 12 yards, it makes the gun appear super flat shooting between 17 and 55. A lower mount would not have those same holdovers.

I like the PARD. However I would like it more if it had twice the FOV even if it cost me most of the magnification. That 6.5x is good out to 200+ yards shooting coyotes at night (PB). But it's really tight picking starlings out of the trees inside of 20. If it was a 2x and had 50' FOV it would be a most formidable optic. Especially when tied to that fantasticly accurate LRF.



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