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    Randall, that is a good thought, but i track DA on my kestrel pretty closely when practicing. It dropped a few hundred feet, but with .1 mil granularity on my turrets, i can't even correct for that inside 700y. Iirc a 1000' drop in DA is worth .1 mil past 700.


    Johnny, yeah, i'm just being whiny. it does distract me a bit though because the motion of the spot moving against background in your peripheral vision grabs your attention.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taliv View Post
    i track DA on my kestrel pretty closely when practicing. It dropped a few hundred feet
    Yeah, that's nothing.
    I have seen 3000 ft DA shifts from light to dark and that certainly is enough change to cause a few moa correction.
    It's different out here in the desert...
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    Quote Originally Posted by taliv View Post
    Johnny, yeah, i'm just being whiny. it does distract me a bit though because the motion of the spot moving against background in your peripheral vision grabs your attention.
    I've got one blemish in my PVS-14 that's in about the perfect spot for blocking out street lights and such. It makes sense that it would be a distraction in a clip-on. I wonder how easy these are to work on. I think as long as the recoil mitigation works well you could just keep your eyes open for a super clean tube and swap it out. If you know anything about collimating optics you could build yourself a little collimating table and do the swap yourself. I know a few guys did that with those pos ATN clip-on's.
    I'm not cool. I just do this stuff for fun.

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    I never like to bump old threads but I figured this would be the best place to put this.

    I am about finished setting up my spotter/ ranging setup. I would still like to get one of the new dbal's to help brighten things up at night. I was able to use one with this the other night and was really impressed.

    All things considered I am pretty happy with how this turned out. The only real downside that I have noticed so far is that the setup is side heavy because of the way the spotter hangs off to the side of mount rather than directly over the tripod head. Big thanks to all the guys who answered my questions about equipment here. Also the rangefinder and the spotter are not exactly lined up so some adjustment is needed to transition from one to the other. I have only been able to use this at night once because I just got the SNAP. You really do need to throw some IR illumination down range for the pvs14 to work well so JohnnyC was exactly right on that. I am sure that a clip on night sight would work better but I don't have one of them to try out.

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    ^^That is awesomeness ^^

    Damn you guys, and your cool ass toys

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    OK, that's not very cool or anything. Fork me guys, your kit is unreal. I would love to have one dedicated NV 308 rifle.

    Maybe one day, thanks for sharing.

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    So what! You won't do any night shooting anyways.

    Quote Originally Posted by Pappabear View Post
    OK, that's not very cool or anything. Fork me guys, your kit is unreal. I would love to have one dedicated NV 308 rifle.

    Maybe one day, thanks for sharing.

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    I'm afraid of the dark. That's when those Zombies come out, I keep hearing about on m4carbine.net.
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    I'm down for one more night shoot before it gets too cold in the desert!
    "You people have too much time on your hands." - scottryan

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    As soon as I pick up my CNVD-LR I'll invite you guys out and we'll do a night shoot. Have a PVS-14 and a micro, just need the clip-on. I don't know anyplace to shoot at night though, as I do most of my shooting at 3 Points or Pima Pistol Club.
    I'm not cool. I just do this stuff for fun.

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