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KarlHaemmerlein
Optics GrassHopper Joined: September/27/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9 |
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SVT, let me ask you a question on the SPARC. Is the red dot visible to the naked eye on the lowest NV setting when the lighting conditions are still good enough to see reasonably well with the naked eye? I foolishly purchased an Insight Technologies MRDS for it's night vision setting and light weight for use on my Dan Wesson 375 supermag for some night time amusement. Contrary to Insights published data, the red dot on the NV setting is visible in reasonably light conditions, that combined with the dot not being "clean" makes it useless for target shooting with good night vision equipment. It is simply way to bright for anything but large target close range work. Between the dot not being clean, and the bloom, it must be the equivalent of at least a 10 moa dot and completely washes out any target. Insight was quick to have me send it in to them for testing if anything was wrong with it, and it checked out fine according to them, but for some strange reason they wanted to keep that one and sent me new one. Alas, the new one was exactly the same. This with a true current milspec ITT night enforcer pinnacle auto-gated pvs14. So if the SPARC dot is visible to the naked eye on the low NV setting, I know to wipe that one off the list.
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SVT_Tactical
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the the best of my knowledge and rmemory you had to get in the dark to see the dot on NV mode. I don't think you will have a problem with it at all.
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Scott_at_Vortex
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It is not visible to the naked eye in a pitch dark surrounding. It is a true usable NV setting. Trust me if it wasnt we would not have it there as the extra NV button sometimes is mistaken for the power button.
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Kickboxer
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try closing both eyes using the doubler and see how that works... You had some very good points there, G. Watch it or you wil ruin your "rep"...
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