DNT Thermnight TNC 225r. ----Magnification ?

[Warbucks]

Hi lads
can this 225r be left on 3 magnification on the main screen on thermal sort of all the time and variable magnification on picture in picture with the night vision ? or does both thermal and night vision magnification go together ?

Thanks Dave (warbucks)

 

[mealiejimmy]

I don't have one to hand to check, but I'm pretty sure that changing the magnification always changes the magnification on the main screen and the picture in picture together
I know that you can't change the magnification in the PiP without changing the magnification on the main screen, so you couldn't leave the main screen in thermal on x3 and just change the magnification on the optical image in the PiP

Cheers

Bruce

 

[Warbucks]

I don't have one to hand to check, but I'm pretty sure that changing the magnification always changes the magnification on the main screen and the picture in picture together
I know that you can't change the magnification in the PiP without changing the magnification on the main screen, so you couldn't leave the main screen in thermal on x3 and just change the magnification on the optical image in the PiP

Cheers

Bruce

Ok thanks for the reply Bruce.

I just thought that when on rabbits where there are a few together that this scope with main screen on 3 mag thermal and picture in picture in night vision at say 12 mag would allow you to pick up the rabbits as they scatter after the first shot enabling you to shoot the rest without having to get back to your hand held thermal to re stop them.

Dave (warbucks)

 

[mealiejimmy]

Dave,
I've been using the Thermnight on the rabbits for a few weeks now and for the places we are shooting, its the dogs danglies
Spot with a hand held thermal, shoulder the rifle and you are immediately on what you just spotted - no waving the rifle around until you see eyeshine
The thermal is x3 base mag and the optical is x5 so you could have the thermal at x6 and the optical at x10 in the PiP and shoot using the reticle in the PiP
Using the LRF and ballistic calculator on my 22 with 40g subsonics, 100 yard shots are easy and 120-150 yard shots not unusual
For rabbits under 80 yards I just keep it in base mag with thermal on the main screen for maximum FOV and optical in the PiP to take the shot
I've never needed more than level 1 on the IR power and the IR fills the field of view at my typical shooing distances
Putting the scope into standby between shots means a single 18650 only drops by one or two bars in a 3 hour session
The thermal is not high spec - the thermal image is not good enough to shoot rabbits at any more than around 50-60 yards (although you can detect and recognise them a couple of hundred yards away)
In terms of what a single bit of kit can do, there's nothing else on the market that comes close for anything like the same money.

Cheers

Bruce