NV add on

[TaiRM]

Hello,

After some advice!

I'm selling my thermal as I hardly use it, think it's been used 2 or 3 times. Going to replace it with a nv add on, that I can just leave in my bag and just clip on as needed.

What are good options? I've been looking at the HIK cheetah and the Pulsar forward f455s. My day scopes have high mag, 5-25 or 5-30. Objectives are 50 and 56, though I'm sure all options with fit on that.

 

[DVS1]

I use a Pard007s with IR laser, good vision out past 300m on a S&B PM2 so they work with many differing top end scopes...don't let anyone tell you they won't! Some do work better than others though so always best to test before if possible. I know Bushnell DMR 3-21 definitely doesn't!

I set my scope at 7x mag and the pard at 2x so a total of 14x mag. I used to have the pard at 2.5x mag but brought it down a touch.

I can see and identify deer and other night time beasties quite easily out to 400m

A good IR is key, I use a Ian Sirus IR laser. Hope this helps

 

[Dumb & Dama]

I have a Pulsar F455, the clarity is good but it is suited more to low base mag scopes around 2.5-3x. I have used it on a Zeiss conquest V4 at 6x base mag and it worked okay in a pinch but was not ideal.

Also they are quite a heavy unit on the end of your scope, a Pard rear add on would be better suited to your needs in my opinion and you wouldnt even know it was in your bag. I have not used the HIK Cheetah so i can't comment on that.

 

[Herb64]

For a rear add on you’d be hard pressed to beat the Vulpine MK3. Ugly as hell, no bells or whistles but works very well.

 

[mealiejimmy]

Hello,

After some advice!

I'm selling my thermal as I hardly use it, think it's been used 2 or 3 times. Going to replace it with a nv add on, that I can just leave in my bag and just clip on as needed.

What are good options? I've been looking at the HIK cheetah and the Pulsar forward f455s. My day scopes have high mag, 5-25 or 5-30. Objectives are 50 and 56, though I'm sure all options with fit on that.

With those magnifications on your existing scopes, I would not buy a front add-on - and I wouldn't have a Cheetah under any circumstances
A rear add-on is more likely to work (and much cheaper), although we would need to know what scopes you are using because high end scopes like Swaro and S&B have lens costings that don't allow IR to pass very well reducing the effectiveness of a rear add-on

Cheers

Bruce

 

[tozzybum]

I have a Sytong ht66 on a Hawke Vantage front Ao, and a Solaris srx can see all I need to.
In the past had 007 pard ,equally as capable.
Couple of adapters and itl fit any and all your rifles as you zero the scope not the pard atb

 

[Elvis]

Vulpine v3 works very well and surprisingly, great clarity on my Schmidt pm2 paired with the wraith + would definitely recommend

 

[Len the dog]

I have both a Pard007v and the Ludicrous Lumens Vulpine Mk3, the image quality of the Mk3 is streets ahead of the Pard.

 

[beanieboy]

Yes, I find it difficult to look beyond the Vulpine. I recently freed up one of my rifles with a view to topping it with the Alpex or Arken Zulu, but ended up buying a Hawke Frontier from Uttings for use with the Vulpine. Use it with 3 rifles and find it hard to beat.

 

[TaiRM]

Thanks for the advice so far. I thought about rear add on, but I'm not sure I've got the eye relief for one? Or would it not have much of an effect

 

[TaiRM]

With those magnifications on your existing scopes, I would not buy a front add-on - and I wouldn't have a Cheetah under any circumstances
A rear add-on is more likely to work (and much cheaper), although we would need to know what scopes you are using because high end scopes like Swaro and S&B have lens costings that don't allow IR to pass very well reducing the effectiveness of a rear add-on

Cheers

Bruce

Scopes are mid range. I've got a meopta, which is the 5-30x56. My other is a viper pst, gen 2, 5-25x50

 

[beanieboy]

Thanks for the advice so far. I thought about rear add on, but I'm not sure I've got the eye relief for one? Or would it not have much of an effect

I use the Vulpine with Hawke Frontier, Sidewinder and Endurance and don't have to alter my shooting position with any of them. The Vulpine when mounted is 4cm shorter than the older design Pard 007. The new generation of the 007 are shorter.

 

[Elvis]

My vulpine goes on a Schmidt and bender pm2 5-25-56
And a IOR 6-24-50 very clear on both
So I can imagine it working well on yours

 

[DVS1]

The Pard007s I've found don't impede your eye relief, depending on what calibre you use of course as bigger calibre will recoil more

 

[Len the dog]

I’m using my Vulpine on an Element Optics Titan and the eye relief matches that of the scope, in other words my head is in exactly the same position with or without it.

 

[mealiejimmy]

Scopes are mid range. I've got a meopta, which is the 5-30x56. My other is a viper pst, gen 2, 5-25x50

The Meopta should be OK with a rear add-on.
I'm not so sure about the Vortex.
For some reason, and over a period of many years, there have been lots of reports from people using rear add-ons with Vortex scopes saying that they cannot get the reticle and the image in focus together

Cheers

Bruce

 

[Pete1774]

Hello,

After some advice!

I'm selling my thermal as I hardly use it, think it's been used 2 or 3 times. Going to replace it with a nv add on, that I can just leave in my bag and just clip on as needed.

What are good options? I've been looking at the HIK cheetah and the Pulsar forward f455s. My day scopes have high mag, 5-25 or 5-30. Objectives are 50 and 56, though I'm sure all options with fit on that.

I put an ad for a Pard 007 in the classifieds forum a few days ago if you're interested.

 

[TaiRM]

The Vulpine seems to have received a few votes. I'm going to need to go to a local shop to see if a rear add on will work for my eye relief. I have done a bit of reading about them. I assume that I can just put a few collars on a few different rifles and then just clip the add on to the rifle I want?

 

[Len the dog]

The Vulpine seems to have received a few votes. I'm going to need to go to a local shop to see if a rear add on will work for my eye relief. I have done a bit of reading about them. I assume that I can just put a few collars on a few different rifles and then just clip the add on to the rifle I want?

I live in Teesside, if you want a drive down you are more than welcome to try the Vulpine against the Pard.

 

[beanieboy]

The Vulpine seems to have received a few votes. I'm going to need to go to a local shop to see if a rear add on will work for my eye relief. I have done a bit of reading about them. I assume that I can just put a few collars on a few different rifles and then just clip the add on to the rifle I want?

Yes, suitable collar with a bit of insulating tape to hold it in place. Vulpine can then be mounted in seconds.