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Is it difficult to use military night vision goggles at the same time while looking through a rifle scope, or can a rifle scope incorporate night vision?
The answer is yes and yes.
NVG’s are pretty much useless with the existing rifle scope.
The original Cyclopes’ version were useless with a scope. Both eyes ‘saw’ through the single lens that was in the middle of your head. So how do you line that up with your scope or even iron sights.
If you have the ‘monocular’ style, one that goes directly over the eye (or even both eyes)you COULD do it, but you would have to push your optic 6 inches down your rail. At this point your day ‘zero’ would be useless to you. Small changes on the rail, thicker on one side, worn away at the front etc., anything can happen to move your sight enough to mess with your zero.
For the headset style NVGs you are best to set it up with a laser. I’ve seen different patterns you can filter your laser through. This way, I get a star, you get moon, it’s like looking at a box of Lucky Charms.
Can a rifle scope use Night Vision?
Snipers (military and police) mount a night vision scope in front of their day scope. This lets you have a very accurate shot at night.
The problem is your day optic is not meant to be used at night. The light from your NOD (Night Observation Device) will shine on your eye (especially when seen by another NOD)
You can’t walk around with it or look at a map. It’s no good up close or the enmy will see you.
What is the best way to zero in a rifle scope?
The best way, for accuracy and economic use of ammo, would be the following system, assuming you have the equipment and your rifle is already “on paper”:
Step 1: Mount the rifle into a clamp, on a bench rest facing the target. Adjust the clamp until the crosshairs of the scope are right on the bullseye.
Step 2: Load one round into the chamber and fire.
Step 3: Without touching the scope adjustments, re-adjust the clamp/rifle so that the crosshairs are one again on the bullseye, assuming the recoil of the shot bumped the rifle out of place a little.
Step 4: Leaving the clamp and rifle in place now, use the scope adjustments to move the crosshairs from the bullseye to the bullet hole made by the first shot. Depending on range and target type you might need to first approach the target and draw a circle around the bullet hole with a brightly-coloured marker so you can see it through the scope from the bench. Remember that since you’re moving the crosshairs to the point of impact, you need to turn the scope adjustments in the opposite directions as you normally would to move the point of impact towards the bullseye. Now that the crosshairs are right on the point of impact that the current rifle position produces, the rifle is sighted in.
Step 5: To confirm that this all went right, repeat steps 1 and 2: put the crosshairs back on the bullseye by adjusting the rifle and clamp, NOT touching the scope adjustments, and load and fire a second round. It should hit the bullseye. Happy hunting.
Of course if you don’t have a suitable clamp, you’ll have to sight in the conventional way, which is to fire at the target and adjust the scope to bring the point of impact closer to the bullseye a little at a time. Since there is human error involved in each shot, people usually shoot groups of 3 between adjustments to see where the “average” shot is hitting, and even then it’s going to be somewhat approximate. And it uses a lot more ammo.
Regardless of which technique you’re using, of course, you need to be using the ammo load and the range distance that you plan on shooting in the field.
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