Thread: Night Vision scope

Originally Posted by Spanners

As Gimp said - buy mine!

What you have in a Newcon is a cheap housing (China?) - they are simply rubbish
I had a play with one in the US earlier this year and I initially thought it was a kids toy it was that bad

An 'exportable' Gen 3 tube is going to be pretty low specs, basically same as Gen 2- I have the info here somewhere but cant be arse digging it out

Spanners are you talking about the Newcon NV207-G2+ or Newcon in general ?.
The NV207-G2 is a cheeper Nightvision option and is priced accordingly - but there Gen3 XT is as good as any Gen3 available - to say any 'exportable' Gen 3 is going to have low specs is hardly fair.
I've used the Newcon NV33 Gen 3 was very impressed with the quality of the manufacturing and the clarity tube.

Originally Posted by 300MAG

Spanners are you talking about the Newcon NV207-G2+ or Newcon in general ?.
The NV207-G2 is a cheeper Nightvision option and is priced accordingly - but there Gen3 XT is as good as any Gen3 available - to say any 'exportable' Gen 3 is going to have low specs is hardly fair.
I've used the Newcon NV33 Gen 3 was very impressed with the quality of the manufacturing and the clarity tube.

Newcon housings in general being crap, toy, rubbish...
As Tasbay has quoted - the FOM at max 1250 for Exportable Gen3 is less than that of Gen2 - unfortunately its a fact that the specs are shite.

No offence, maybe you havnt used any good gear??

Originally Posted by Spanners

Newcon housings in general being crap, toy, rubbish...
As Tasbay has quoted - the FOM at max 1250 for Exportable Gen3 is less than that of Gen2 - unfortunately its a fact that the specs are shite.

No offence, maybe you havnt used any good gear??

Well I like to think I have - BUT I've also had the chance to compare several models at once (on a dark cloudy night), one of Tasbays Gen 2+ and yes I was very surprised at the quality compared to a earlier Gen 2+ I had used extensively hunting.
The body's of the NV 7 Gen 3 and the PVS 7 Gen 2+ looked very similar very lightly constructed(but both to military spec) - where as the NVS 33 looked of stronger construction.
And comparing to Gen 2+ and Gen 3 whether its 'FOM 1250' or whatever spec there was NO comparison the Gen 3 by a country mile.

I have used a NVS 33 for over 2 years now got it from Grant at Trueflite. Use it like a spotlight hand held (must get a headmount one day) then when I need to shoot slip it onto my scope, worked very well so far.
100% better that my old Gen 2+ scope mounted on my rifle, very hard to use for spotting had to stop find a rest to get a good look through scope.