Thread: Cheap thermal or night vision

Just thrown a pard nv008 on my .22lr bunny rig. First impressions are good. Sighting in was super easy, it's roughly the same weight as the scope that came off the rifle.
Yet to have it out in total darkness, or put it through it's paces.
It's going to take some getting used to with the scope mounting location - it's a long way back, as the eye relief is about 1"
Optically it's resolution is not as good as a good rifle scope - you are looking at an image on a 800x600 pixel screen. Low light without the IR illuminator is better than a scope for static objects when you are using a bipod, but unsuppported not so good as the refresh rate slows down with diminishing light input.
Flicking on the IR Illuminator got the screen refresh back to where it needed to be.
Will update when I have had time to actually use it in anger.