Today is inauguration day. A sacred day that every American should hold dear. This is a culmination of our democratic process that proves our system of government is the only government where our citizens choose our leaders from the best choices available and in no way could be manipulated by outside forces to sway the outcome in their favor.
There is no room for argument that the two best choices to lead this great nation are
- A lifelong politician who is bought and paid for by China, gets his family lucrative overseas business deals by abusing the powers of his office, who wants our Federal Reserve to prioritize income equality over job creation and curbing inflation, and who will appoint only LGBTQ+ PoC to cabinet positions regardless of qualification.
and
- A wealthy reality TV star who can't keep his mouth shut when he should, claims to be pro-2A but wants to take your guns first and have due process later and also bans mechanisms for shooting guns faster than your finger can pull the trigger even though it's still your finger pulling the trigger, reminds us who is our greatest ally, and played the victim game until the very end.
Surely this is result of a purely democratic selection process and in no way was orchestrated by the rich and powerful as a way to maintain control of the lowly citizens.
carry on friends, ask some gun related questions while I continue to live in willingly ignorant bliss.
Can any of you talk me down from binocular night vision, to the less expensive monocular nv?
Or justify the binos?
desired use makes a big difference. If you're actually using them for patrol then that's a way different discussion than wanting to get rid of some pests around the barn at night.
I think i get the jist of your answer.
The main application is to not be completely defenseless at night, not plinking coyotes.
You know what they say about women and image intensifier vacuum tubes, "One is fun, but two will blow your mind"
Similar proportional effect on my bank account though.
I occasionally use my PVS-14 for night hunting and it stays on the shelf for emergency use at all other times. If I bought a PVS-7 for triple the cost, I would feel a lot worse looking at it setting unused thinking about all the ammo I could have bought with the cost difference. but you may feel differently
my desired use matched the PVS-7 because I can acquire targets in the dark and then shoot them and that's all I really care about.
if my desired use case was to actively patrol a landscape and maintain vision in both eyes while searching for targets, then stealthily approach the targets, then acquire the target and then shoot the target, then I would be better suited for binos.
in fact, a thermal scope is a better choice for me as opposed to a helmet and NVG and NV compatible optic and targeting laser+illuminator. I didn't go thermal because of the cost and then I'm limited to just the one gun at night.
Is a PVS-14 plus a thermal viable for a helmet-mounted setup? Will the images superimpose over each other like a prism optic reticle, giving the best of both worlds? It seems like it would either work or be disorientating