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.
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
I don't see how that would work unless there's some piece of gear out there I don't know about, which is highly likely. I'm not real fluent in the high speed low drag market.
Thermal can't penetrate glass so you can't put the thermal behind the PVS ... and PVS gathers ambient light through a phosphor so if you put it behind a thermal then the bright images from the thermal will wash out the PVS.
maybe I'm not understanding the question
Thermal in white-hot mode right eye, white phosphorus PVS-14 left eye was what I'm imagining.
that sounds like an immensely painful headache