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Posted: 5/11/2012 8:30:49 AM EDT
TNVC is now offering FLIR's Government Systems products. What does that mean for you? Well, it means that you can now purchase MIL-SPEC Thermal optics with Hardened cores. For a while, these devices were not available to the public. But, recently, some of the FLIR GS optics have been released for commercial sale.
FLIR Advanced Combat ThermoSight FLIR’s ThermoSight T50 is a clip-on thermal scope designed for short to medium range engagements. Utilizing a quick detach lever, the T50 easily attaches and detaches from standard M1913 Picatinny rails in front of day scopes. This gives the operator the ability to deploy it on multiple weapon platforms without the need to dedicate a thermal scope. It can also be used as a stand-alone weapon scope with a choice of multiple reticle patterns to cycle through. In stand-alone mode, the T50 can act as a 1X optic or utilize the 2X or 4X electronic zoom. This system is manufactured by FLIR’s Government Systems division and is designed for hard use. The thermal core is fully hardened to MILSPEC and made completely in the U.S. The T50 provides extreme versatility for the modern Warfighter and Law Enforcement Professional. The T50 ThermoSight can be used as a hand-held thermal scope or clip-on device for weapon use. It is fully calibrated to maintain boresight with the host day scope. So, there is no point of aim/ point of impact shift when it is attached or detached from a weapon. The T50 is designed primarily for the M4/M16 platform due to its compatibility with short-mid range optics. It is especially well-suited for the Trijicon ACOG, coming equipped with a special adapter interface sleeve for this optic. But, it works well with any 4X optic. We do not recommend going much higher than 4X with the T50 because you will begin to lose resolution. The highest we could go was between 5-6X with a Nightforce NXS 2.5-10×32 before focus could not be achieved. But, 4X works likes a charm! The height of the T50 allows it to easily see over 12 o’clock-mounted laser modules. The controls are placed on the 9 o’clock side and easily accessible to right-handed shooters. After a few minutes of working with the T50, the control buttons become easy enough to navigate without looking. A footprint dock for a backup mini red dot sight is located on top of the unit and is compatible with standard Doctor sight base styles. The T50 Advanced Combat ThermoSight offers weapon sight functionality at a reasonable price compared to other systems on the market. Its multiple weapon use applications and handheld capability make it a truly unique device. As to be expected from a Government System, the T50 is built like a tank. We are very impressed with the capabilities of this system and the price point. For under $10K, you can have a MILSPEC Clip-On Thermal Scope. The resolution of the system means you want to keep it at about 4X. This version of the T50 is available for commercial sale because it lacks the integrated laser. Government models are available with integrated IR and visible lasers. http://www.tnvc.com/shop/flir-advanced-combat-thermosight-t50/ FLIR Recon M24 Thermal Pocket Scope The FLIR RECON M24 Monocular is a rugged, lightweight thermal pocket scope. Designed as a multi-use pocket scope, the M24 fits in the palm of your hand. It’s fully Mil-Spec, hardened housing means the thermal core is highly protected against field abuse. The M24 is a small, no-frills thermal scope. It was developed to provide individual thermal capability to Warfighters and Law Enforcement Professionals. Size and weight are of the utmost importance, so extra features like image capture and recording were left out. The M24 is a thermal imager through and through. The Recon M24 has easy-to-use controls that allow new operators to quickly master its capabilities. The objective lens is factory set to a fixed focal plane, leaving only the diopter lens open to adjustment. Power is controlled with a lockable rotating dial that exposes the brightness control wheel when open. In fact, the clever layout of the controls adds a lot to the easy user interface. The RECON M24 is one of the handiest little thermal imagers available. For the price and size, there is no comparison with other models on the market, especially because the M24 features a hardened Mil-Spec thermal core. All internal components are made right here in the US. One of our favorite aspects of the M24 is the control layout. The innovative control scheme is highly intuitive, keeping the functions locked when the unit is turned off. The fixed focal plane keeps focusing the unit quick and easy. Another really nice feature is the hot-swappable batteries. You can change the batteries one at a time without killing power. As mentioned already, the M24 is designed as a small pocket scope. The 19mm lens is small and does not offer a lot of range, but can easily detect people out to 300 yards. The M24 is a great option for rugged environments. Two versions are available 320 x 240 http://www.tnvc.com/shop/flir-recon-m24-320x240/ 640 x 480 http://www.tnvc.com/shop/flir-recon-m24-640x480/ http://www.tnvc.com/ |
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Does the FLIR’s ThermoSight T50 interface with a 552 NV Eotech as well as the ACOG?
Also, would it work well in front of a Leopold VX-R 1-4X Pig Plex scope mounted on low rails? I would like to get one of these, if I can use it on both of my current rifle setups! |
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Does the FLIR’s ThermoSight T50 interface with a 552 NV Eotech as well as the ACOG? Also, would it work well in front of a Leopold VX-R 1-4X Pig Plex scope mounted on low rails? I would like to get one of these, if I can use it on both of my current rifle setups! Yes, and Yes |
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Hot dog, You just made my day!
I am scheming now to get one this fall.... |
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Order placed... Thanks for the order Brother! Bear with us as we re-open on Monday and process all orders received today through the weekend. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_2_209/220245_TNVC_CLOSED_ON_6_1_2012___Re_OPEN_ON_6_4_12.html Thanks again. Vic |
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Vic -> This FLIR T-50 thermal definitely is a keeper. Have only had it three days and already took out four coyotes with it to 225 yards. What a major game changer this instrument is for night hunting. It works absolutely fantastic with an Eotech and 3X magnifier. This one checked out at 190 yards and the Barnes 70 grain TSX went right through his shoulder where I was aiming. http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T50/T50%20Coyote%20NV.jpg http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T50/T50%20Coyotr%20Light.jpg Oh NICE! |
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This was a particularly exciting hunt that had the adrenaline going strong for about 45 minutes.
I first called this dog in using Bay Bee Cottontail on my FoxPro Prairie Blaster and he came right in about twenty feet from my Jack Attack decoy but I was on top of a ridge and all I could see was his head popping up in front of me about 60 feet in front of me. I had his head in my sight two or three times and then my wife walked up from behind me to tell me she was going shopping and he took off….he circled the dry prairie pond in front of me and went deep into the tall dog-fennels so I could not see him. He came out of the fennels trotting across my view twice but each time I held off waiting for him to stop for a lethal shot. I called him back in again using Pup Distress and had a nice shot at him straight in front of me about 75 yards and squeezed the trigger slowly and CLICK -> no shell in the chamber. Chambered a round and he took off into the distant tree line. I went back into the house to get my A-Alpha helmet and PVS-14 on and as soon as I walked off the carport I could see two distinct dark contrasted shapes out to my game cam about 250 yards. I slowly snuck down to my log stand setup and looked through the FLIR T-50 Thermal and saw two nice dogs @ 175 yards in front of me beside the game cam tree munching on some wild boar offal I had dumped there last weekend. For some reason, one dog took off and went into the tree line and I lost him, but this one walked on over behind the game cam and stopped @ 185-190 yard behind my game cam (game cam tree is laser measured 175 yards), I put the crosshairs on him and he dropped. When he did, the other one came charging out of the woods and hightailed it across my view. The whole hunt took about 45 minutes and I just wish I had the micro Digital Video Recorder hooked up to the FLIR thermal because I would have had some fantastic recording of this hunt. |
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Here is a two minute 5MB WMV video I made tonight with the FLIR T-50 of a sounder group that was in a pond surrounded by a tall stand of dog fennels and weeds, I had to wait patiently for two hours to get a good shot.
Thank God for my ThermaCell as the skeets were trying to eat me alive. Took out one of the sows with a hand-loaded Barnes 70 grain TSX from my SIG 556 using the Eotech 552 and 3X Magnifier @ 80 yards, The 325 pound sow goes down with the first shot and stays down, but I shot her once more for insurance since she was in two feet of muck. I was up to my knees in mud hooking up the tow line from the ATV to get her out of there. The FLIR T-50 that Vic from TNVC sold me is a solid instrument the definitely brings home da bacon.... http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T50/Dead%20Hog%20WEB2.wmv |
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Rolled a large hog with a lung shot @ 150 yards tonight through the FLIR T-50 Thermal, he ran off looking pretty good so will go out looking for him in the morning....
I sighted in my new ACOG TA02 LED 4X32 with the visible green laser earlier this evening, so will print some paper with it tomorrow too. http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/ACOG%20TO2/Hog%20Down.wmv I was looking through an ACOG TA02 LED lighted reticule 4X32 behind the thermal and had the thermal internal reticules turned off, so I was seeing the same thing as the video except for 4X larger through the crosshairs. I finished targeting the new ACOG this morning, five rounds through the 1 inch bullseye @ 100 yards. It was shooting about 2 inches high and 2 inches to the left prior to targeting it in today so I probably was off that amount or a little more on the hog last night as I had only co-witnessed the ACOG using the visible green laser when I got it last night via UPS. It is ON TARGET NOW! Just got back from dragging him out of the woods with the ATV, he made it almost 200 yards or so through the woods before he was exsanguinated. |
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Rolled a large hog with a lung shot @ 150 yards tonight through the FLIR T-50 Thermal, he ran off looking pretty good so will go out looking for him in the morning.... I sighted in my new ACOG TA02 LED 4X32 with the visible green laser earlier this evening, so will print some paper with it tomorrow too. http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/ACOG%20TO2/Hog%20Down.wmv I was looking through an ACOG TA02 LED lighted reticule 4X32 behind the thermal and had the thermal internal reticules turned off, so I was seeing the same thing as the video except for 4X larger through the crosshairs. I finished targeting the new ACOG this morning, five rounds through the 1 inch bullseye @ 100 yards. It was shooting about 2 inches high and 2 inches to the left prior to targeting it in today so I probably was off that amount or a little more on the hog last night as I had only co-witnessed the ACOG using the visible green laser when I got it last night via UPS. It is ON TARGET NOW! Just got back from dragging him out of the woods with the ATV, he made it almost 200 yards or so through the woods before he was exsanguinated. 70gr TSX again? Glad he dropped dead a no so far away! Vic |
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Nice Sow and eleven piglets showed up again tonight but let them go for now as I am after a nicer boar hog: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/ACOG%20TO2/Sow%20&%20Piglets.jpg http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/ACOG%20TO2/Sow%20&%20Piglets3.jpg The black hot looks VERY sharp in this pic. My guess we're seeing slight blooming of the camera device with the white hot stills. Vic |
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It is pretty hot and very humid here now, Vic.
Any exposed ground without vegetation covering it is hot, as are quite a few of the tree trunks. The difference between the ambient temperature of about 80-85*F to the hogs body temp is not that great to begin with. I can't wait until this fall when things cool down, there should be much greater differentiation of the temperature gradient by then too. |
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Was out hog hunting tonight on my stand in the backyard and three nice boars were about 75 yards out from me and I was about to pull the trigger on them when I saw another thermal register in the far off distance and lo and behold it was a lone coyote sneaking in.
I first picked up the coyote and recognized it as a coyote @ 350 yards and waited until it came in for about two minutes with the hogs rooting up in front of me. Let the coyote have a Barnes 70 grain TSX at 200 yards and knocked him down, he got back up and shot him down for good. The hogs all let out a good squeal and headed out to the swamp. The ACOG 4X32 TA02 and FLIR thermal is a really sweet night hunting setup, very pleased with the performance of the thermal instrument and the ACOG optic! Here is a 7.5MB WMV video of the coyote kill: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/ACOG%20TO2/Thermal%20Coyote%20Web.wmv |
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The FLIRs have a built in mount for the Trijicon RMR red dot sights, so I installed the 3 MOA LED RM01 model for CQB: http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/Trijicon%20RMR/FLIR%20T50%20Trijicon%20RMR%20Right.jpg http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/Trijicon%20RMR/Trijicon%20RMR%20Sight%20View.jpg Good setup there! Thanks for sharing. Vic |
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The RMR Red Dot works way better than I had anticipated!
I have the 720nm IR Filter on the objective lens of the PVS-14 hanging over my left eye off my helmet and can see the NV environment real well and with my right eye I can simultaneously see a nice red dot that looks like a visible laser but isn't! Makes for a really great situational awareness with the NV and using my dark adapted eye to the RMR Red Dot! Looking through the RMR with the PVS-14 with the 720nm IR filter on I cannot see the dot at all, but taking the filter off I get a good blooming green dot that blooms about the same as my 0.7mW IR laser does out of the DBAL-D2 without the IR Illuminator on. In other words, it is not too good through the PVS-14 NV as it blooms a little too much. But using it with my dark adapted eye it works real good and real fast. Pretty neat, I was not expecting this to be able to be used at night at all... |
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Gotta love thermal when one cannot see much with a standard Gen 3 device.Good story and shootin'!
Vic |
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Right On, Vic, we would have never even noticed this hog with the NVO, in fact I was standing less than 50 feet from it hoping to shoot it with the DBAL-D2 laser and IR Illum and could not even see it's jet black contrast in the thick underbrush, was not even sure what it was until I turned on the FLIR-50 and could see an entire hog standing there in the dense darkness.
Thermal has its place for sure and is a total game changer when you need it, we would have never seen, shot, or recovered this hog without it. |
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Those damn piggies just aren't getting it in your neck of the woods!
Vic |
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Those damn piggies just aren't getting it in your neck of the woods! Vic haha, they sure are NOT getting that we have excellent NV and Thermal but they sure ARE getting the Barnes 70gr TSXs! The combination of the LDI DBAL-D2 and the FLIR T-50 on my SIG 556 is absolutely fantastic, none of them are getting out alive.... |
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Now that ambient temperatures have fallen into the 40's & 50's, instead of the 80's & 90's the FLIR T-50 has really come onto its own with a 100% increase in both range and resolution making accurate head shots out to 250 yards a piece of cake. This instrument is God's gift to nighttime vermin destruction, virtually nothing gets out of here alive, nothing..... I usually stalk out to keep them within 100 yards or so, but can easily reach out past 200 yards if need be. I am beyond pleased with this very fine instrument, it is a first class Zombie destroyer! They never knew what hit them... http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T50/T50%20Boar/Hog%20Hanging.jpg Awesome, HANG em HIGH! |
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When I got home from work, a Male Bald Eagle was eating my coyote! http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20Vision/FLIR%20T50/T50%20Coyote/Eagle1.jpg Blow up pic of this would be great! victor at tnvc dot com Awesome pic Brother. Vic |
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Eagle dining on two coyotes and an armadillo. FLIR T-50 feeds Eagles! http://www.phossil.com/thom/Game%20Cam/Eagle%20Coyote1.jpg Hi-Res PLEASE! victor at tnvc dot com Vic |
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