Posted: 3/5/2011 11:16:15 AM EDT
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A company called Yukon sells several gen 1 night vision scopes and say that they have a life time warrenty
Does anyone have any experience with these scopes or have any opinnion about cheep NV scopes? (p.s. I can not spell) |
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The Yukon Gen 1 isn't terrible for the price. Without the IR on you can see pretty well out to about 30yds, with the IR on you can see great out to 60-70yds and you could identify stuff out to 100 or so. I think if you had a good IR torch then you could extend that distance out a bit.
It's nowhere close to Gen 3, but if that's what's in your price range and you're not expecting miracles from it I think it's a decent buy for $400-500. BTW....cheapest place to buy it right now is opticsplanet. No tax and no shipping. |
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not a hunter or killer yet but I aim to. This scope would definitely help out if you have a good place to go with hogs. It's very easy to stalk up on hogs at night using NV, 50X easier than in the day. David and I stalked up to about 15 yards of this one and a bunch of others using NV. He never knew we were there. 
You could also stand hunt over a feeder 50yds away or closer and you should have a perfect view of them. Good luck! |
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yukon gen 1 videos from youtube so you can see what they look like.
yukon gen 1 =============================== gen 3 d760 night vision videos (just to compare) am not suggesting you buy $4000 night vision but you can take a look. -============================= have you thought about just getting a gun mounted flashlight if you are hunting a field or over a stand? |
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yukon gen 1 videos from youtube so you can see what they look like. snip..... There is a world of difference between the russian gen1 NV and the US gen3. You can spot and identify deer hundreds of yards out with a d740 and d760 without a torch and you'd be lucky to even see something moving at half of those distances with the Yukon scope with the IR on but for a cheap starter scope, it's not absolutely terrible and would absolutely work fine at shorter distances. Just don't plan on making any 200 or 300 yard shots with it. When it comes to NV you get what you pay for. |
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I went to www.tacticalhogcontrol.com in june 2010 and used the d760s they had. WOW. Superman vision. I understand the price tag. Have looked at the gen1 videos online and I dont think they will do much more than my 350 lumen Olight warrior does for me (with or without the lense). There are situations when I see how the gen1 could help me out some (like MAYBE being able to spot some hidden along tree line). Where I hunt in big fields with a lot of light I will see the hogs anyway... range is 20 to 200+ yards. This is too hard to explain. i also hang the cheap 7 led flashlights in the trees along the field to alert me if a shadow passes by I can start to look. Just to clarify, the gen1 might be of some value to me... but I am not sure how much. |
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I went to www.tacticalhogcontrol.com in june 2010 and used the d760s they had. WOW. Superman vision. I understand the price tag. Have looked at the gen1 videos online and I dont think they will do much more than my 350 lumen Olight warrior does for me (with or without the lense). There are situations when I see how the gen1 could help me out some (like MAYBE being able to spot some hidden along tree line). Where I hunt in big fields with a lot of light I will see the hogs anyway... range is 20 to 200+ yards. This is too hard to explain. i also hang the cheap 7 led flashlights in the trees along the field to alert me if a shadow passes by I can start to look. Just to clarify, the gen1 might be of some value to me... but I am not sure how much. The only thing NV has over a big bright light is that it's invisible to the animals so it gives you the element of surprise. Try stalking up on a bunch of hogs in the middle of the night using a light without them noticing you, you can't do it, but you can with even very crude NV since you're in so close. For what you're doing then Gen1 might not work well, but for other things that others might want to do, you couldn't do it with visible light. Plus, some people just get a kick out of hunting with NV even if it's not the good stuff. Sure everyone would like to be running autogated D740/760's but it's just not practical for everyone to spend that much money on an optic. For people on a budget that are wanting to get into the NV game it's better than nothing and can work just as well as Gen3 if you understand the limitations it has, which is the very limited range and loss of clarity. |
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The only thing NV has over a big bright light is that it's invisible to the animals so it gives you the element of surprise. Try stalking up on a bunch of hogs in the middle of the night using a light without them noticing you, you can't do it, but you can with even very crude NV since you're in so close. For what you're doing then Gen1 might not work well, but for other things that others might want to do, you couldn't do it with visible light. Plus, some people just get a kick out of hunting with NV even if it's not the good stuff. Sure everyone would like to be running autogated D740/760's but it's just not practical for everyone to spend that much money on an optic. For people on a budget that are wanting to get into the NV game it's better than nothing and can work just as well as Gen3 if you understand the limitations it has, which is the very limited range and loss of clarity. I have been considering gen1 night vision to play with because of the low entry point price and if you know what to expect when you purchase and have realistic expectations of what it can do.... you can be happy (from what I have read). and you can spot hogs and shoot them. you are right about the flashlights and bright lights... i have a red lense and the red cellophane paper works better than my red lense (hogs can still see red... just not as good as bright white light). too many projects on my plate right now. spent much of day double tapping one of my cardboard hogs from different distances with my Romanian PSL and ar15 223 both free hand and from primos monopod. |