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Posted: 4/11/2016 3:40:08 PM EDT
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I have been putting together my coyote setup for the past few months. I finally got it built up. How much I get to use it over the next few months remains to be seen with a newborn now in the house though.  Regardless, I had a single pvs 14 matched up with another omni 8 tube and an AB NV Mod 3 built up. What a difference when it comes to navigating and also being able to shoot behind an optic. I actually can get a decent red dot sight picture when under NODS and shoot with a sight picture. The IR hunter mk II is super clear and a bargain for the performance. Helmet is Ops Core base jump with Wilcox g24 mount which is light years over the USGI rhino now sitting on a shelf. EOG LBM counterweight out back. I do have a Princeton tec mpls waiting on an ARC adapter. The illum you can't see on the gun is an inforce WML. I a having a debate about though is the SWR range finder. It is IR so I thought I could get away with making a poor mans Wilcox Raptar. First the good: really bright laser, I have to get some pics through nods to show it but SWR claims it can range over a mile at night (useless but cool at that range for my purposes). The readout is dimmable to the point you can read it easily behind NODS provided you have the focus set and it won't wash out. It also has a slaved red laser. There is a single reading and a continuous range function with 3 distances depending on the strength of the refection. This is where I get tripped up though, more on that in the next paragraph. bad: heavy and tall. 12 o'clock mounting is not recommended. However, the main issue that I was having is that the continuous range function uses intermittent bursts instead of true continuous on. This way when attempting to use it to aim with a laser with NODS it would be very difficult to do. I'd love to have the ranging feature but the continuous function is almost a dealbreaker. I think I may end up switching it out back to my dbal. would have loved to use the ranging feature to be able to sit and scan and spot using a combo of devices and then dial up some dope with subsonics when going behind the thermal with the ranging function. However short of adding a dbal to the setup as well then I'm not sure it would work. Thoughts?   |
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Quoted: Might be me, but I'm only getting the second image. Looks like a nice setup, the DBAL might be the better option if you can't get a constant on otherwise you're loading up the weight. BTW no first pic, just strange imgur coding. |
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Quoted: Might be me, but I'm only getting the second image. Looks like a nice setup, the DBAL might be the better option if you can't get a constant on otherwise you're loading up the weight. |
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I'd lose the range finder. If coyotes are the quarry get accustomed to the reticle and ranging them with that. You are basically shooting to the mpbr of the cartridge anyway, so under 250 it isn't too hard to identify with that scope and some field experience. I'd probably lose the 14's as well and go to a helmet mounted thermal, it is vastly superior to detecting coyotes anyway.
I can understand the 14's for other purposes, but solely for coyotes a helmet thermal is the tits. |
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Lose the range finder. By the time you have ranged and messed with it, you may have missed the change at the shot.
I have no problem taking coyotes without such a device. Hell- I don't even use I2 on 90% of my hunts, just a red/flipper spot light and quality day scope. |
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Quoted: Lose the range finder. By the time you have ranged and messed with it, you may have missed the change at the shot. I have no problem taking coyotes without such a device. Hell- I don't even use I2 on 90% of my hunts, just a red/flipper spot light and quality day scope. |
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