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Yes I have NV
My NV is helmet mounted and I will not be mounting it on the gun
I'm have a 14.5" carbine that I'm setting up with a laser
I was going to use a LPVO on it for my optic, but I see most people using red dots. I was just curious how come I don't see more LPVO on carbines when people use NODs.
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This is were the rubber hits the road.
If you run a dot then there is usually enough room behind it to run a PVS-14 passive when needed. This is handy for zeroing a laser and also for validating zero even if you never shoot with the MNVD weapon mounted.
Dots are decent Bindon Concept aiming references if you have a laser failure.
Dots are good aiming references if you are doing NV to white light dynamic transitions.
The primary concept is in keeping the nature of the gun constant through different light levels - fast through a complicated environment with the dot in the daytime, fast through a complicated environment with the laser and NV in the dark, fast through a complicated environment with the red dot and white light in transitions.
If I felt the need for the LPVO it would be in the DMR role and I would put a clip-on in front of it. If I needed to run an LPVO for dynamic white light transitions then I would consider capping the objective and running it Bindon style so I didn't spend excessive time trying to align the target and reticle.