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The Yukon Photon X T night
vision scope with mini
camcorder (the lit tle box at tached
closest to camera). 2. A rabbit
recorded through the Yukon
riflescope at Malabar one recent
windy evening.2
Rabbit in the night vision
scope.Night Vision
I’D been having some casual
conversations with Goran
Pehar, prime mover at
Extravision, which imports the
excellent Vortex range of
riflescopes, binoculars and
spotting scopes. Goran is an
enthusiast, who is training for
a long range field/tactical shoot
in Wanaka, NZ, as I write this.
He is a keen F-Class competitor
and Extravision is a generous
sponsor of NRAA-based target
competitions in Australia.
Onto those casual
conversations. Goran had been
introducing me to the idea of
night vision products for pest
control shooting and had sent
me some excellent vision of his
pig destruction missions in
southern Queensland of late.
Now I’m a bit of fan of the HID
spotlight for night shooting and
thought that night vision was in
the realm of sci-fi or special ops
in Afghanistan, but obviously
Goran is way ahead of me.
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And the practicalities of pest control.
office with three items in it,
one a Yukon Photon XT Night
Vision fixed power riflescope,
the others a miniature Newton
CVR640 video recorder as well
as a nifty Infra-red (IR) torch,
with which you can
independently boost the 150
metre range of the laser-IR
capable riflescope. The video
recorder can be easily mounted
via an integral picatinny rail
on top of the scope and simply
tightened with a thumbwheel.
Distinct from most IR scope
setups is the fact that the XT
can be used in daylight, by
switching off the IR capability,
so use in daylight will not
damage the IR cell.
Now I have been grabbing
bites of time in a busy life to
familiarise myself with firstly
the capabilities and also the
way these space-age products
work. One thing I have yet to do
is mount the XT on a rifle,
rather I have just been out to the
range at night playing with thevideo mounted scope, observing
rabbits and foxes going about
their business unconcerned.
Readers will be pleased to
know that I finally have some
usable, if grainy, images with
which to show you some sight
pictures.
My next step will be to
mount the outfit on my .223 CZ
Varminter and zero the scope
using the push-button controls,
whose adjustments appear in
the sight picture. Adjustments
are in whole MoA, but shooting
out to 150 metres, no rabbit’s
going to complain about being
three-quarters of an inch off
the centre of his head.
I have stocked up on AA and
AAA batteries and I am looking
forward to sending some
unsuspecting feral to its maker
with this outfit that is now
accessible to the common man
from hunters keen to be part of
the solution.