Teaching a dummy about night shooting equipment

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Head Up display Digi systems:
Build your own £100-£250.
Shed Built, by a man in his shed making a few a week and then offering them to the public/mates, £200-£300. Often as good if not better than Commercial offerings.
Then there are commercial Head Up systems, which might be found in gunshops or online. Generally considered expensive for what they are.

In Line display Digi systems:
The in line part is far more difficult to do and the small screens a lot more expensive. Requires compatible scope, as all ad on do; parallax.
Several commercial flops in the past where performance was pants... Atom.
Best at present being the WDV 800.
Look out for second hand WDV 700's as they are still excellent.

Lastly, digi dedicated units. Some comercial ones aren't that good. Best with high ticket price is the Drone Pro.
Dedicated forums out there so get researching.

Do not buy NV from an supplier from Gt Yarmouth

[Pugsley]

Thank you everybody for your replies and I appreciate that some are very detailed and that considerable effort was put in to bring me up to speed. I've since bumped in to a You Tube video on build your own night vision setup which I'm considering but I've also visited some sites looking at today's version of scope mounted lamp setups - they have moved on a bit from when I bought what I have at the moment. My firearm variation should be through this week so will be buying an FAC S510, scope, bottle plus some lighting when I've made up my mind which way to go. The transition from the type of shooting I've grown up with (0.17 HMR and various shotguns) to air rifle has been quite daunting but I'm getting their.

Thanks

[angrybear]

If you're considering a NV add-on system then the scope can make a huge difference, if you trawl the NV section you'll find threads recommending some over others.
Worth thinking about if you're buying a new set up.

[phil384]

I took advice from here including from Cameron (jax13) and built my own from scratch without skimping. It cost me around £100 and is awesome. I'm very impressed by the quality of the image.


If I can do it, you can. It's cheap, satisfying to make and works a treat.