Night vision

[A-Aron88]

I'm looking to purchase night vision.
Anyone active here have experience with different devices?

I'm tossing around the idea of a L3 22um WP mono vs AMG NV-40 (gen 3 GP) duals.
Cost is practically the same.

 

[BR8818]

What housing is the l3 in?

 

[sheepdog697]

AGM is going to be the housing manufacturer, not the tubes. L3 is very solid, but you havent mentioned the housing manufacturer for the mono.

Lets start with this:

What is your price range?
What is your intended use?

 

[A-Aron88]

The mono housing would be Carson.

I'd like to keep around the 5k mark for the helmet,, mount and NVD. I figure that should be a very solid starting point.
I don't currently have a place to shoot at night, but I look to purchase property at some point in the future that will allow for that.
For now it'll just be for fun or if I find some night courses.

I've also seen a lot of people speak highly of the Photonis Echo for a budget option. I know they're not as good in complete dark though.

 

[sheepdog697]

The echos are very nice, and have a really nice mixed lighting picture (arguably better than some of the gen 3 stuff). Another budget option is the XLSH line of tubes from Elbeit.

For $5k you can get a seriously nice setup.

Id budget about 1k minimum to outfit a firearm to place nice with your NVGs as well. There are budget options, but i would say $1k would get you setup pretty good.