#(i have worn glasses for the majority of my life and cannot function without them)

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

ok so my second semester has started in full swing, meaning i don't have time to actually make any fanworks for @mcytphysicaldisabilityweek but i WANT TO SO BAD. so today i'm telling you all about my hcs about empires!sausage and vision impairment.

so this hc spawned from a joke sausage made in jimmy's season 2 episode 13 (around the 9 minute mark) while they're searching for the warden fwhip gave as a "present". he refers to his free cam as his "detachable eye" and this offhanded joke kinda spiraled in my mind.

so s1 sausage gets into a very bad fight when he's in his late teens/early 20s. the injuries are very severe, and one particularly bad one results in the loss of his left eye. he gets a glass eye after this, but it's solely an aesthetic thing, it is not a visual prosthetic and does not supplement his vision in any way, as that technology/magic (it's weird in empires, it's inherently weird in any world where magic just Exists) either doesn't exist or isn't particularly developed yet. i haven't decided which it is but either way he does not have a bionic eye/visual prosthetic.

he only has the one glass eye, which perfectly matches his natural eye color (he's got the money to make it a really nice one, as king). when he starts to be overtaken by the corruption, however, his right eye starts turning red. this means it no longer matches the glass eye. after he gets kicked out of the wra and goes Full Evil he says "hm, fuck it" and starts wearing an eye patch instead. he thinks the red eye looks cooler if it's not offset by the blue one. once again, this man values aesthetics over all else. he could always get a red eye made, but he decides not to, he's too busy with Evil Plans and the like.

after blood sausage + good boy sausage get separated, good boy sausage goes back to wearing the glass eye immediately. in his mind, people associate the lack of it+the eye patch with him being evil, so he doesn't want to wear them (and like, people don't not associate that with blood sausage, but they also wouldn't have begrudged him for wearing it. he's just got! a lot of insecurities and issues! but i digress).

blood sausage obviously uh. can't access any tech in The Void and even when he makes his way into his own world, he sticks to the eye patch cause, like, why would he do anything different. he thinks he looks sick as fuck (he's right). in my mind he's got one of these cool decorative ones like this lady shows off on her social media:

anyways. s2 sausage also injures his eye resulting in the scar+vision impairment, though his injury happens when he's a child (like, 7-10 years old). it's not an injury from some sort of weapon like s1 sausage. i'm thinking, like, a rock or a tree branch or something else a small child is liable to get near and hurt themselves with. by the time this happens to him, however, it's been 1,000 years and something akin to the bionic eyes/visual prosthetics we have in the real world have been developed (though not exactly like the real world ones, as from what i understand, patients only qualify for them irl if the vision damage is in both eyes. which, with how different the vision is in a bionic eye than a normal eye, makes sense but. i don't care i wanna give more characters visual impairments because more characters SHOULD have cannon visual impairments. anyways.)

so he gets a visual prosthetic akin to a bionic eye but adjusted for. yknow. existing in a world where there's magic. vision in his left eye is not completely restored, ala a bionic eye in the real world, but it does help him get a limited scope of vision in that eye back.

however, when blood sausage+s2 sausage merge, this is a very big jump for blood sausage. he's never had vision in that eye before, and suddenly having it, even if it's not to the same scope as their right eye, is extremely off putting and difficult to get used to. for a while, the two of them cut a deal in order to allow blood sausage to get used to the additional sensory input. while sausage has had this for like, 30 years of his life at this point, and is used to doing everything with it, he's willing to wear an eye patch while not doing particularly strenuous or dangerous activities (during which he'd need the full extent of his vision so he doesn't hurt himself) in order to give blood sausage a break from the stimulation as he gets used to the change. he's already getting used to so much by issue of being in a different body than his own, and one that like... ages and shit too, so they work out a way to accommodate the changes. idk man i just think they're neat.

[alarawriting]

Inktober #8: Frail

This was delayed a day because it’s longer than any of the others. Relates to my WIP “No Drama”, aka “Q is an investigative journalist researching whether God is a corrupt politician of his people”. 

So the first thing I need to explain before I tell you about meeting Heph is his name.

Humans call me John Deer (it’s a joke. Their name for a man who has no name is John Doe, but a doe is a female deer. I don’t technically have one of their genders, strictly speaking, and if you go by the body I’m in, it’s not female, so I thought I’d go by John Deer. Turns out the joke’s on me; add a silent e to the name and it’s a company that makes tractors. Go figure.)  However, as I hope would be obvious, that’s not my real name. The Aleph don’t have physical bodies and aren’t made of matter and the pure information we are made of doesn’t translate to syllables you or anything that makes sound can pronounce. If I were to translate my name, it would be impossibly long to convey in words; an Aleph’s name is, essentially, a hash function of our personality, the defining nature of our being. I’m not going to stand here and recite my entire personality to you, or anyone else’s entire personality, either, and don’t expect any other Aleph to do so.

So when we walk among pre-eschatonic species, we generally go by the names of gods in their language, or animals of symbolic value (which on most planets, for many groups on that planet, are indistinguishable from gods), or Virtue Names like “Patience” (that one is definitely not mine). And then, when we speak to one another with our meat mouths because we’re in meat bodies, we use those names, the use-names specific for that planet, that culture, that language. On Earth, in English-speaking languages (as well as a significant number of the other ones), I’m known to other Aleph as Fox, Ferret or Weasel, depending on their current opinion of me. My opponent goes by the Lion, or the Ape. But Heph doesn’t use animal names; for the past several hundred years, when he walked on this planet, he called himself Hephaestus. The Greek God of engineering, smithing and invention – technology, in other words – who also happened to be crippled. I think it would be hard to find a myth better suited to be Heph’s use-name.

You see, Heph was born damaged. (We aren’t “born” like you’re born, messy screaming infants coming out of a parent’s orifices. A seed is woven by an entire team of Aleph who’ve chosen to procreate and gotten permission to do so, and then that seed grows fractally. So we are a little less random than spinning the Wheel of Sperm and Ova like you guys do… but not much less random.) By the time he was grown enough that anyone was able to notice the damage, it was too late to correct him without making major changes to his essence, and most Aleph would have to be dying before they’d consent to that (if then. Personally I’d rather die.) It’s hard to explain what the problem is to a non-Aleph, so I need to draw an analogy. In essence… his bandwidth is too low. He cannot quickly upload anything to the Host, and he doesn’t have the storage capacity for the energy we draw down to do our reality-altering things. Where the rest of us are gods, Heph is barely a guardian spirit.

Back when we were both living in the Host most of the time, I am… ashamed to admit that I overlooked Heph, the way almost all the Aleph do. He can’t join with one of us – well, he can, but it’s shallow because of his low bandwidth. Not to be crude about it but it’s as if one of your males was trying to make love to a woman with the vaginal depth of a tea saucer. It… doesn’t do a lot for most Aleph. He can’t participate in most of the things we do because he can’t store enough energy to do it. So he isolates himself from us, and we let him do it because we’re all kind of at a loss as to how you include a guy who can’t do 90% of what you take for granted.

Heph, however, is very smart. All Aleph are by human standards, but Heph is by our standards. So he found a way around the problem.

When I met him on Earth, I was dying in a gutter. I’d been sentenced to a decade of being locked down to a single mortal body, and since I’d been on Earth when they grabbed me and put me on trial, it was Earth they sent me back to. Specifically, Victorian England. Naked, and with no money. Or antibodies. I ended up in a workhouse, where as you can imagine I did fantastically well since I’ve always been so eager to do pointless busywork and follow orders. The main punishment for disobedience was not being fed, followed by being held in a cell for a day and then given clothes that were supposed to shame you. I had no sense of shame, but I got a lot less food than the body I was in needed, and I was surrounded by people who were not in the best health. When I couldn’t work anymore and I was delirious with fever, they threw me out to be picked up with the rest of the refuse, assuming I’d be dead by morning.

Heph was on Earth too. He tracked me down, using technology he’d created. That’s Heph’s thing. He creates technology to compensate for his weaknesses. We have safeguards against anyone or anything but a recognized member of the Host drawing on power, so his tech can’t do all the shiny things a full-powered Aleph can, but we have plenty of access protocols to reach the database of knowledge. So he was able to find me. No Aleph was supposed to render me aid, but Heph was not afraid of pulling the cripple card to get away with doing anything he’d been forbidden to do that he nonetheless decided was the right thing to do. He may be one of the smartest of us, but most Aleph treat him as if he’s not particularly bright, just because he can’t output his thoughts as fast as the rest of us, or fork himself and multi-process. And he made sure not to give me any aid that only an Aleph would be capable of. He fed me bread mold, a powerful antibiotic – you know it as penicillin – that humans happened to not have discovered yet, and pumped sugar, water and saline solution directly into my veins with a sterile glass tube ending in a needle, which humans would later refer to as an IV once they’d invented it. It was all with materials that could be found on Earth, that humans could have discovered (and in fact did, later on.)

I didn’t know my sentence was for a decade. Nobody had told me there was a time limit. I thought they’d left me on Earth to die. Heph restored meaning to my life. The Host as a whole may have abandoned me, but one specific Aleph still cared, and went well out of his way to take care of me. Heph’s not known for being a fluffy, love and compassion kind of guy; he’s cold, aloof, introverted, with difficulty outputting his emotions in a format most Aleph can read, and his shallow bandwidth means that if an Aleph tried to probe him directly, it would cause him a lot of pain. Which, since we are a compassionate species, meant no one was allowed to probe him without his permission. Which he never gave.

In those days, Heph had been tall and broad-shouldered, still going with the whole blacksmith motif. He was never ripped like a bodybuilder, but his upper body had some substantial muscle to it. He’d affected black curly hair and bronze skin like the Greeks he’d named himself for. And he’d worn thick spectacles and walked with a cane. I’m not sure whether he does it on purpose or whether it’s a subconscious compulsion, but every body Heph creates for himself in matter has damage to mobility and damage to perception, representing what he suffers in his true form. I tend to think Heph identifies so strongly with being disabled, he can’t imagine having a form that isn’t.

Ten years before I’d even learned the sentence was finite. Heph had known, but hadn’t been allowed to tell me – and while obviously he thought he could get away with saving my life and being my companion and showing me how to survive as a human, equally obviously he didn’t want to disobey the Host in the matter of telling me my sentence. Their logic was that it was hardly an aspect of being mortal to know for a fact that if you just survive long enough you’ll get your immortality back. The truth was, of course, the Lion had had the judges in his pocket. We hated each other even then; that’s why I started investigating him. He had them do it to be pointlessly cruel, and they came up with a rationalization to the rest of the Host. Well, in those ten years, Heph became my best friend. Raven and Cat and Monkey, my other close friends, hadn’t come to visit. Even Isis, who treated me like I was her little brother and used to watch out for me when we were millions of years younger, left me there. Heph was the only Aleph willing to risk the displeasure of the Host to be my friend.

So as soon as I came back to Earth, I looked him up, of course.

I’m kind of in the same boat he’s always been in; I have my powers, but the moment I draw down energy to do anything major, or even upload any complex hand-rolled query, my memories upload to the Host. And I’m absolutely sure that the Lion is going to honor the law and not seek to obtain illicit access to privacy-locked memories. Yup. Positive. So the moment I use my powers, my enemy gets to see exactly what I’ve been thinking and planning up to that point. Which means I can’t use my powers for anything short of “my physical body has just been killed and I need to upload or I’ll actually die.” But locating a fellow Aleph is such a common query, we have a wizard for it, which can be triggered without uploading – and while my privacy lock keeps that particular simple query from finding me, Heph’s never felt the need to hide.

But I gotta admit I was kind of shocked when I saw his new body.

He recognized me, of course. “Fox. Come on in.”

Heph was living in a farmhouse that he’d converted to his brand of tech wonderland, probably because he wanted to have enough land between him and his human neighbors that no one called the cops for strange noises or mysterious lights. I stepped over several gadgets of unknown function, following Heph to the kitchen. “You still drink tea?” he asked me.

“Uh, yeah, what have you got?”

“Oolong, chai, green with ginger, peach chamomile, Earl Grey, and hibiscus.”

“Gimme the chai.” The last time we’d met, chai had been something you’d only get if you were actually in India.

I made my way to his kitchen table, which was covered with papers and had what looked like two laptops sitting on it. I happened to know they were laptops the way desktop computers are abacuses, but humans probably wouldn’t have been easily able to tell the difference, unless they knew the Unix operating system well enough to know that Heph was not running a variant of it. Heph pushed the papers out of the way on one of the chairs, giving me a clear spot to sit down, as he remote-activated a teakettle with his mind.

“What brings you back to Earth?” he asked.

“Before we get into that, I need to address the elephant in the room, Heph.”

“No one here goes by Elephant.”

If I hadn’t known Heph as well as I did, I might not have guessed he was telling a joke; he was completely deadpan. “Yeah yeah. What have you done to your use-form?”

Like I said, the last time I’d seen Heph, he’d been built, matching the crippled blacksmith stereotype. Now… he was still tall. That was about the only point of resemblance. He’d gone for a pasty white, skinny form with long blond hair in a ponytail, thick glasses with a tint to them so I couldn’t really see his eyes well, and his body looked like it would blow away in a strong wind. There was a visible brace on his left leg, and he dragged it very slightly when he walked. Heph had always made his use-forms disabled, but there’s disabled and then there’s “looks completely helpless.”

“This is the new look for the 21st century technologist,” Heph said.

“It looks like the consumption chic that was going around in Byron’s day. Do you eat? At all?”

“Sure. Chips, pizza, burgers. All of the fatty, unhealthy stuff that modern technology gurus poison themselves with when they’re crunching on a project, which is all the time.”

“Great, so you’re not just incredibly skinny, you also probably have a dozen vitamin deficiencies. Heph. You gotta keep that body running! With your upload time—”

“Thanks, I’m aware of my upload time. And I’m pretty sure you didn’t drop in on me just to tell me I’m too thin.”

“I’m worried about you. You look like one high fever could do you in.”

“They’ve invented a lot more antibiotics than they had around when you got sick. Listen, Fox, I get that you’re worried, but I’m not trapped like you were. If something goes wrong with this body because it’s too fragile to survive, which is highly unlikely anyway, I’ll have enough time to upload. I’ve got plenty of equipment to scan it for health.” He got to his feet with some difficulty and limped over toward the singing teakettle.

“What was wrong with the old one?”

“Firstly, too many photographs got taken of it. I had to fake my death so I didn’t have uncomfortable questions about why I looked exactly like my great-grandfather.”

“Maybe you should have thought of that before posing for photographs right after they were invented.”

“It’s not the Victoriana I was concerned with, it was more the World War II era stuff. And secondly, it’s the aesthetic. Today people don’t think of blacksmiths when they think of technology. They think of autistic white men with bad vision.”

I raised an eyebrow. “Did you actually give yourself autism or is that just a metaphor?”

“Look the definitions up, I am actually the closest thing to autistic the Aleph have ever produced.” He came over to the table with my tea. I didn’t try to help him or intercept him. Quite aside from the fact that he’d find it insulting, he had so much junk on the floor that his knowledge of what to step over and when made him more mobile than I’d be. “But stop trying to sidetrack me. What are you doing on Earth?”

If another Aleph had asked that question, there might have been all kinds of subtext in there. Are you in exile again? Have you gone native after spending ten years as a mortal here? Don’t you have anything better to do? From Heph, it more or less meant exactly what he’d asked. “Can’t tell you unless you’ve run a backup,” I said, taking a sip of the tea.

Heph rolled his eyes. “You’re so dramatic,” he said. “Look at this.” He got up again and dodged some more junk on the floor, making his way toward what the people who’d built this place probably thought of as a family room or maybe sitting room. I followed, feeling like a drunk guy in a china shop. My personal aesthetic has never been tiny, delicate motions, so getting anywhere across Heph’s floor without breaking his stuff was like a minefield, except with fewer actual explosions, I hoped.

It was a metal box. “Very impressive,” I said. “I especially like the craft in the solder lines.”

“Don’t be an ass. Here.” He unlatched a latch I hadn’t recognized and lifted the lid. Inside was a crystalline array of the kind the Aleph used to use before we shifted to encoding our data in neutron stars. “Local backup device.”

I tried not to look impressed. Of course Heph had a local backup device. I was kicking myself for not assuming he’d have created such a thing. “Does it work?”

“I changed my use-form. How do you think I did that without it being a major pain in the rear?”

That was a good point. Heph’s bandwidth was low enough that it would take him a couple of days to upload to the Host. Changing bodies would have involved creating a new form, uploading out of it, and then downloading into the new one… which was a problem if it took you two days to upload or download, because your physical body might very well die on you or suffer brain damage while you were imperfectly socketed in it. I felt a lot better about Heph’s frailty now. “How long does it take to transfer to that?”

“I’m running delta backups every time I sleep, so if the body were to die unexpectedly, I’d only need to transfer at most a day’s worth of memories and experiences. Probably 20 minutes at a maximum. Also, if it wasn’t obvious to you, I’m not doing regular backups to the Host and I can tag data to keep it out of the upload when I do, and there’s no way any other Aleph is getting into my local backup server. It’s not even connected to the Host except when I run uploads from it.”

Okay. His memories weren’t accessible to the Lion either. That meant it was safe to tell him the details of what I was up to. I made my way back to the table with my teacup. “So, this is going to be a long story…”

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Exploring Night Vision Options | Backdoor Survival

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Exploring Night Vision Options | Backdoor Survival

This post is a collaboration between Matt and Samantha Biggers. For those that don’t already know Matt Biggers, he is my husband and best friend of 15 years!  He does all the original photos for all the posts of mine you have read over the past few years.  I am grateful for all the hard work and research he put into this post and for knowing how to gently get my Vietnam veteran father to talk about some of the tough stuff he has a hard time telling a daughter.

Best wishes, Samantha

Things that go bump in the night and our inability to see into the darkness has long kept people at the dark hours huddled around whatever light source they had.

Technology has changed that.

Having the ability to see through the veil of darkness changes operating at night from a risk to a real advantage and leaves an opponent without it effectively blind to the hazards of the night.

History of Night Vision

Night Vision technology was first developed right before World War II.  The first systems were too large for a man to move and were used as sights for anti-aircraft guns or mounted on vehicles. By the end of the war, both sides had developed night vision systems that were small enough to be attached to an infantry rifle. Most of the first systems were “active” meaning they used infrared light to illuminate the area in front of the night vision sensor.  These first systems that cannot work without illumination are referred to as “Gen 0” night vision.

When my father in law Alvin served in Vietnam “Starlight Scopes”  were being used frequently. These scopes had good enough light amplification to work without using a light making them one of the first of the “passive” systems.

The biggest problem was that they were still large systems and they were very expensive to produce, so the military was picky about who got to use them and where.

The scope Alvin was issued was mounted on an M-14 rifle, and they must have weighed about 15 pounds together. While these Starlight Scopes were an improvement, they still needed some ambient light to function and would not work well on cloudy nights or indoors. The early night vision sensors are called “Gen 1” systems.

Modernized more compact versions of these early optics are available starting at around $200 for a monocular. While first generation night vision will work to some degree without infrared illumination at close range, these systems all need illumination to properly identify objects at longer distances.

The illuminators themselves pose some problems the biggest one is that the infrared light from them is not entirely invisible when the bulb glows visibly. It’s not much to the unaided human eye, but for someone with night vision or some nocturnal predators, an infrared illuminator shines like a spotlight, and that can make all the difference during a major situation.

By the late 1980s, the, US military had developed an improved version of their passive system. These “Gen 2” scopes offer a much clearer picture and with less distortion around the edges and good enough light amplification to work indoors or on starless nights. An improved light tube also gives a longer lifespan.  Second generation night vision typically costs over $1,000.

Armasight Vampire 3X Night Vision Rifle Scope (CORE IIT, 60-70 lp/mm)

The Vampire is an impressive night vision scope for your dollar. When we took it out around our homestead, it was pretty amazing how well we could see details from one end of our property to another. For example, it would have been fairly easy to aim at anything creeping around at a hundred yards away. The level of detail was pretty good as well. In fact, you could even see the details of the bark still hanging on the locust end posts in the vineyard at 75-100 yards.

  For those that want a basic but very high-quality pair of night vision binoculars, this is a more affordable option at under $700. The high magnification this pair of binoculars offers means you can zoom in on things with ease. If you want something for night scouting for security, binocular style night vision is easy to get used to and more comfortable for many than using a monocular style unit.

This system has a lot of advantages, and at around $1,600, it is mid-priced. I like that this can be worn on your head and is made for being able to move quickly and efficiently in indoor and outdoor spaces. This would be useful if you found yourself needing to check out a building during SHTF or if you are just scouting out an area.

Hands-free is a very nice option to have if you need to get something done at night.

This is a good multi-purpose unit that offers some hands-free options thanks to the included detachable tripod. The handles on the side deserve attention. If someone is investing nearly $2,000 in a night vision system, having a solid way to hold, it becomes pretty important. While these are made tough, it is never good for any optic to be dropped.

For general observation or staying in place and observing for long periods of time, this unit is made for comfort and stability. If you wanted to stay in place for a few days to assess a situation or if you had an observation post in place at your prepper compound to watch for marauders during SHTF, this is an option to consider.

Generation 3 Night Vision Options

Gen 3 and 3+  is the current generation in use by the US armed services.  These systems offer a large improvement in performance and life span of the image tube. One important feature is the addition of “autogating”  which is a system to automatically adjust light levels, useful in light polluted urban environments and when moving rapidly between lit and unlit areas.  One disadvantage of Gen 3 is that it uses more power, so it has a shorter battery life than Gen 2. Third generation night vision equipment usually starts around $3,000.

If you are willing to invest just under $3,000, this system offers a lot of versatility. Not many night vision systems are labeled for use as a weapon mounted, handheld, or helmet mounted unit. This shows confidence in the durability and impact resistant characteristics of this monocular.

It is noticeable that this monocular is also listed as being submersible. A lot of the night vision out there is listed as being waterproof or resistant. If you plan on using your night vision regularly in wet conditions or simply live in a wet climate, waterproof features may be something you want to look more closely at when choosing a night vision system.

Pulsar has an outstanding reputation in the world of night vision. For the quality, you get the price is reasonable in the world of 3rd generation night vision.  That being said, this is a lot of scope for the average person but people’s goals for night vision and needs differ. If you are going to use it a lot and want a serious scope, then go for it, but if you just want some basic night vision for occasional use or for close range, this is overkill.

Digital Night Vision

There is a new class of “digital” night vision. These consumer grade systems use microchips and small LCD screens like those in digital cameras instead of a glass optical tube.  This gives the advantage of being able to work in the day as well as at night without risking damage. They often include features like a Bluetooth link to a smartphone and built-in cameras. However, this comes at the cost of lower resolution and higher power consumption. They vary in price and performance, but most are comparable to Gen 1 or 2 systems, starting at about $300 and going up to over $2000.

This is fairly new technology, so time will tell how well this style holds up over the years. So far they seem to get very positive feedback. Considering how competitive the market is and the nature of the product, it stands out when there are that many people happy with a product. So far so good.

Another winning scope from Pulsar. At around $1,500, this scope offers high quality, but it is half the cost of the nondigital Pulsar Phantom. This particular model has been discontinued by the manufacturer, but there are still some new ones for sale on Amazon and other sites. Of course, Pulsar has plenty of other digisight models to choose from if you can’t get one of these.

Thermal imaging is an alternative to traditional night vision.

Thermal imaging detects the radiation emitted by heat sources instead of having light amplification tubes like night vision. This means thermal can be used at any light level from daylight to absolute darkness. But it also means thermal cannot “see” any details of objects that are uniform in temperature.

Thermal only shows temperature contrasts; this makes thermal better than traditional night vision for spotting something like a coyote hiding in the bushes. But thermal imaging is less useful than night vision when you are trying to walk through the woods at night.

Thermal units often offer a much shorter detection distance than traditional night vision products where you can see details at 500 feet or more. The LCD screen takes a lot of battery so if the 5 hour viewing time is a problem you can always take along a small battery bank as you would use for cell phone charging in an emergency.

While Leupold is known for quality optics, the battery life is really low on this unit. Also, it appears that this battery life can vary a bit based on the operating temperature. While this unit allows for detection at up to 750 yards, one must ask if there are many places where they want to use thermal detection where they have a line of sight that far away? Considering the additional cost and battery life, most of us would be better off with the less expensive but more range limited FLIR Scout described previously.

So which is best for you? With night vision the major factors to consider and questions to ask include the following:

What are you planning on using it for?

Are you worried about protecting your home, family, and property? Is this just to put back in case of SHTF? Do you plan on using it to hunt with or eliminate predators that are dangerous to your livestock and pets?

Will you be using your night vision for observation close up or are you concerned about distance?

A magnified riflescope with night vision has too much magnification to be good for close up situations. Night vision or thermal imaging monoculars normally cannot be used on rifles because they cannot take the recoil. Magnification ability varies based on what you buy.

How much are you prepared to spend?

Night vision is never cheap. Although the price has come down substantially, it is still a significant investment for optics that you might not use that often. Night vision scopes for rifles often cost substantially more because they have to be made more rugged so they can absorb shock and stand up to the abuse of hunting in the bush.

Most people are going to want to compromise on price versus performance.  But if you live in an area with lots of light pollution investing in an auto-gated system to avoid damaging your optics or looking into getting a quality digital system.

Surplus or refurbished night vision units can sometimes be found at discounts of 50% or more over there new price.  Used units come at the price of a shortened life span.  Be clear on how old or how much use a system has seen before agreeing to purchase.

When using night vision, especially the lower end systems, it is important to have realistic expectations. No system is capable of turning night into day, they are all a green monochrome color, and they all have some amount of distortion around the edges of the lens.  It is also important to keep in mind that while these systems amplify light, they can only do so much if you let your eyes adjust to darkness for 30 minutes before you turn them on you will be able to see more through them.

Size and weight of the optic is another consideration. Night vision scopes are large and heavier than standard scopes. If you want smaller, then in many cases, the cost goes up a lot.

Export restrictions outside of USA are something to consider.

Export of some night vision products outside of the United States of America is not allowed and is controlled by the US Department of State so if you live in another country, you should double check before ordering any night vision from the USA. The idea is that the US Department of State doesn’t want to help out other countries when it comes to procuring affordable and more advanced night vision. Who knows how effective this really is? Regardless, the rules are there.

Do you have night vision? Please share any positive or negative experiences in the comments below. Unfortunately, due to cost, a lot of us have to totally rely on the reviews and experiences of others when making a purchase decision. Any honest feedback about any brands or models is very helpful! Also please share any tips about using night vision you might have.

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