I’m thinking the reference(s) are to military grade night vision gear
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@Acmemfg 100% correct, sir! There is no reason for the gear to cost what it cost other than Uncle Sam wants it and we get to pay for it... Whatever it costs!
@HDSledge Fancy words, eh? So for a NV rig to work you need some parts. First up is the brain bucket. This can be ballistic (mine is rated for .44 mag.), bump (It will keep a fella from craking his skull in the dark.), or airsoft (Light and cheap.) After that you need a shroud. This is in the interface that attaches rest of the NOD setup attaches to. Next up is a mount that clips to the shroud and allows adjustment (along with the next part) so that you can get the observation device squared up to your eye. Last up is the bridge. This is necessary because the shroud and the mount are on the centerline of the helmet and that is a lousy place for the eyepiece to be. The bridge also allows for inter pupilary adjustment and a quick way to attached the NOD to the rest of the parts. You can go airsoft (read knockoff) but the tolerances usually suck so I bit the bullet and went with a Norotos and Wilcox combo who are 2 of the big three in the NV mount game. Works thusly...
The Mohawk is simply a pouch with a velcro strip that runs up the center of the helmet so you can attach "stuff" but the big selling point is being able to add counter weights and battery packs to power the NODs and so that ones head doesn't fall clean off their shoulders! Serously, my helment weighed 4-ish pounds pre mohawk and would tip foward due to the inbalance! This not only made it difficult to navigate but after a 3 or 4 hour session I almost couldn't pick my head up the next morning. The counterbalance adds weight but doesn't wear you out as bad...
I'm running (2) 4oz lead strips and a 4.16oz power bank in mine. This gives me a 70% offset to the front end of the rig and the powerbank is 5200 mAh. I can get about 1 hour and 45 minutes out of the normal single Li-Ion battery. The powerbank? 14 hours! Gives me 2 to 3 days of hunting HARD between recharges. The last part I mention was the NERD (Nightvision Elastic Retention Device) which is simply a bungie cord that is simply hitched around the bridge and attaches via velcro to the helmet. If one was to not lock in a mount or dovetail is simple prevents my device from hitting the deck, which BTW, would make me cry!
It is all just fancy words for hardware that holds everything together!
@HDSledge Fancy words, eh? So for a NV rig to work you need some parts. First up is the brain bucket. This can be ballistic (mine is rated for .44 mag.), bump (It will keep a fella from craking his skull in the dark.), or airsoft (Light and cheap.) After that you need a shroud. This is in the interface that attaches rest of the NOD setup attaches to. Next up is a mount that clips to the shroud and allows adjustment (along with the next part) so that you can get the observation device squared up to your eye. Last up is the bridge. This is necessary because the shroud and the mount are on the centerline of the helmet and that is a lousy place for the eyepiece to be. The bridge also allows for inter pupilary adjustment and a quick way to attached the NOD to the rest of the parts. You can go airsoft (read knockoff) but the tolerances usually suck so I bit the bullet and went with a Norotos and Wilcox combo who are 2 of the big three in the NV mount game. Works thusly...
The Mohawk is simply a pouch with a velcro strip that runs up the center of the helmet so you can attach "stuff" but the big selling point is being able to add counter weights and battery packs to power the NODs and so that ones head doesn't fall clean off their shoulders! Serously, my helment weighed 4-ish pounds pre mohawk and would tip foward due to the inbalance! This not only made it difficult to navigate but after a 3 or 4 hour session I almost couldn't pick my head up the next morning. The counterbalance adds weight but doesn't wear you out as bad...
I'm running (2) 4oz lead strips and a 4.16oz power bank in mine. This gives me a 70% offset to the front end of the rig and the powerbank is 5200 mAh. I can get about 1 hour and 45 minutes out of the normal single Li-Ion battery. The powerbank? 14 hours! Gives me 2 to 3 days of hunting HARD between recharges. The last part I mention was the NERD (Nightvision Elastic Retention Device) which is simply a bungie cord that is simply hitched around the bridge and attaches via velcro to the helmet. If one was to not lock in a mount or dovetail is simple prevents my device from hitting the deck, which BTW, would make me cry!
It is all just fancy words for hardware that holds everything together!
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I always wonder what I should wear when it was suggested I should stick my head where the sun don't shine.
Very nice explanation and much appreciated. I wonder when all that capability will be mounted into the helmet instead of onto it? No flip down heads up screens with built in nv optics/illumination yet?@Acmemfg 100% correct, sir! There is no reason for the gear to cost what it cost other than Uncle Sam wants it and we get to pay for it... Whatever it costs!
@HDSledge Fancy words, eh? So for a NV rig to work you need some parts. First up is the brain bucket. This can be ballistic (mine is rated for .44 mag.), bump (It will keep a fella from craking his skull in the dark.), or airsoft (Light and cheap.) After that you need a shroud. This is in the interface that attaches rest of the NOD setup attaches to. Next up is a mount that clips to the shroud and allows adjustment (along with the next part) so that you can get the observation device squared up to your eye. Last up is the bridge. This is necessary because the shroud and the mount are on the centerline of the helmet and that is a lousy place for the eyepiece to be. The bridge also allows for inter pupilary adjustment and a quick way to attached the NOD to the rest of the parts. You can go airsoft (read knockoff) but the tolerances usually suck so I bit the bullet and went with a Norotos and Wilcox combo who are 2 of the big three in the NV mount game. Works thusly...
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The Mohawk is simply a pouch with a velcro strip that runs up the center of the helmet so you can attach "stuff" but the big selling point is being able to add counter weights and battery packs to power the NODs and so that ones head doesn't fall clean off their shoulders! Serously, my helment weighed 4-ish pounds pre mohawk and would tip foward due to the inbalance! This not only made it difficult to navigate but after a 3 or 4 hour session I almost couldn't pick my head up the next morning. The counterbalance adds weight but doesn't wear you out as bad...
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I'm running (2) 4oz lead strips and a 4.16oz power bank in mine. This gives me a 70% offset to the front end of the rig and the powerbank is 5200 mAh. I can get about 1 hour and 45 minutes out of the normal single Li-Ion battery. The powerbank? 14 hours! Gives me 2 to 3 days of hunting HARD between recharges. The last part I mention was the NERD (Nightvision Elastic Retention Device) which is simply a bungie cord that is simply hitched around the bridge and attaches via velcro to the helmet. If one was to not lock in a mount or dovetail is simple prevents my device from hitting the deck, which BTW, would make me cry!
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Back in the day Alliant (the gunpowder people) Tech Systems was working on a system called Land Warrior. It was a heads up type system that was more for ranging targets (and the rifle system adjusted holds accordingly) and also offered programable gernades as in set the detonation standoff distance. I remeber hearing that it had some, uhm, issues... As in the gernades were going off IN the launcher. It either lost interest -or- went dark! Honestly, something like a PVS-14 is still so simple that it is gonna be around for a while! They'll run 50 hours on a AA battery and can standup to the Marines! No small feat!
The latest push is two fold. The First is Gen IV tubes which are going to take some miracle of engineering to happen i.e. tubes with VERY long lives running un-filmed on non-autogated power supplied (turn on and off very quickly to eliminate bloom) and the other is the ENVG-B. This is Uncle Sugars new fused set-up which is a thermal/NV and ALMOST looks like you are playing a video game! As an aside, it implements NET-WARRIOR so a squad came network the devices together to use each others eyes OR it can link to a camera (with a reticle) on the users rifle. Bad guy around the corner? Just poke the weapon around the corner, line up the reticle, and take the shot! Only thing that is exposed is the weapon and the operators hands. To me, that is pretty darn close to heads up!Good video on the ENVG-B...
I keep getting the mental image of google glass equipped headgear. Too bad they lost almost a billion on it, it looked promising.Back in the day Alliant (the gunpowder people) Tech Systems was working on a system called Land Warrior. It was a heads up type system that was more for ranging targets (and the rifle system adjusted holds accordingly) and also offered programable gernades as in set the detonation standoff distance. I remeber hearing that it had some, uhm, issues... As in the gernades were going off IN the launcher. It either lost interest -or- went dark! Honestly, something like a PVS-14 is still so simple that it is gonna be around for a while! They'll run 50 hours on a AA battery and can standup to the Marines! No small feat!
Good video on the ENVG-B...
The Snake Farm coming closer to where it needs to be. Really need that .38 Diamondback.
That’s funny. My wife will see me at the safe handling my guns and will say I need to put a mirror by the safe so I can see myself easier.
Women sure sure are smart ellecky…
I'll bet a poll would reveal that 90% of us have heard those exact words. I know I have.
Good to know. We've been married so long, I thought I was the only one.
How about this one; a few days ago my wife told me that she was going to buy me some new shirts. She showed me this picture,
Then she asked me how many I wanted.
OkieStubble
Dirty Donuts are so Good.
There is a plaque that hangs in the front foyer of my home as you come in the front door. It says; “I am the boss of this house and I have my wife’s permission to say so.”
I honestly read that as "There is a plague that hangs..."There is a plaque that hangs in the front foyer of my home as you come in the front door. It says; “I am the boss of this house and I have my wife’s permission to say so.”
OkieStubble
Dirty Donuts are so Good.
that’s for when her back is turned and it’s said in a very hushed tone.I honestly read that as "There is a plague that hangs..."
An acquisition and a vent. My local preferred lgs, close to work. I ordered a single stack Ria 22 tcm since I heard they weren't making anymore. . He said it came in and pay on it as you want because he has a free layaway, I said ok. Bought a new chainsaw the same week lol. Paid for it and took it home after multiple conversations about how I only wanted the single stack version, both employees said they wanted the same gun since it wasn't made anymore.. My fault for not looking, it's a double stack with California 10 round mags. Completely different weapon. He said they stopped making them and this is what they had? Lol. So Rural king has the same gun. For 250 bucks cheaper on sale with high capacity mags this week as well. I've used this guy for years. Not anymore. Oh at least the Echo cs2511 was a deal . Carry on.
So nothing special but I reached out to iRay about purchasing a new power cable for my helmet mounted thermal because I can tear up an anvil with a rubber hammer and see USB cables as consumables. Cody promptly told me “Sorry we can’t sell you one… but I can send you one. What’s your address and what size t-shirt do you wear?” Good people over there in Fort Worth! Oh, and everyone needs a moral patch so I grabbed this to slap on my helmet. Seems… fitting. 
So I made an offer on an almost new Tisas Fatih (licensed Beretta 84 clone) that was accepted and the pistol was shipped to my FFL using USPS. Tracking data showed it was scheduled to arrive at my FFL in Mission, TX on the 11th, but the destination city was Austin rather than Mission.
A brief investigation determined that there was a 78754 zip code in Austin and my FFL in Mission is in 78574. It was pretty clear what must have happened but how the USPS could have a system so poorly programmed that it even allowed such a label to get created was not just depressing but as someone who made a living by writing programs, insulting.
USPS certainly has or should have a database with fields for City, State, Zip code and a near instantaneous lookup of City+State+Zip code would have returned the basic fact that there is no such entry and flagged the label for human verification.
But time passed with no real tracking until it showed up in San Antonio, but then took a couple days to go to Austin and then to the Austin Post Office in the 78754 zip code and then today it showed the item is out for delivery.
So late today or maybe tomorrow I should acquire another datum; either the package could not be delivered or it was delivered. If it was not delivered USPS might tell me that it is being forwarded to Mission, Tx, 78574; or returned to sender but may simply say once again that it is in Transit to the next facility.
If delivered I will strongly suggest the selling FFL report it as stolen while the USPS was in possession.
A brief investigation determined that there was a 78754 zip code in Austin and my FFL in Mission is in 78574. It was pretty clear what must have happened but how the USPS could have a system so poorly programmed that it even allowed such a label to get created was not just depressing but as someone who made a living by writing programs, insulting.
USPS certainly has or should have a database with fields for City, State, Zip code and a near instantaneous lookup of City+State+Zip code would have returned the basic fact that there is no such entry and flagged the label for human verification.
But time passed with no real tracking until it showed up in San Antonio, but then took a couple days to go to Austin and then to the Austin Post Office in the 78754 zip code and then today it showed the item is out for delivery.
So late today or maybe tomorrow I should acquire another datum; either the package could not be delivered or it was delivered. If it was not delivered USPS might tell me that it is being forwarded to Mission, Tx, 78574; or returned to sender but may simply say once again that it is in Transit to the next facility.
If delivered I will strongly suggest the selling FFL report it as stolen while the USPS was in possession.
Had my First Spear helmet hut land today and I started modding it so the bridge and mount wouldn’t clank around. Nice bag to be honest and makes toting everything around easy (and a little armor puts my mind at ease).
Also grabbed an “admin” light in the form of a Princeton Tec switch MLPS. Offers a 1/10 lumen LED in red and 10 lumen LED in white. Handy for reading,battery changes, etc.
Also grabbed an “admin” light in the form of a Princeton Tec switch MLPS. Offers a 1/10 lumen LED in red and 10 lumen LED in white. Handy for reading,battery changes, etc.
OkieStubble
Dirty Donuts are so Good.
Wife upgraded her .380.
Glock 42
Glock 42
@OkieStubble , how much smaller is the G 42 compared to the G 43X ?
OkieStubble
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Quite a bit smaller. She has it at work today, but when she gets home, I can take some comparison pics between the G42 and G43X and her G42 and the Ruger LCP Max.
Just by looking, the G42 is just a tad larger then the Max, but quite a bit smaller then the G43X. It’s also, smaller then her G43, it’s why I bought it. She likes to carry AIWB 90% of the time when at work or out and about.
I just can’t get her to carry her G43. She thinks it just a bit too wide, a bit too long and a bit too heavy. In her stubborn mind,
. She only prefers to carry it on the hip OWB on her days off under a coat or jacket in colder weather. But any other time? She only wants something thin, light and shorter barreled pistols IWB on her person. She has a nice leather purse with an excellent gun pocket, but while that purse cost a couple of hundred bucks, I want her to have a gun on her person. The smaller .380’s give us both a middle place that we can agree on. I thought the Ruger Max was perfect, because while I would love for her to carry a bigger 9mm, 12 rounds of .380 isn’t something to sneeze at.I’m really disappointed with the Ruger LCP line of pistols right now. I know the G42 won’t fail her; and I know 6 rounds in the mag and one in the pipe is better than no gun, but I was really stoked about her having 12 rounds on tap, thinking she might not even have to reload.
Having two different models of LCP breaking within just a couple of days of each other, both of which the wife has carried is not confidence inspiring at all.
Here are some good comparison pics I found online.
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