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  1. Excellent article and fully agree with a safe full of guns or night vision. I sold and purchased night vision and haven’t looked back. One thing on care and feeding of night vision. You need batteries. Get a bunch of good AA’s along with rechargeable AA’s. I think eneloop makes excellent rechargeables. Also maybe get a solar charger if you are away from an electrical source. The batteries on the FLIR are internal and need recharging. In the field this would require a solar charger. The FLIR in my estimation takes more training to understand what it is you’re seeing because it doesn’t give you a true picture but solely goes by heet signature. Plus there are multiple settings that through practice you can use to your advantage. Take it(FLIR)on daily walks and play with it. Both day and night. You will not regret these purchases.

  2. Most need to get out at night and use natural vision(most Americans never get out and are”night blind”) before gearing up. Get to know and use your abilities,then you can find what works best for you.

  3. When purchasing NV equipment don’t forget that “one is none” if something goes wrong. If possible buy two units just in case you lose your one and only NV optic. Besides if you’re protecting your property in a SHTF situation then one guy with NV can only protect one half of the property at best. With two units your buddy would be able to protect the other side of the property, and also be able to show up to your side to help you should there be aggressors to confront. Also don’t forget that there are electronics in your optic so I would have to assume that it would be in danger of failure from an EMP attack. It would really suck to pay three or four thousand dollars for a NV optic just to have it fried when you really need it. There’s all sort of good ways to build a small faraday cage for your optic and it would be wise to always store it there.

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