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    NIGHT VISION RATTING ON A BUDGET

    Jul 14, 2022 4 minutes

    Well, of course there was a time before IR and thermal. Lamping is as effective today as it ever was.

    However, regardless of your kit, the challenge with night shooting is judging distance accurately to adjust your aim and compensate for a pellet's trajectory.

    Shot from a legal-limit rifle, a .22 pellet, for example, can drop as much as four or five inches over 40 metres. Most of us usually overcome the problem by aiming above the target to allow for pellet drop, or under to allow for pellet rise at targets which are much closer. It's a very effective technique. However, using apps or hours spent on the range working out aim points for different distances is all

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