“Tag: Night”

Wild swine are devastating property and wildlife across the country and one way to combat the threat is to employ military-like tactics such as night vision.

Bushnell has introduced two new night vision binoculars in the company's Equinox Z product line. The digital night vision bios are designed to offer top-of-the-line optical clarity, illumination and field of view. Both units will feature digital zoom, image capture and video recording abilities.

It’s important to let the dogs do their thing, because without them and their zeal, hunters would fare poorly. Upland bird hunters and duck hunters know this. So do coon hunters, which are a breed unto themselves. Anyone can learn this if he or she passes just one night among them, for a coon hunt is always a work in progress.

Today’s hunters have a wide array of choices in both light-intensified optics and thermal optics to help them see their prey when the lights go out. Which technology works better, though, is more of a debate than you may realize.

Night Optics has unveiled its new SVTS-80 Fusion thermal riflescope that combines night vision with thermal overlay for fast target acquisition and identification.

Assistant Editor Connor McKibbin recently had the opportunity to join Federal Premium, Savage Arms and Bushnell in Texas to test Federal’s new .224 Valkyrie cartridge—the world’s first cartridge to remain supersonic at 1300 yards, designed specifically for AR-15s.