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My wife bought this for me after I found something similar but not liking it. On a camping trip a month and a half ago I ended up leaving our camp at night and wondering around the woods just being curious. It worked well and had an IR which was like an internal flashlight. Overall I give it a high rating, did just what I wanted and had a 3 year warranty. This one also has different accessories lenses, headmounts, riflekits. I haven't used these yet but I thought it was a cool idea.

I bought this just as sort of a fun toy to play with in Iraq. I couldn't be happier with it. I can see so well in almost 0 lum, I barely ever need the IR light. For basic spotting, this thing gets my 5 stars. Love it. I don't even check out NODS anymore from the arms room.

I take my NVMT 4x50 to the deer lease. At night when there is nothing to do I sit in my blind and look through the night vision. Last week I saw a 14 pt. buck getting a drink from the river that runs through. It was so neat to be able to see this at night. Too bad I never see this big of deer during the day, but I sure did like seeing it at night. This is something new and different for me to do on my trips.

I'm just getting over a very bad experience with tigerdirect, so I thought I'd warn you all. I ordered the Yukon Advanced Optics 2x24 Night Vision Monocular new, thinking it was coming from amazon.com for some reason (of course I found out later it was from tigerdirect.com). It arrived not looking new at all. The box wasn't sealed and there were no instructions. No problem if it worked, but it did nothing but light up indicating it was supposedly turned on. Definately broken.
I wrote tigerdirect, got a return authorization number and spent $15 mailing it back to be replaced I thought.
Almost a week after they recieved it (I had delivery confirmation), I wrote to find out what was happening with it only to receive a reply 2 days later telling me that they don't exchange products bought over amazon.com and supposedly I was refunded the money. My account isn't showing it yet, but I'm assuming they are good for their word on that.
Not neccessarily a bad company, I'm sure it isn't standard practice for them to send defective merchandise, but the customer service was almost nonexistant. Had I known I wasn't going to receive a working product in exchange, I would have bought another (from someone else) last week.
Just a warning fyi, you may be better off buying from one of the other vendors on amazon.com if you are going to get this.

This is a poorly constructed piece of equipment. Having just returned home from Iraq, I think my expectations were too high for this product. It focuses poorly, the IR feature does not work that well. I would tell anybody looking for something like this to spend the extra money and get a better one. I wish somebody had told me that. Ive got a very costly paperweight now.