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Night vision scopes aren’t just for the military. With an explosion of invasive animals such as wild hogs, coyotes, and armadillos, hunting at night has never been more popular—and sometimes necessary ...

Private landowners already may use night-vision and thermal-imaging scopes to better stalk feral hogs at night on their own property. But the conservation department is weighing new rules that would ...

Imagine standing in a dense forest, surrounded by thick brush, trees towering overhead, and the sound of distant footsteps rustling in the undergrowth. You know something’s out there—a wild hog, ...

There are times night vision will be the choice for your mission, others a device with thermal imaging capability, another may call for infrared technology. While it matters most on the job at hand, ...

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Editor’s Note: October 23, 2025: As veteran Contributor Justin Park begins testing a new round of night vision and thermal imaging gear, we’ve updated this story with some early frontrunners based on ...

Night vision technology, which was once quite clunky, has become so lightweight and powerful that it is shifting the battle paradigm for U.S. forces. Night has become day. The ability to use a scope ...

These prototypes of the helmet-mounted Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III and the rifle-mounted Family Weapons Sights - Individual constitute a two-part system that will let soldiers see images from ...

At the lower end of the price spectrum, we matched a FLIR ThermoSight R-Series scope (RS32, 1.25-5x, 60Hz) with a Mossberg MVP Varmint rifle chambered in .223 Remington/5.56 NATO. At the other end, we ...