Gre-Tan Rifles Night Vision

Mr. Tannel,
No problem with the wait on the IR unit, the scope works so good that there is only a few times where it may be needed. So far 2 foxes 1 at 128 and the other at 246. It is all you advised it would be and more, and I am impressed with the way it holds zero. Great unit I hope to be able to get another in the future... I have a Remington S/A 700 bolt that needs some your magic. It is the one with the J-lock and is so rough that adjusting the pull weight on the Shilen trigger doesn't seem to do any good. I guess I need new spring and firing pin. and your work done to it. Let me know how much and how log you will need it.
Thanks,
Mark

Mr. Tannel,
Just after my last e-mail I went down to my shop where I have a bench an an electronic caller and started watching an area which is 425 yards long and about 440 yards wide. I have a feeder set up at a lazered 400 yds. from my bench. After calling for about 30 minutes and no coyotes I saw a raccoon eating corn dispensed around the feeder. It was overcast and no moon was visible, It was the worst conditions I've hunted in so far and made the shot.
5 minutes later a red fox trotted from down wind of the raccoon and before he could enjoy his supper I dropped him at 407 yds. I have the sight on a DPMS Ar-10 in 243 Winchester and shooting 87 V-maxs the rifle will shoot under 1/4 moa with a night force at that distance.. It seems it will do almost as well with the IR system you recommended. Thanks again for giving honest and straightforward information on the equipment prior to the sale. This seems to be a dying quality in the world today.
Thanks Again,
Mark

Mr. Tannel,

I smoked another fox last p.m. at 405 yds. This DPMS AR-10 is the most accurate factory out of the box rifle I have ever seen.. Bar None. I'll try to attach photos of a view from my bench, where I shoot a steel plate with 2 3-shot groups @ 400 yds. and the critters..... I'll be glad to talk with possible customers on the telephone or anything else I can do to assist you..... To say that I am pleased with this scope is giant understatement..
Sincerely,
Mark

Mr. Tannel,
Anything I can do to help. This is a top-shelf product and with the intensifier, I do believe it is the most fun you can have with your clothes on........Thanks again, if all goes good with my timber harvest I'm thinking seriously about another.
Mark

Got up this am @ 2:45 and decided to look around a bit from the shop.. It was a cool 26* and a slight wind out of the west and a clear sky with a sliver of moonlight. The combo of my DPMS AR-10/243 loaded with 87 VMAX'S and the D760 is sudden death on varmints..... I had killed a 10- point buck earlier this week and put the carcass 200 yards from my shooting bench.. This lovely couple came in for too close a look I got the female at 244 yards and she ran about 20 yards before collapsing with the other right behind her, he stopped and lights out for him, at a lazered 246 yds. I didn't need the intensifier at all due to the scopes brightness. I previously shot a couple of coons off a corn pile at 400 yards on a night with no moon and thick overcast skies and I only used the "low" setting with the intensifier.. I'm attaching photo's of the yotes. Thanks for your honesty and a superb product,

Mark Mark

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Hi Greg,

The D-760 you sent has exceeded my high expectations. The image clarity is exceptional and the distance from which you can identify targets is much further than the 400 yds listed on the spec sheet. On a full moon night it's like you are using a day scope with green sunlight. With no moon at all, it still works great, it just needs a little help from the illuminator. The 2 or 3 very small tube blemishes are unnoticeable during use of the scope and this tube clearly beats the others I've seen prior to my own purchase. The only regret I have in the purchase of this fine instrument is that I have opened Pandora's box. In the last 3 months I have bought another AR 15, this D-760, two suppressors, and I'm planning to add a 300 whisper and an AN/PVS-14 to the mix. All of this with the aim of calling predators and assassinating hogs in the dark.

Last night I went out hunting with the intent of calling coyotes. I pulled in, parked about 600 yards from the place I hoped to find one, and took my time gearing up to let things settle. About 30 minutes in, I was sitting under a 250 year-old Live Oak, looking around and I heard the shrill squeal of a pig about 400 yards away. This was the first sign of hogs in this area in months, so I was surprised and very excited. I moved silently under the full moon towards the sound I had heard, stopping occasionally to look around through the D-760. Soon enough I spotted 6 hogs grazing in small pasture about 400 yards away and began stalking in. When I got to the fence that surrounded the pasture they were not in sight. In a moment, two young pigs emerged from the brush followed by an older one. I watched them for a few moments about 150 yards across the field without illumination - clear as day. The two young pigs started chasing around and then headed straight for me. At this point I let the excitement get the best of me and decided to shoot them before they could detect me and alarm the others. I fired an offhand shot at one of the two running pigs and broke his shoulder without creating a mortal wound (time to get busy developing a load using the Swift Sirocco projectile). Long story short, after following a blood trail in the dark for 1/2 a mile for 3 hours I gave up on him and headed back to where I started. When I got there, I turned on the scope and stated looking around. What did I find but, a limping pig looking for his herd! This time I put it on him and put him in the cooler.

It wasn't the epic long head-shot or the 350 pound tusker I wish I could tell you about, but it was a totally new experience. The only hunt that was this exciting involved being challenged and surrounded by a herd of aggressive Javelina and killing one with a long bow. This scope is a game changing piece of equipment. It enables you to hunt hogs and predators when they are active and unsuspecting, use the cover of darkness to conceal yourself and kill them. Thanks for setting me up with the best!

Todd in Texas

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The video has lost it's clarity after taking 6 different re-recordings off the original DVD tape to get it on this page. As soon as I can figure how to get it direct I will load it up to get the resolution that we get on the TV. The opening of the video stream is with one down and a second coming in. Ben the camera man was looking behind me when the first one came in. Ben couldn't find it so it went down. I had gotten up and started to walk out to the dead coyote when the second one started to challenge bark us. I ran back to the camera and set back up. At the 40 second mark you can here the clicking. I had put the safety back on and fore got to take it off as the coyote came in and turned sideways for a perfect shot. The first shot was a heart shot. The third shot running hit both rear knee caps and rolled him. The first coyote was 106 paces and the second was 88 paces on the first shot. This was the third stand of the night 11:00 pm with a total of 4 coyotes down and one miss.

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       Why have and use Night Vision for coyotes? Well I have two very good answers. The first you just can't get enough
   of it during the day light hours and you want to increase your pelt count for the year end. The second is you only have so
   many weekends to hunt them, usually the best success and pelts are from late Nov to mid Jan And in that time frame
   weather, obligations to your kids and the honey do's for your bride take a toll on those weekends. So the average guy
   gets two to three days out of 10 or 12 weeks.. Answer # 2 doesn't apply to myself and the other single guy's that put

       Now follow this, it's Tuesday evening 8:30 PM mid November, nothing on TV, the kids starting to go to bed maybe,
   the wife is watching a really enlightening program on liberal Democrats. Outside it's about 30 degrees the wind is dead
   calm with a quarter moon with slight overcast and you seen a pair of coyotes on the way home from work working a
   hay field. Well in 1 to 2 hours you can make 3 to 5 stands. Get back to the house as the news is ending without another
   wasted evening and not in trouble for having some quality time.

       This is what has worked for me. I'm in the shop and just finishing up on a rifle 9:00 PM and my hunting buddy Gary
   Campbell will call and say he saw a coyote at dusk working a field. I just put on some warm clothes. Grab the
   AR-15 with Night Vision and my NV 14 mini monocular on a flip up mount and head out to the hay field. Man they
   come in so fast under the cover of dark it's a rush. The darker out the better.

       I have hunted coyotes for two season's with night vision and in this short time I have come up with a system that
   works not only for myself but others that have tried and have hunted coyotes at night. This is why you won't see every
   product listed for sale by each company. Most of the Night vision is for and compared to human size detection, recog-
   nition and target acquisition. A coyote is only so high off the ground and only has so much back ground contrast depending
   on the terrain ground cover you are hunting.

       I have spent the money on the good and the bad. Yes I was lied to on many of the products as how they would
    perform and work on coyotes. I lost and wasted a lot of money because of someone on the other end of the line just
   wanting a sale of their product! The only people I have found that have hunted coyotes with night vision are people in
   the general public. And almost all of them have a sob story.

      This is where GRE-TAN RIFLES comes in. Knowing that the guys out there that hunt coyotes for the most part only
   want to purchase once and have what they can afford work as stated to them. Yes the more you spend the better it
   gets, but not always. There are some good products out there that are sometimes half the cost of another brand and
   work just as well and sometimes better. Seeing is believing and we have done side by side comparisons here out in
   the field with different brands and price ranges. The most expensive $7,400.00 to $1,800.00 per unit.

      I'm in the middle of filming a total stealth Night Vision video of calling in, taking and missing coyotes with different
   night vision products. I mounted night vision optics to a digital video camera and have some fantastic footage that will
   be available on a 2 hr. video in the near future. I have over $50,000.00 invested in night vision equipment finding out
   what works and how effective the different products are, so take advantage of this acquired knowledge instead of
   spending on blind faith from someone that sells what they make. I want you as a consumer to purchase what will work for
   you the first time within your budget. I do consulting on products and have your best interest in mind, I'm not tied to
   one manufacturer or distributor, you can purchase from anyone out there, but the fee is 100% refunded on products
   purchased from GRE'-TAN RIFLES.

Taken about Mid night w/ full moon. Cannon Digital Rebel XL with night vision monocle mounted to camera