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thermal red-dot optic discussion
thermal for home defense
magnifier shopping and red-dot placement
white light only for class prep

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We Like Shooting 674 – Awesome (2026-08-04) · We Like Shooting 681 – Asteriskes (2026-09-22) · Double Tap 482 – Turkodactyl (2026-10-06)

thermal red-dot optic discussion

“And basically, I just did the same thing. I always do crack jokes and whatnot. I sat in and did an episode of the state of the second podcast with john and kaylee and yeah just stayed pretty busy it was pretty jam-packed schedule the whole time but it was fun i had a good time as far as the things that i was interested to look at i will say that i looked at the infatec have you seen the infatec stuff jeremy it is thermal red dots basically for your pistols or i mean rifles whatever but it's a thermal that it has a red dot is it like the the sig uh what was that the it's like the sig red dot but it was all thermal what the fuck was that thing called i don't know looks like about that so it's like the mailbox style um here i'll show see these yeah i can't see shit oh sorry i thought i was sharing it add to stage there we go so i went over finally took a look at these they're like 700 bucks but it is echo three that's what it is yeah i'm not sure but these are like you know uh acro style red dot thing 699 bucks they have two different versions the one has a 300 meter detection range and one has a 500 meter detection range i think the net d on the less expensive one was about 25 and 20 on the other one so like pretty small resolutions as well 384 by 288 on the more expensive one and 256 by 192 but at the same time like kind of a kind of a cool thing you can change the palettes of the normal you can change the color of the crosshair you can change the shape of the the red dot whatever i don't know i think i think they're pretty cool and i think that this might be a pretty awesome thing even detection range 300 to 500 didn't really matter to me a whole lot just because it's a pistol like how far do i need to see so yeah i think i think it's pretty cool i was i was looking at these before then they had another one that was like mounts to your rifle but also mounts to your helmet in a monocular and you can broadcast what's being shown on your rifle in the monocular and like a picture in picture in the monocular as well.”

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And basically, I just did the same thing. I always do crack jokes and whatnot. I sat in and did an episode of the state of the second podcast with john and kaylee and yeah just stayed pretty busy it was pretty jam-packed schedule the whole time but it was fun i had a good time as far as the things that i was interested to look at i will say that i looked at the infatec have you seen the infatec stuff jeremy it is thermal red dots basically for your pistols or i mean rifles whatever but it's a thermal that it has a red dot is it like the the sig uh what was that the it's like the sig red dot but it was all thermal what the fuck was that thing called i don't know looks like about that so it's like the mailbox style um here i'll show see these yeah i can't see shit oh sorry i thought i was sharing it add to stage there we go so i went over finally took a look at these they're like 700 bucks but it is echo three that's what it is yeah i'm not sure but these are like you know uh acro style red dot thing 699 bucks they have two different versions the one has a 300 meter detection range and one has a 500 meter detection range i think the net d on the less expensive one was about 25 and 20 on the other one so like pretty small resolutions as well 384 by 288 on the more expensive one and 256 by 192 but at the same time like kind of a kind of a cool thing you can change the palettes of the normal you can change the color of the crosshair you can change the shape of the the red dot whatever i don't know i think i think they're pretty cool and i think that this might be a pretty awesome thing even detection range 300 to 500 didn't really matter to me a whole lot just because it's a pistol like how far do i need to see so yeah i think i think it's pretty cool i was i was looking at these before then they had another one that was like mounts to your rifle but also mounts to your helmet in a monocular and you can broadcast what's being shown on your rifle in the monocular and like a picture in picture in the monocular as well.
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“Uh, no, no, I did not get to see these. I walked past a couple of times, but every time there were a bunch of people there, I was like, I'll come back later. that was exactly it and then eventually i finally found them when they weren't too busy but yeah the they have some pretty cool stuff and i was pretty interested to see that for the first time in person like i had heard about them i know we talked about them on the show but this is the first time that i had seen them and i think it's really quite cool and you know like i'm sure this is just you know chinese made stuff but like i don't care about that at all i think that it's a cool novel application of thermal and i would like to see more so nick what got you stoked oh man so many so many things that i can't even i don't even know how to narrow it down to one you're lying um i'm gonna be honest i thought that i was concerned that maybe i am getting jaded or something and I Probably am.”

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Uh, no, no, I did not get to see these. I walked past a couple of times, but every time there were a bunch of people there, I was like, I'll come back later. that was exactly it and then eventually i finally found them when they weren't too busy but yeah the they have some pretty cool stuff and i was pretty interested to see that for the first time in person like i had heard about them i know we talked about them on the show but this is the first time that i had seen them and i think it's really quite cool and you know like i'm sure this is just you know chinese made stuff but like i don't care about that at all i think that it's a cool novel application of thermal and i would like to see more so nick what got you stoked oh man so many so many things that i can't even i don't even know how to narrow it down to one you're lying um i'm gonna be honest i thought that i was concerned that maybe i am getting jaded or something and I Probably am.
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thermal for home defense

“Exactly the same use case. Like I, this is the one area where like a thermal would be pretty good for like a home, an inside home defense gun. Um, because the outline is good.”

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Exactly the same use case. Like I, this is the one area where like a thermal would be pretty good for like a home, an inside home defense gun. Um, because the outline is good.
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“You can still see through it. You have a big, huge window to be able to see through it. Like, I just think that overall it's like a thermal and night vision for home defense.”

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You can still see through it. You have a big, huge window to be able to see through it. Like, I just think that overall it's like a

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thermal

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and night vision for home defense.

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magnifier shopping and red-dot placement

“Hollow Sun. Uh, I'd been talking to him a little bit and I'd been shopping for a magnifier. I think I talked, I've mentioned that a couple of times too, that I've been looking at magnifiers and I wanted to try one over, uh, you a PVO, like a red dot with a magnifier. So I was like, Hey, uh, the last time we saw him was in, was that Ohio?”

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Hollow Sun. Uh, I'd been talking to him a little bit and I'd been shopping for a magnifier. I think I talked, I've mentioned that a couple of times too, that I've been looking at magnifiers and I wanted to try one over, uh, you a PVO, like a red dot with a magnifier. So I was like, Hey, uh, the last time we saw him was in, was that Ohio?
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“I agree. I agree with Nick. Uh, so as you can see, perspective is weird. As you can see here, as usual, my Foxtrot night, my Foxtrot, Mike foldy boy, uh, Mike nine, I have the Gideon optic directly centered above the ejection port.”

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I agree. I agree with Nick. Uh, so as you can see, perspective is weird. As you can see here, as usual, my Foxtrot night, my Foxtrot, Mike foldy boy, uh, Mike nine, I have the Gideon optic directly centered above the ejection port.
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white light only for class prep

“And I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I need to get all my guns ready, get the lights, make sure I have batteries, make sure everything's zeroed. I'm not. I'm going to do any night vision stuff or thermal.”

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And I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I need to get all my guns ready, get the lights, make sure I have batteries, make sure everything's zeroed. I'm not. I'm going to do any night vision stuff or thermal.

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“I may take it just for fun, but I'm really just going to use white light for this class. That's what I'm mostly interested in. But this is from Highlands Defense, and that's at highlandsdefense.com.”

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I may take it just for fun, but I'm really just going to use white light for this class. That's what I'm mostly interested in.

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But this is from Highlands Defense, and that's at highlandsdefense.com.

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