Sightmark Wraith Digital Night Vision Riflescope: Reviewed By A Ranger

This Sightmark riflescope has a really impressive detection range of 274 meters (300 yards). Here's my hands-on review.

FYI, prices and ratings are accurate as of time of writing.

Night vision works by seeing infrared light, so this scope needs an emitter to send the IR light ahead of the shooter. Emitters can be placed in areas like a sheep pen or chicken coop and flood the area with invisible light until the scope is used. Suppose I look at my security cameras when they go into night mode. In that case, they flood the area with IR light, and it looks like a headlight across the yard when looking from night vision cameras.

Anyway, if you need impressive detection range and want a true riflescope rather than standard night vision binoculars, I'd definitely recommend the Sightmark Wraith. It's not cheap, but it's not incredibly expensive. And you really get what you pay for in this case.

Now, I don't know what you're going to use it for, but if you need something simpler, check out my ranking of the best night vision goggles. I included different options for all kinds of uses.

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Sightmark Wraith - Digital Night Vision Riflescope

HIGHLIGHT:

Allows you to shoot in the dark.

DIGITAL VIEWFINDER:

The 4K Night Vision scope is basically a camera that sees IR light and uses a reticle to place bullets. When I look through the scope, I am not looking from one end down the tube and out the front; I am looking in the viewfinder and watching a screen. When a very bright light, such as a flashlight or flare, is directed at the Wraith, the display becomes extremely bright. Note that its setup has three brightness levels to fit the shooter's vision and comfort.

POWER REQUIREMENTS:

The scope uses four double-A batteries. This scope, and for that matter, any night vision scope, is a battery hog, so keep spares in your pocket, maybe two reloads of batteries.

MEMORY SETTINGS:

This scope stores up to five rifles in its memory, which is supposed to allow the scope to be moved from one rifle to another. However, I don't think I will trust that much without a sighting-in session to ensure accuracy. When I pull the trigger, it is a 30-caliber bullet flying downrange, after all. I need to know where it is going.

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

This scope is the magic solution for those who need to take out wild boars, coyotes, or other things that should not sneak around in the dark. The only drawback of a night vision scope is that it only works in the dark.

IMAGE QUALITY:

When looking at a target, I couldn't find any distortion or fuzz around the image edges, even when rain or clouds interfered with my hunting. The scope never failed. It always performed just like it did the day I took it out of the box.

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