I am looking for a range near Augusta to zero NV+Laser and practice.

[11B3Y]

Greetings everyone,

I am new to the forum and was reading through as many posts as I could. I haven't seen any mention of a suitable range for after dark shooting. Are there any near Augusta?

Thanks in advance for reading and for any responses, suggestions.

[prc-104]

My pre-range visit setup is (in the dark)
(involves no bullet shooting)
Rifle (or whatever) in a good support fixture and lock it down.aiming at your 100m target, 200, whatever.
use a red laser in the barrel (back end of the barrel of course.) and align your sight to what the red dot is hitting (keeping your daylight pinhole cap on your nvg.
Now your NVG sight should be looking dead center at what you'd see if you pulled the bolt and looked down the barrel.
Now use the IR laser, you can adjust it to see the deadcenter point of what the NVG is looking at.
Lastly if you're curious, you can put an IR laser in the barrel (back end of course) ( I just use an IR LED, works for me) and the first laser should be right with the one shooting thru the barrel. Also, your nvg should be seeing both IR dots in it's dead center.
Then you're aligned for left and right and all you have left is elevation for range you'll be aiming for but when you find a range you should be pretty close.

Hope this helps some. My .22's were obviously under 100 yards so setting was easier, 7.64x54 was a bit rougher but not much.

[11B3Y]

I appreciate the detailed response.
I'll follow those steps.
Sounds quite straightforward actually.
Didn't think of zero'ing at home but it makes total sense.
Thanks prc-104.

[Lowdown3]

If you have a zeroed daylight optic on the rifle- turn on and lock on (3rd position) the OTAL-C. Be sure to remove the output cover like I mentioned when we met up. Place the rifle someplace stable, doesn't have to be a vise, just as stable as you can get. Point the zeroed daylight optic aiming point at something approximately 25 yards out (to begin with) and then with the PVS14 down, check and see where the IR laser dot is in relation to the daylight aiming point. Move the IR laser dot to match up.

With two people, one holds the rifle steady at an aiming point 25 yards away, another has the NODs and views and adjusts the IR laser output.

At class we staple paper plates to the targets and check IR zero at 25 with those.

This will get you on, you can make tweaks from there and/or change zero from there.

This is the simplest and quickest method. At class we pair people up that need to zero or check zero, explain the procedure and they do it themselves in just a few minutes.

[Lowdown3]

As far as a range near Augusta, I know there are ranges up there. The problem is most "open to the public" ranges are staffed by old codger range Nazis who won't allow you to do any movement, shoot more than 1 round every so often, change positions and of course most of them have night shooting as taboo.

What you can do at home-
*Do a rough zero on your IR laser like we covered.
*Practice walking around in and spending time with your 14.
*Do little exercises with your 14 on like learning to judge distance and depth perception by walking up to things like a fence post, tree branch, etc. At first walk up to something with your arm out fingers forward and move to where your fingertips start to touch the object. Do that a couple times then try to move to that same spot without using your arm as a gauge, get to where you think that spot is and then raise your arm and check it.
*Practice ready up with dry fire engaging the IR laser momentarily right before you dry fire.
*Practice your reloads and malfunction drills in the dark, focus on doing these by feel not by needing a lot of visual input- head up.
*Remove the rubber eye cup -if you installed it- and make sure the 14 is run out from the face a bit on the helmet mount- this will help if you wear glasses or are experiencing fogging.

Come to class :)

[11B3Y]

Will be starting this weekend on all your suggestions. Thanks again, and am looking forward to the MR class this coming Feb.

[Lowdown3]

Look forward to seeing you again.