I’m trying to mount a pvs-14 in front or behind an Elcan spectre DR, and having problems finding a mounting solution. First off, I see most set ups mount the NV in front of the optic but it poses a few problems. When I look through the NV with the elcan behind it, I lose a great deal of brightness and the crosshairs are hardly visible unless lit. It also causes the red dot to be green and the elcan blocks a portion of the IR light again causing limited effectiveness. Another problem is that I would have to mount the elcan further forward on my rail, so that when I’m not using the NV it’s too far away from my eye for proper FOV/eye relief. Then of course the BUIS issue, I would need a cantilever style mount to clear the BUIS and in turn would raise the height of the NV making it even harder to co-witness with the elcan. Is there a reason why you would mount the NV ahead of the optic? Or is it ok to mount the NV behind the optic so I would be looking through the elcan first, then the NV. My last issue is an actual mount that would work best for my needs… I am mounting it on my MR223 and have a lot of rail space to play with.
First, PVS-14’s are not made to be mount in FRONT of a day optic, that is usually reserved for the PVS-22 Clip on style of optics. Too much POA/POI impact issues result with mounting the 14 out front among other light gathering issues at times.
Putting the 14 behind the DR’s do actually work well, but as you mentioned one has to mount the DR a bit forward on the gun causing ones noise to be a bit over the charging handle.
The last review I did of the DR showed the red dot NV settings itself did well with NOD’s, but the reticle itself was a bit too bright.
Here is an older picture taken several years ago. Far target 200m away. The slight off center (upper right) is from the camera not align well, but the overall views are very good using the 14 behind the DR.
