Soviet Bazaar PNS 4.6x52

Very good for the price .if you would like better spend more

money

I have a Soviet Bazaar PNS 4.6x52 night vision scope and it's a waste of space. Very short range at only 20 yards.

I tried to improve it, and boy have I just. First I fitted my lightforce 140 gun light on it, with an IR filter from Codra fitted over the light, and oh boy what a scope it is now... well over 80 yards. It's a very bright pitcher too. The lightforce has a dimmer switch fitted to it, and that's very handy to have if your close range shooting. I can target a rabbit at 90 yards just fine now in total darkness. It's a lot cheaper than a laser, and it only cost me £20 for the IR filter. I cut it to size myself. So try this out first. Don't go out and pay for a new laser you don't need! Only one word of warning... Don't have the light on for a long time (like 10 minutes) as it gets very hot. You can't really see the light very well, just a very dim red glow, but it still gets hot. This idea will work well on any night scope, and will improve them all no end, at a very cheap price, with no costly lasers to get. You're still humping around your old light, and it can still be used for normal lamping if you want to.

Good hunting - mine is now!

I don't have any problems with rats, I just like paper target shooting in the dark!

I bought a really cheap, second-hand PN-1 riflescope from http://www.airpistol.co.uk/ which kept me happy for almost two weeks until I got fed up with its archaic zeroing system.

Enter the Soviet Bazaar PNS 4.6x52. It arrived as promised 2 working days after ordering from Soviet Bazaar. At first I ordered a reconditioned PNS but changed my mind and amended the order by phone to a new one as it came with full 12 month warranty and wasn't that much more expensive than the reconditioned model. (the price of the recon was £199 on the advert, £219 when added to basket...?)

When I opened the package, it exceeded my expectations considerably. The advert didn't mention that the sight came with a free HTH-204 illuminator which normally sells at £78, nor did they mention that the sight itself takes cheap and common 9v PP3 batteries (the web spec only mentioned the expensive CR123 cells required by the unmentioned HTH-204 illuminator.)

When I fisrt mounted the sight on my Crosman 2260, at 20 yards (indoors,) my shots were firing wildly low and to the right. The windage controls managed to easily adjust to perfect horizontal accuracy but even when fully lowered, the elevation was about 2 feet low (at 20 yards!) The solution was to insert two credit card thickness shims between the scope and the mounts at the rear of the sight to give the correct angle for accurate sightage. Maybe I'm missing something but without these shims, the sight would have been completely useless for anything more than 10 feet away!

However, with minimal tweaking I'm able to hit 20 yard targets with groupings of about 2 inches. Pretty good for me who's not a very good shot even in daylight.

I had a slight issue with rats in the back garden. They were coming in from an old (disused)railway embankment that runs alongside my home. I could have left them for the cats but why should they have all the fun !!

I purchased the PNS 4.6x52 from Soviet Bazaar for about £325.

The build quality isn't brilliant and it is quite tricky to put onto the dove tail scope rails. I went for the slightly more expensive of the 2 (Pro). The difference is that with the Pro there is an additional infa red torch on the top. This 'torch' does have a tendancy to fall off so I have now stuck this on with a cable tie.

I do believe in the saying 'You pay for what you get' and in this case it is true, although, the PNS Pro has done the job for me. I only really needed to see for about 20 - 25 metres and this I could do fine. You can easily see what you are looking at (Hedgehog, rat, cat etc), and it picks out the eves of an animal before anything else.

If you are considering purchasing one for use with an air rifle in your back garden or not having to walk for miles with it, buy one. I would reconsider if you were going to walk for miles with it or use on a shot gun.

I am happy with the PNS PRO as I know I went for the lower end of the market (Didn't really want to spend £1000 to shoot rats!!) as I was only after vermin locally. I often use when not attached to my air rifle just to see what is happening at night when there is little or no light around.