Target-Sight.com Turnkey 1000-Yard Target-Cam System
When you’re practicing or developing loads at long range, it can be a challenge to see your bullet holes on the target, even with a premium spotting scope. Yes, when viewing conditions are perfect, a top spotting scope such as the 88mm Kowa Prominar can resolve 6mm bullet holes at 600 yards and beyond. However, when there is dust or mist in the air, or when the mirage gets thick and heavy, even the best spotting scope may be unable to resolve bullet holes clearly at just 300 yards.
That’s why, if you do much long-range shooting, you should consider getting a wireless target-cam system. This combines a video camera placed near the target with a monitor on your shooting bench. The image from the camera is sent wirelessly to a receiver hooked up to your monitor. With a good camera and quality electronics, a target-cam system can provide sharp images out to 1000 yards.
Until recently, good “turnkey” target-cam systems have been expensive — $1400.00 and up. Guys who couldn’t afford this investment have tried cobbling together systems from various parts. Sometimes the “home-built” systems work, but sometimes they are disappointing.
Turnkey Target-Cam Systems Starting at $725.00
Now Target-Sight.com offers complete Target-Cam systems starting at $725.00 (for 600-yard system). This includes everything you need: 27X Sony Video Camera, transmitter, receiver, color monitor, three Li-Ion batteries, AC adapters/battery chargers, and even the tripod. Or $800.00 buys Target-Sight’s complete 1000-yard system. It includes the same package of components, but with extended range.
Dan Norgrove, the man behind Target-Sight.com, has been able to source quality electronic components at very good prices. Accordingly, you may be able to buy a complete, field-tested Target-Sight system, for not much more than the cost of buying the hardware yourself. And if you put together a bunch of miscellaneous parts, you can’t be confident that they will all work together optimally. The Target-Sight systems work, have good battery life, and everything arrives in one box — delivered with free shipping.
We know that folks considering target-cam systems are justifiably cautious before they shell out hundreds of bucks. You want to be assured that the system is easy to set-up, functions right, and that the image on the monitor is sharp and clear. To satisfy those concerns, Dan Norgrove has created a video showing his Target-Sight system in use in the field. This video shows the actual image on the Monitor from a target-cam placed 300 yards away. (Please note this video is slow in sections because the field test is an uninterrupted “single take”. That way you can be confident there were no tricks done during the editing. What you see is what you get.)
Watch Target-Sight.com Target-Cam Field Test
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it would nice to see a demo with a NRA target with a black bull to see how well bullet holes in the black stand out on the video screen. And it also would be nice to see a demo at 1000yd to see how well the signal is transmitted.
EDITOR: I have suggested to Dan Norgrove that he produce a follow-up demo video. This could show different targets — black on white, blue on white 600-yard target, Shoot-N-C splatter targets on white, and white-painted steel. Dan understands the merits of doing a test at longer range. In this demo, he set the target at 300 yards so that you could still make out the target details with a camera positioned at the bench, which zooms all the way back to show the monitor at the bench. I asked him to do this continuous zoom to demonstrate that there was no switching or cutting to a different camera at closer range. FYI, purchasers of this system have reported no problems with signal reception, so long as the line-of-sight is not interrupted by hills or vegetation.
Another place to look is ebay under fpv remote control aircraft. some of those have a range of 6k and fit in a little model helicopter.
EDITOR: A remote airplane controller is a much different system than something which has to transmit live video. Much different functions and bandwidth requirements.
Another option–> Wifi IP camera. Put a higher gain antenna on it. Run a router on the other side with better antennas and 3rd party firmware. Will do 1k yards. Connect your laptop/tablet to the router. An IP Camera has a built in server that generates a webpage. Just point your browser to the IP address of the camera. Cameras go for about $120. Routers are $30. Find the right router and camera, and they’ll both run directly off 12 V batteries. Linksys WRT54G and the below linked Alfa camera both use 12 V DC. I prefer the Buffalo routers.
http://www.amazon.com/Alfa-Surveillance-Resolutions-Compression-Technology/dp/B0041ON1VG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1352146225&sr=8-2&keywords=alfa+camera+ip
EDITOR: Our IP guy has actually developed a set-up like this. And we even were able to display the camera output on a Kindle as well as a laptop. There are issues, however. Many laptops will only run 3 or 4 hours on their internals battery. The Cheap netcams don’t have very good resolution compared to the 27X Sony Target-Sight Uses — image sharpness loss was noticeable. Also, we didn’t have control over the signal from the camera. It appeared too small on some displays, and we didn’t have the ability to change contrast and/or go with a negative image (black to white) to make bullet holes appear better in the black. You have to look at total system cost, including batteries, antennas etc. We see the potential with a NetCam (Wifi Camera system), but it’s not a perfect solution.
EDITOR: A remote airplane controller is a much different system than something which has to transmit live video. Much different functions and bandwidth requirements.
Mike: Not the controller, there are guys flying models either viewing through goggles or a screen just like a pilot remotely flying a UAv they use 2.4 or 5.8ghz transmitters recievers high definition almost identical to what you have here.
seriously google it.. fpv model aircraft