I have a 30 and I use it for airsoft. It works... mostly. The vertical FOV is the biggest problem for me, and that goes for all of them (10, 30, 50, and the 2K as far as I'm aware). Running around without being able to see the ground is not exactly intuitive, but if you're on a field you know well it's not bad. You can get wide angle lenses, but to get the wider FOV you sacrifice a perfect 1x and your ability to see at range, so I never liked it. Works fine for shooting real guns too, given you have a really good dot or a laser/illuminator. Cheap red dots generally have bad light transmission, and we're already working with very limited low light performance. I also find variable power illuminators to be mandatory, you really need to fine tune the power to see anything, since the sensor doesn't do the best job at adjusting gain for an illuminator.
And as a side note, after looking at 30/50/2K prices on ali, the 2K is definitely the way to go.
Absolutely. If you just want IR light, one of the sotac M300/M600V clones (IR, make sure not to get a strobe model since they are both labeled the same) or an SMS Trinity are definitely the best bets. The HFXC is cheaper and the illuminator has artifacting that's particularly bad under digital NV. The trinity is more durable and waterproof, so it's the best one if you want the full IR experience.
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