TS25-384 rattler. 75yds at feeder, no hogs seen. 4x gets pretty grainy. Yes it is in focus, ~60F outside. Software update changed base to 1.5, max is 16x which would be worthless.
Yes.And what 10 year old thermal is that?
It is a thermal clip on. However I have seen some civilian models that are showing very high resolution. A friend of mine at Steiner/Burris let me play with the next gen one a couple months ago and they look absolutely beautiful. I would say take a look at what Burris is doing.Doc, appears to be a thermal clip-on behind a normal scope or a really high end IR (?). Yup optical magnification.
Thanks for the reviews. The debate on $$ vs utility is a tough one since I’ll only use it’s a handful of times a year.
With the money they saved, they have a small thermal handheld for scanning, because who wants to be waving a rifle around all night to see?
So you use the small handheld to spot hot targets (animals) and if you can't ID them well enough with your handheld thermal, then you can get a positive ID with your rifle's digital nv. That is the system I used for years.
If you are only hunting a few times a year, if it is primarily open terrain, digital NV might work well for you.
I'd sooner give up my thermal scope and go back to DNV, or even a green kill light mounted on the gun before I'd give up my thermal scanner. I wish I'd been properly schooled on it before I started spending money on night hunting stuff.