re: Thermal recommendations

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Willing to spend up to 4K, using for hogs and yotes at night. Going on a 6.5 Grendel, some places we have roads that you can see 5-600 yards on but don’t necessarily want to shoot that far. Want to be able to identify though.

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Honestly I think you have a couple issues. For that distance, a $4k budget wouldn’t cut it, at least for me. You’d probably want the most badass Pulsar or ATN product in the $6k+ range. Secondly is your choice of cartridge. Figure out how far you want to shoot. If it’s more than about 200 yards, you’ll want a good range finder too. More than 300 yards I’d recommend a bigger round like 6.5PRC or 6.8 Western or even 308 or 300 Win Mag.

If you are good with 200-300 yards being the max range, keep the Grendel and you might be OK with a $4k thermal.

I don’t know if you can get a 640 resolution thermal for that price. Maybe? Definitely a 320 or 384 resolution for $4k.

You definitely want a spotter/scanner monocular. Don’t want to be swinging that gun everywhere looking for hogs from field to field or even in a stationary setting. Swinging the gun around gets old. Get at least a 320 or 384 monocular.