Tell me about thermal scopes

ATN used to be shite but theyve come a long way. their autogated PVS14s and the THOR/Odin units are quality stuff. FLIR, L3, Trijicon are all nice

that pic doesn't look right. when's the last time you've calibrated it?

Problem with ATN is that they don't manufacture their IIT's and microbolometers, they buy them from other manufactures and house them.

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Not to shite on your scope but that is a terrible thermal image for 20 yds.

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I don't have any attachment to this scope like I said I can still return it. I was just curious if anyone on here had actually used different specific models and how they compared to each other.

Check out the pulsar line. I have a apex xq50 on order rt now. Ive used the apex xd75a in the past a works great for hog hunting less than 150 yrds. The apex xq50 runs around 2700.

Idk one of the videos of the pts233 I saw you could clearly see the rack.

Just because the rack doesn't have as high of a heat signature as the rest of the body does not mean that t becomes invisible.

Thermal works off of contrasting heat signatures so it would require the rack and whatever its background is in front of to have the same heat signature (very unlikely).

Hell you can even see waves rippling in one of the videos I saw

Yea it is on black hot in that picture. This scope seems to show deer better at a distance with black hot. What scope do you have?

Got a buddy that just bought the newest FLIR and loves it. Had some video from his back yard. Looks good, and for the money, was a really good deal.

I have a trijicon IR Hunter Mk3 (35mm)

-The image is unmatched to anything else I have looked at, ATN thor, flir etc. There is absolutely no lag in the display and the image is disturbingly vivid.

-Because the controls are standard "scope style" turrets, the unit is very simple to use and I can run the menus and calibrations without coming off the scope.

- This is one of the gripes about the REAP-IR as it has a toggle stick to run the menus and can be cumbersome to toggle with gloves on. I could imagine the same could be said about the push buttons on most other branded thermals.

- The IR Hunter does lack some handy features that a lot of the other brands have, such as internal memory and recording capability (you have to run an external DVR to record)

My brother just ordered a pulsar so I'm excited to look through it and compare. But at the end of the day its apples and oranges because the cheaper units are adding convenient features rather than increasing the processing capacity to provide a better image. Not knocking them by any means because I wish my tijicon had some of those features (especially for what it costs), I just personally wanted the highest quality image available.


i'm running the IR Hunter on an 8" 300blk right now until my 12.5" Grendel barrel comes in