Thermal Scope Question

Thanks Bandit.
Do you own one?

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Then dont do it, bc you will be wasting money

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Any specific reasons why?

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decent thermal and cheap don’t go hand in hand

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Exactly this.

Just bought the Thor 4 2x8.

So far I have been very pleased.

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Just bought the Thor 4 2x8.

So far I have been very pleased.

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LW, were you able to find any deals or a good place to buy it?

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Max distance of 100 yards with most being in the 40-70 yard range.

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Listen my friend. I know thermal is king, but for what you are doing and the budget you describe you need to try digital night vision first. Go to Academy and buy the Sightmark Photon scope, it will be less than $500. Mount it and use it first to see if it works for you. I have this exact setup on my 6.5 grendel AR and it is a hog slaying monster. With the onboard IR I can see out to 150 yards or so. Hogs care absolutely nothing about the IR, I usually walk up to 30 yards or so while they are rooting in fields and start cutting them down. The one caveat is thick woods, IR will wash out in woods so if you are hunting in dense woods then suck it up and go thermal.

If you don’t like it and still want thermal you can easily sell it and go that direction, but man don’t drop 4x-10x as much money when you don’t have to...

Thanks for the responses guys. Good info.
I’ll look into a few other options suggested.

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Say whaaa? Why?

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Their consumer hunting sales division is no more. Marine, security, and all the other consumer divisions still exist.

Think of it more of a consolidation.

They bought armasight in like 2016ish. They are using flir cores and processors in those units that say “armasight by flir”.

The FLIR consumer division was its own separate entity and was draining money. If you’ve already got the infrastructure built in a company that you own, why duplicate resources? Honestly I’m surprised it took them this long to do it.

The still supply cores to a bunch of thermal “manufacturers”.

Southerntiger83, Not really. I know the price goes up big time with magnification. 3-8 is plenty for what I need. I can pick things out and 400-500 yards. Can identify 200 and in. I'm not going to be making 500 yards at night. I'm just looking to shoot pigs within a couple hundred yards and in.