Thermal monocular

[Dinosaur1]

What's the best thermal vision monocular under a grand. There are a lot of reviews out there but I'd like to hear from this crowd. I tried the basic ATN scope with IR and it wasn't for me. I don't need a scope with WiFi a compass, Blue Tooth and a barometer. I just want to turn it on and look through it. Not gonna go over a grand so I've been looking at the basic Leupolds etc.

 

[6.8KT]

I don't know, but having it would be like having a superpower in certain situations.

 

[Gordon]

Night vision with IR booster are not Thermal. ATN is releasing a basic THERMAL scope with advanced electronics but none of the bells and whistles you mentioned for Around a Grand$ list. Stay tuned a month or so and that might get you a day and night use real Thermal type scope for under that figure. Looks pretty compact too. My 4k Atn non Thermal scope with IR booster is working real well on my 6.5 creedmore and with quick release mounts is able to switch between formats and remember the zero for each ! Amazing. I have not had any issues. They have great online support

https://www.atncorp.com/thermal-scope-thor-lt-3-6x

 

[Dinosaur1]

Yeah. Aware of the diff between IR and thermal. What I sent back was the ATN scope. Too many bells and whistles. Haven't figured out why the average coyote hunter would want to know the barometric pressure when he looked through the scope. Maybe at a thousand yards a certain percentage of night hunters worry about the flight of the bullet or maybe they don't know if it's going to rain. I don't know. At any rate, what I thought I'd go to is a thermal monocular for scanning and then a barrel mounted shooting light. I've called them in at night but they're always right in my lap and then scoot if I scan with a light. With thermal maybe I'd get a little heads up. Just interested if anyone else was working that set up. Will keep an eye on the ATN sight however.

 

[SharpDog]

I just received my Flir scout today. Very small, light and easy to use. Can see a man or deer sized target to the end of the street, maybe 100 yds away. Extreme range would be maybe 2x that far but it would have to be under very good conditions ... low IR noise.

Paid $549 at Amazon (they go for $599 but you can always get them for $549 if you wait a week or two).



Mfg site:
https://www.flir.com/products/scout-tk/

Amazon:
https://smile.amazon.com/FLIR-Scout-Pocket-Sized-Thermal-Monocular/dp/B01APT3LF6

 

[jmorris]

This is some cows about 350 yards behind a large oak tree with a cheap seek thermal. You can tell something is there but not what it is.



It’s much better suited to see where a radiator is clogged though.



Only other thermals I have used are way above $1000 but some day they will be cheap as happens with all electronics.

Just think of the TI Datamath, 4 function calculator that cost over $100, back when a $100 would get you a lot more than a tank of fuel. Now the bank gives away solar powered calculators with memory, square root and other functions, like lollipops...

 

[ATLDave]

Now the bank gives away solar powered calculators with memory, square root and other functions, like lollipops...

LOL! Do they give out goose quill pens, too? For about 99+% of the population that uses banks, the built-in calculator function on their phone supplanted stand-alone calcs some years ago! Which just further proves your point: The device used to be valuable and expensive, then became so commoditized that it could be given away as a loss leader, and then became so cheap to replicate that it literally got included for free as a mere function in a more complex product.

But a lot of places do give away USB flash drives that can hold more data than [large quantity of archaic digital data storage medium here].

 

[greyling22]

The $500 flir works, but I always with it was a lot better.