Looked at some vids posted on Texas Hunting Forum and I have very mixed impressions. Not doubt it is an absolutely functional thermal scope. However, the picture quality isn't impressive. The auto calibrate function happens about every 20 seconds or so for the first couple of minutes until the unit warms up and that produces image freezes (probably for about 1/2 second intervals) which I could see as being problematic. You can hook up an external battery, but then you can't run video at the same time. Operation time is considerable, several hours, which is more than sufficient for most folks who don't spot through their rifle scopes.
The low end scope is rather pathetic (resolution is just too low) and when you get into the upper end RS scopes, you are getting into the price range of other thermal scopes out there and based on the videos online, have better image quality for a comparable and sometimes lessor price. In short, you aren't getting a reasonable 200 yard thermal scope for $3500, more like a 50 yard thermal...which isn't much good. Yeah, you can see stuff beyond 50, but that doesn't mean you can begin to identify it properly.
As DFWroadkill keeps telling me, so many of the manufacturers come up with some neat stuff on their units, and then make some strange decisions that really detract from the overall usability or even functionality.
FLIR moved in the right direction to come up with something of an "every person" thermal rifle scope, but they also made some strange and sometimes problematic compromises to do so.
