Hey Terry - in your view If both the reap and xp are similar in price which one would you get?
The Reap-IR is a bad boy very compact and lite weight plus awesome image clarity. Truly a professional feeling system. I really like mine however it's not perfect software wise. Mine sometimes freezes up I have to remove batteries to reset it. It's a rare event and I would consider it normal from owning dozens of thermal scopes/mono's over the years. Overall it's really nice and high performing only draw back is Price.
I've only used the XP38 Trail a few times in the field maybe 12 hours so far. I'm very impressed with the scope so far. The battery pack system is awesome, internal recording is awesome and the OLED eye piece is very nice also. The software runs really smooth it seems more refined than my ReapIR. The overall image clarity is maybe 90% that of the ReapIR which for thousands less is pretty impressive.
Overall both are really nice, but for the price I would save the money and go Trail XP50 vs Reap-IR. If money is no object than buy the Reap-IR it's Awesome system.
With the money saved you could buy a nice thermal scanner also .