Hello everyone,
I'm not a tech geek nor have I learned a lot about how thermal imaging works or what options are out there. So I'm hoping someone here may know.
I'm looking for a thermal imaging device (scope, binocular, monocular, etc.) that will reach out to at least 500 yards and identify a human sized target.
I know there's a bunch out there from Flir, Pulsar, etc. BUT they all have additional features like sights, picture taking, or video (I don't want or need it, therefore I don't want to pay for it
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I just want a plain-jane basic basic basic thermal imaging device that'll reach out to the range I'm looking at.
Would anyone know where I should be looking?
Thanks!
I could not find the exact model of my scope I bought a couple years back.
It most definitely is a Pulsar, . . . it is an X something 50, . . . goes from 1 to 12 magnification, . . . does not have the multi-hued colors for heat tracking, . . . your choice is white hot or black hot. Personally I use white hot about all the time and it works great for me.
I promise you that you can most definitely see a human being and determine that to be so at 500 yds.
After I got mine, . . . I went down to the local reservoir one night, . . . stood up on the top of the boat ramp, . . . looking out over the water to "see what I could see".
One was a couple of white lights looked about 10 ft apart on the other side of the water, . . . turned out thru the scope to be a little pram, . . . with three guys in it fishing, . . . and I could see that the middle guy was the anchor for a good reason, . . . he had a "large" footprint.
Upstream from them was a dude in a vietnam style jungle jacket, . . . and a floppy hat, . . . fly fishing in the dead of the dark. I could not see his line moving, . . . but I could see his fly rod going back and forth.
Later, I picked out a buck deer in a bean field at a little over 400 yds away, . . .
I determined the distance on these, . . . using Google Earth, . . .
Possums are discernible at 200 yds, . . . same with bunnies, . . . skunks look all white (lol) but you can still tell what they are.
I bought a "soon to be discontinued" model when I did for a bit of a discount, . . . but mainly because it uses standard C123 batteries (2) and I did not want a "rechargeable" unit, . . . never have had great luck with them.
Mine does not have a camera within it, . . . but it does have an electronic feed, . . . I can hook it up to a cheap 10 inch television screen using an RCA jack, . . . and it shows me what the scope is seeing. I could rig up a recorder and record that, . . . but I haven't yet.
Anyway, . . . I spent a year looking and searching, . . . started to get their XP38, . . . but it became discontinued, . . . jumped up to the X something 50 I've got.
You have my recommendation for it. It cost me 2700 when I got it.
Here is an article about them, . . . diddle down to the listings, . . . the pulsar there touted as #1 is the "next version" of the one I bought.
https://bobergarms.com/thermal-scope/
May God bless,
Dwight
May God bless,
Dwight