ATN OTS XLT Thermal Monocular w/ 50Hz Thermal Sensor, Smart Rangefinder, Classic Ergonomics, 10hrs+ Battery Power

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I have used this and a few that are way more expensive, so here is what I have learned. Thermals are very expensive for quality images. Does this compare to $3000-$6000 thermals? No, it does not. However, for the money you can get into the thermal game with a quality piece of equipment. Even though the more expensive machines give you way more detail and resolution, this will pick up the heat signature just like the expensive ones. I can see the heat on a cell tower a mile away from my front door. Up close the image is amazing. As you get farther away it's not as good, but that's how these things work. The sensitivity is great in an urban environment where there are drastic heat differences, but in the woods the image is faded a bit because the temps are all close except for the heat signature. That will stand out. As long as you understand that this is excellent for its price point you will be happy. If you want $3k performance for $500, you are not gonna find it here. Over all its a great entry level thermal.

Cumple lo que promete. Vas a recibir lo que describe en su anuncio, ni más ni menos. Si es bueno o malo no es el punto. Si lo que anuncian es lo que buscas eso recibirás.

First off, I got this as my "Amazon points treat" that I do every several years saving up cash back on my store card & I buy something crazy that I'd never pay cash for... This ended up costing me about $20 more than the points I'd saved up. Ease of use: The buttons are intuitive however are really hard to press. The unit came charged & I was using without looking at the directions within minutes. I ended up reading directions & the zoom feature is misleading. 2x-8x zoom comes in a single button that ONLY has 3 settings marked 1x, 2x, 4x. Being that it's 2x to start with, after doing the math you can see that you only get 2x, 4x & 8x options. Size: This is double the weight of the Flir and quite chunky; however, the size and weight are relatively nominal anyway. The extra features of the record & pic & long battery life are worth the size. Visibility: I will use this mainly for ratting around the property and with the first use, I got about 4x the shots compared to just using my ATN 4K Pro NV. Scanning with the monocular and then aiming with the NV is a bit clumsy since my pellet gun is heavy and using the trigger sticks means lots of balancing & holding & using right eye for scope & left for thermal. I'll get better at it, but for sitting & ratting, it's a must but there's a lot to juggle. Range. I have about 1/2 a mile of vacant desert behind me lined on the far side with houses. I easily saw people across this distance. Although they look like ghostly blobs when on white hot, I could tell they were people. I even aimed at an airplane in its final approach but was still a couple miles away and it picked up white hot on the plane. The plane's size appeared to be about the size of half a thumb, just for size reference. Will also be using to aid in downed big game and for coyote hunting to scan. I scanned from about 20 feet to a hundred yards or so & bunny rabbits glow bright white pretty vividly. anything past about 50 feet starts to get blobby but knowing what's in the field makes it so you know it's a rabbit, etc. Convenience: Being able to scan and not have to hold up a gun to scan is crucial. Not only is it easier to just scan, a person's coverage area of where to scan increases due to safety aspect of not wanting to point the gun at things that may not be targets. I also used it to look at my house to see where potential leaks are for heat escaping. Its amazing that there's some warmth in places I didn't suspect. Bottom line is I'm so happy that I finally got some usable thermal that has cool features & does what it says it does. This is my 2nd venture to thermal; first being the SEEK plug in for iPhone that is cool for some stuff close & home inspections; but having the phone screen on out hunting is less than ideal. Hope this helps!

I have a friend who has had thermal devices for a while, so I was somewhat familiar with what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised with this thermal viewer in that when I had previously priced a monocular a couple of years ago, they were still running about $800 or more. I purchased this one for use mainly to blood trail game. I have gotten into a couple of situations where I shoot at last light (or later in the case of hogs) and blood trailing in the dark is not easy. I brought it along this weekend for a hog hunt down at our club in middle Georgia (where we have a significant feral hog population) to test it out. Unfortunately I did not get a chance to track game as the weather and my equipment did not cooperate, but this viewer proved its worth as I tried to slip into my 'hog stand' in the dark. I decided to use the viewer as I approached my stand, and it was a good choice. I came around a bend and as you can see in the attached video, ran into a sounder of hogs. My gun-mounted hunting light failed, and I'm on the ground with a sounder of hogs about 50 yards from me, and I'm standing on the trail they probably used to get there. Had I not had this thermal monocular, I would've walked right in on these guys in the dark. Even money if they would've scattered or charged. As to the quality of the images, I can say that it all looks pretty fuzzy unless there is a solid heat signature, which then causes the image to really sharpen up. Assume the sensor renders on some kind of gradient, so the sharper the gradient the sharper the image. You can play with the contrast and brightness settings to mitigate some of that, as well as cutting down the light going into your eye which destroys any dark vision sensitivity you may have. It seemed to have a bit of a harder time working around brush and such, but still would pick out heat sources as long as there was a way for the heat to get through the brush. Having used more high-end thermal optics, I can tell you this one is a bit less sensitive, as some of the other ones I have used will even pick up residual heat like footprints and handprints. Still, for the price you can't beat this device for its intended use cases; finding warm-blooded things in the dark. As I sat in my stand this weekend I was able to pick out chipmunks and birds at 30-40 yards (although they didn't produce enough heat to go red using the "red hot" setting) as well as larger animals such as deer and hogs. All in all I am satisfied with the purchase. Its a plus to be able to snap JPEG images or take videos. The rangefinder is somewhat clunky in that you need to set high point and low point of the object in order to get a range, so its not going to work in a hunt situation with a target in crosshairs. It is great for establishing ranges on known objects, but I already carry a range-finder for that purpose, and I don't think this product is going to replace that one. In conclusion, you'll get what you pay for. This device functions as I would expect, and easily picks out warm-blooded creatures from the dark. It can also detect things that are warmer (or colder) than ambient, although you have to know what you are looking at or have a good mental image of the environment to make sense of what you are seeing. I would highly recommend this as an entry-level thermal optic device, and would recommend to anyone that who wanders the woods at night or in low light to have one of these in your gear.