SCJ429 wrote:I looked through one and at night you can make out the animal at 100 metres but the image quality was poor. During the day I could not see bullet holes at 100 metres. I was not sure if that was as good as it gets or did the scope need adjusting.
Yep, I hav'nt long had mine, and found that the more you play with it, and adjust the fine tuning of it the better.
The manufacturers are smack on target about the distance of picking up animals etc,,,, but the distance of clarifying exactly WHAT your looking at is much less than the claimed "pick up thermal signal".
At maximum range, at least you know that there is either nothing or "something" out there.
Then it's a matter of getting close enough to positive ID
The background,,,, ie: trees, or rocks, etc that have a heat signature can be dealt with via the three different modes.
I do not fear death itself... Only its inopportune timing!
I've come to realize that,,,,, the two most loving, loyal, and trustworthy females in my entire life were both canines.