So far I have not hunted with this unit but I have been using it daily around my land for a month. I can tell you that the picture is really good and that is what ultimately helped me to decide on this thermal, it came with 2 batteries that seem to last a very long time, you'll be hard pressed tom run one down in a night. It was nicely packaged and all the controls are straight forward. Everything you want with a thermal works very well on this unit.
However, 2 complaints I have is that the field of view is relatively tight, it seems unusable inside of 75', and that isn't huge but it's good to know if you are using it in brush or tight areas. And the big issue for me that appears none of the manufacturers want to discuss is latency/video delay. It's pretty obvious with this one, and what I am most upset about. No manufacturer addresses it so I must assume it's a thing on all of them. If someone has a comparable Halo and can confirm this, that would ease my mind. If you hold the unit still and then start moving you can see that it has to catch up which means it's always behind. I've carefully studied the videos on YT and it appears this one may be the most obvious, I'm on the edge of wanting to return it for this reason. I'm running out of time though. It is my first thermal and I was not aware that the video has to pause to "NUC" (non uniformity correction) every couple minutes, I was informed by infiray that "all thermals need to do this". It is annoying but I guess I can ...
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