gwtx from United States, TX Public Profile

First off, my primary use for the device is hunting varmints/pest/predators at night.
I don't hunt "game" animals at all. I live in a rural setting with a lot of the aforementioned critters. Numerous ones dig holes in the property, others, such as feral hogs have "renovated" every square foot of 200 acres in the time I have lived here. Coyotes, and an occasional wolf or big cat have at one time or another wiped out our "barn cat" population. So, I hunt them when they come too close to our homestead. If they stay out away from us, I leave them alone.
Now the review. Thermal imaging devices are really amazing. Like everything else, they have limitations. When atmospheric conditions are good, the image is good. Increasing humidity has a drastic effect on the range, and clarity of the image. In good conditions, I have learned to distinguish between most of the night critters.
The scout II is advertised to "work" in light fog and haze. Well, it does "work", but even high humidity makes it hard to identify critters positively at 100yds. Since I don't have a thermal riflescope, I can't see to shoot in those conditions anyway, so it's not a "deal breaker". We had a run of armadillos attacking the yard recently, and one night I "dispatched" 5 in a couple of hours. I would likely not have been able to spot them with my "red LED HOG light" rig. It's a keeper. In good conditions, I can identify the animals I am familiar with out to 200 yds. Unfortunately, we have a lot of high humidi

Clear, sharp image edge to edge, thru all mag powers. Tracks well. Parallax adustment is very critical, and not accurate to scale, at least not according to my eyesight. Found it a bit difficult to eliminate parallax, but it can be done by "fiddling" with it for a minute. So far, only shooting target at 100yds. Mounted on a 22-250, so recoil is not a problem for it. Overall, very good quality for the price. I also have one in 3-9x40 on an AR15 that is fine.