Jim from United States, TX Public Profile

I have been using night vision and thermals for over 8 years. I own a night vision scope and 2 other ATN thermal scopes and I have killed hundreds of pigs so I have some experience using these. I prefer using the thermal over the night vision because pigs, coyotes, and racoons can see the IR illuminator. Up close that has resulted in animals running away before I could set up on them. The IR illuminator sometimes is frustrating to use in the summer because you can get a lot of white-out from the foliage that is in front of you from the IR light source. With a thermal there is no required light source and that makes you invisible to the animals.

My friend and I have been killing pigs with a ATN Thor 4 1.5-5 384 thermal for about 3 years. We both are using AR10 style .308s with suppressors. We have routinely shot and killed pigs from 30 yards to 250 plus yards using the 1.5-5X19MM 384 thermal scope. One issue is at distances beyond 250 yards it is hard to positively identify what are pigs and what are cows. Additionally, when pigs bunch up at distances >200 yards it is hard to individually identify the pigs when using the smaller objective lense and low magnification 384 processor scope.

I purchased the Thor 4 640 4-40X75mm to end the guessing. This scope is exactly what I wanted. I can easily identify cows at 800 yards, I can see and identify deer at over 700 yards, and I can see and identify wild turkeys at over 600 yards (turkeys do look weird in a thermal). You