Ken from United States, GA Public Profile

The Apex XD50A is an excellent thermal scope that focuses on quality instead of features. Most of my complaints are about the lack of features, but the performance is what I was looking for. The only feature that I consider a major negative is that the external battery pack is a custom connection. And the battery packs are currently out of stock. And they are relatively expensive. But the next gen battery packs are supposed to be coming out soon. I may buy a cheaper pack and move the connector over to a cheap quality LiPo pack since I have the tools and skills to do that. However, I've used the scope frequently for the past couple of weeks and I'm just now changing the internal batteries.

On a side note - to get PIP you have to turn it on in the menu and then use the top middle push button to activate it. It doesn't come on automatically from the menu/knob button on the side. It took me a while to figure that one out.

As typical with Insurance, I'm glad to have it but hope I don't need it. I'm not entirely sure why I'm reviewing insurance before I have had a chance to use it. So it's more a personal preference at this point.