Super underrated thermal - SIG SAUER ECHO1 Thermal Reflex Sight, 1-2X

My buddies have other brand products that I've used, both 384 and 640 units and I'm quite familiar with their qualities and quirks as a comparison. I purchased this immediately after Christmas and I've had this in the field 3-4 times now and it's awesome! Rock solid mount, never freezes (knock on wood) and the battery life with rechargeable 16340 batteries has been STELLAR. It takes a while to get used to the auto-nuc feature, but I like it. Recently I've been able to positively ID hogs at 1/2 mile, which beats my friend's 384 unit all over the place. All functions are intuitive and easy to use. Black hot gives me the best resolution and I keep it on the lowest brightness setting and it doesn't light up my face too badly at night. Daytime, highest brightness setting and no sunglasses is necessary to see the screen. Zeroing is easy, tracking is accurate, and seeing the adjustment units on the screen is awesome so I can switch between supersonic and subsonic 300blk, in my case, and just move the cross hair to the previous location and you're good to go. I've never used the zoom function in the field, the native magnification is definitely not 1x though, more like 1.6x I'd guess. This is plenty because my engagements are always inside of 100 yards, usually 50 yards. I'd buy again without any hesitation, so far my favorite thermal I've used. This is a no-nonsense thermal that works and works well.