Not very good out of the box - Steiner Close Quarter Red Dot Thermal Sight

First thing I want to say is that I can’t be 100% sure this was new, but it looked good so I accepted without it being fully wrapped. From that point on everything got progressively worse. First at 25 yards I could not get it to hit the paper. I’d adjust the reticle up then down, never got two shots within 6 inches of each other. I’m not crowing here but I have three thermal trijicon scopes and they are wonderful for the hog hunting we do in Florida. So I decided I would put the Steiner CQT on a Wilson Combat 300 hammer, maybe the most accurate gun I own. Nothing I could do to get any consistency at all. I called Steiner, they had me send it back kept it for 3 1/2 weeks and sent it back. Ten times worse. Now I could net get Thermal to fire up most of the time and when it did it stayed on about three seconds and went off. Could not get the reticle anywhere near target and finally when I finally did get it working and tried to turn it off, the red dot stayed on, burning up batteries. Terrible experience but I still love the concept so I sent it back for a replacement, believing that with Steiners reputation this had to be a defective unit. I am going to give it one more try and will follow up with another review if my results are better, but for now purchase with caution