There are pieces of hunting equipment I like, and then there are pieces of equipment that completely change the way I hunt. A vehicle-mounted thermal pan-tilt-zoom camera falls into the second category. I have said this many times: other than a thermal weapon sight, I would give up my drones, helmet-mounted thermals, handheld monoculars, and […]
The RIX LPR L6R is not one of those product updates where a manufacturer changes the name, moves a button, and calls it an entirely new thermal scope. This is a real redesign. I had just returned from a couple of days of hunting during which we killed more than 70 hogs, and the LPR […]
When hunters compare a 640 thermal scope with a 1280 thermal scope, the first thing everyone talks about is resolution. That makes sense. A 1280×1024 thermal sensor has twice as many pixels from side to side and twice as many pixels from top to bottom as a 640×512 sensor. That means a 1280 sensor contains […]
There are a lot of thermal scopes with impressive specifications. There are now more 1280-resolution thermals than ever before, and every manufacturer wants to tell you that its newest flagship has the best image, the greatest detection range, or the most advanced processing. I do not rank thermal scopes from specification sheets alone. For my […]
The original RIX Storm S6R became one of the best-selling thermal scopes at Huey Outdoors for good reason. It delivered a 640-resolution thermal image, an integrated laser rangefinder, ballistic calculations, and a compact one-pound design at a price that made it accessible to a lot of serious hog and predator hunters. Now RIX has replaced […]
