Burris BTH 50 thermal

[swimster]

Any one out there have any input on the new Burris BTH 50 Thermal sight?

 

[5spd]

I'm looking at them for use on a backup rig, but will wait till they actually have been out and used by real hunters besides all the promo adds.
They are a rebranded Chinese thermal, so not going to jump till later for now

 

[markT]

I’m interested in hearing how these units do. I Ray USA seems like the best but very pricey.
Get what you pay for?

 

[JayHHI6818]

They are a rebranded Chinese thermal, so not going to jump till later for now

Man I hate to hear that!

 

[swimster]

I have a BTH 35 monocular coming Monday. A friend has a Pulsar Axion Key 30. I'll do a comparison when it gets here. I was hoping to get a Pulsar Trail 2 LRF XP 50 BUT ill see how the BTH 35 & Axion stack up. The Burris BTS 50 looks pretty good and 1/2 the price as a Pulsar.

 

[Seagull]

Do a bit of a search and find out about the factory that these Burris thermals are coming from . They do alot on stuff for armed services. The factory is called guide Sensmart I had a look thro 1 of there thermal scope attachment the other day. Well once I have the $$$ aside I will be getting 1 I reckon

 

[lb-ft]

Chinese thermal

Chinese space program

Chinese stealth technology

Anyone else getting a bit uncomfortable?

 

[JFW]

Have owned several thermals, i currently use pulsar trail 2 xp 50 LRF. VERY, VERY happy with this thermal. I have had atn's and armasight, the 640 units are pricey but worth it, would not have one with out lazer range finder, since you have no depth perception with thermal and one viewing. Watch this video i shot couple weeks ago, you can see the snow being blown away from coyotes feet as he approaches, i was impressed .

 

[swimster]

Nice video. I received the BTH 35. I got to test it out last night. No video yet but it was quite impressive compared to my Armasite Zeus 640 x 70mm. I could easily identify a couple rabbits hopping around by my brush pile at 160 yds with both.

 

[XTR]

@JFW , how were you ranging him?

 

[JFW]

The units have building laser rangefinders that you can either do a one shot range or set up to scan so it's constantly ranging

 

[JFW]

Built in lazer range finder

 

[swimster]

I received the BTS 50 to day. I put it on my R 15 carbine. I did not like where it mounted it was too low and too far forward. I had it all the way back on the rail and had to set the collapsible stock all the way forward and it was still uncomfortable to shoot. I had a rail exstion so I mounted it backwards. That fixed it. For 3000$ you would think that issue would have been addressed before release.
It Dose not have a lazer range finder.it has a stadia wire space type range estimator.
As far as the optics go it is very nice. I could easily see bunnies hoping around in the grass at 175 yds images are crisp on the optical 3 power. On 2x and 4 x pixel distortion is not bad at all. Zeroing was fairly easy. I shot some nice group at 100 yds. Using a hand warmer. There was one glitch. As I was finishing the zero process I loaded 3 to fire fairly fast. After the second shot the screen got dark not off just dark I thought I might have bumped the control knob or something. I shut the unit down and restarted it. Loaded 5 more shot at the same pace no problem. Hope it doesn't do that again or I'll be calling Burris. Or boxing it up.

 

[JFW]

If you take a piece of metal duct tape, the aluminum foil type, and put on your cardboard and tilt at slight angle to sky, you won't have heat transfer and allows for tighter target size to shoot at, or tape a piece of aluminum foil, this for day time sight in.

 

[5spd]

Swimmster, how's is it at 400-800 yards view wise?
Can you make anything out at distances.
I have a xp38, no issues picking up coyotes at past 800 yards, was wondering about that on those for a back up rig.
I've shot many at 300 to 400 yds with mine, how do you think that bth 50 would perform or even bother past 200 yds

 

[swimster]

I haven't had the opertunity to shoot it past 150. I will take it out to my range some time I have some steel out to 500 I'll see how it dose and get back with. My Armasite dose well out to 400 on the plates. I have them mounted on .233 AR platforms shooting 53 and 55g bullets is probably more of a range limiter than the scope especially the Armasite.

 

[swimster]

I got out today to shoot the BTS 50 At 2 3 4 hundred yards. Pretty warm and windy but shot any way. At 200 yds it was relatively easy to get center hits on a 12 inch steel plate. At 300 I belive identifying game is very doable. Also 400 seemed to have enough definition to ID a coyote. This would probably be getting close to the limit for target ID. I just need to get some more night field time in. It will probably work better at night.

 

[matthias]

Does it have a way to take pictures for comparison at different ranges?

 

[swimster]

It needs a DVR recorder attached. It comes with with a cord but i havent got that far yet.

 

[AP2020]

What DVR are you using.

Thanks!