Thermal scopes???

[ronsatspokane]

I have bought and sold many thermal scopes and monoculars over the past 5 years, earlier this week I received a DNT hydra 650r to play with. I ordered it a couple weeks ago and thought I would try it out and see how it actually is and then maybe pass it along, that way I can speak from experience.

For under 3k easily and they do have discounts for multiple professions. So for about 2700$ I got this shipped. It is a 640 core sensor with good specs all around. Has lrf and ballistics, it has a small footprint, 18650 batteries, and looks dam good.

Last night I took it to the range and sighted in quickly at 50 then 100 for zero. I and another veteran buddy took turns shooting shots 1 each at 200, then 300 and then the furthest we could at the range 316 yards all from tripod/ standing. The ballistics were perfect, the image was great, and the menue is easy enough to navigate as ling as you know the buttons.
After having n-vision halo lr(640), iray bolt v2 (640), agm micro(384), rix l6 (640) and seen many others as well as many monoculars 384 and 640's, I would say for 2700$ this thing is a hell of optic with all the bells and whistles and that price. Not to say i wouldn't want to try some other 640 flavors higher in price and even play with the 1024's, 1240's, but for now this one can do some work. Will be going out Saturday evening and night.

What do you think of DNT products? I just ordered a DNT Zulus HD V2 5-20 with LRF to play with around the property. It arrives Monday morning (posting on Saturday). I'm scanning with a RIX Titan T6 (which is a stunning scanner) and I figured many of the shots around here would be limited to 250 or 350 yards so night vision would probably suffice.

That said, I do have my eye on a RIX Storm S6R based on my experience with the T6. Another option might be the DNT TNC635R which covers it all. Have you tried it? All this is up in the air since my neighbor just ordered the RIX Leap L12R. Not sure I even want to look through it because it could cost me a ton of money.

As someone above mentioned, if money is no object the RIX DBH D12 is currently the king of the hill in Thermal. My neighbor nearly bought that but choked on the additional 1600 bucks.