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Winchester Supreme Optics recently announced the launch of a new line of thermal hunting sights to add to its already established line of rifle scopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and rangefinders.
The new line includes three models: the THSX 640, THSX 384, and THSD 384, each offering advanced thermal imaging with high-performance VOx sensors. Capable of detecting heat signatures through smoke, fog and total darkness, these optics provide hunters with a clear advantage when visibility is compromised.
Each model is designed for durability and functionality with lightweight construction, IP67 waterproof rating and recoil resistance rated for up to .300 Win. Mag. The 12-micrometer pixel sensor ensures crisp imagery on an SXGA 1280×1024 display with multiple color palettes, reticle options and onboard recording capabilities at a smooth 50Hz frame refresh rate.
Hunters can choose between the premium THSX 640 with a 640×512 sensor and 1,865-meter detection range for $2,499, the THSX 384 with a 384×288 sensor, a 1,150-meter range and weighing in at 680 grams for $1,649 or the THSD 384 rifle scope offering similar specs at $1,899 and weighing 800 grams. All models are backed by Winchester’s 5-year limited warranty, ensuring long-term performance in the harshest environments.
For more information, visit winchesteroptics.com.
For some of these specs I remember the lower price being 4k and not all that long ago, useful thermal is slowly creeping down into why not territory for pricing.
SAFEupstateFML,
I just checked on the price of the 384 pixel THSX Supreme Thermal Hunting Sight at the linked distributor and they are listing it at $1649.
Note that a competitor’s comparable (depending on the exact feature set of both) Thermal Hunting Sight with the same resolution was selling for $2400 just two years ago. And I paid around $1500 for a 384 pixel thermal imaging monocular (not a scope/sight) a year-and-a-half ago. (A monocular is simpler than a scope/sight so that reduces its price.)
Those prices are becoming very compelling once you understand the huge advantage that thermal imaging provides in most circumstances.
I remember the beat to shit thermal scope we had on deployment that was a decade old over a decade ago. Probably right around that level of capability bigger than an 80’s cell phone, used 8 AA batteries (quickly like maybe 7 hours) and if we lost it we were on the hook $10k. Still made single shot mode with the 50 quite viable at night well out to 900m
I have mentioned on this website before that I purchased a thermal imaging monocular about 18 months ago and absolutely love it. I highly recommend that everyone purchase the highest resolution thermal imager that they can afford.
Speaking of resolution:
I do not recommend that anyone purchase the 128 (or thereabouts) pixel devices, resolution is just too low.
The next step up in resolution–256 pixel devices–are very useful at modest ranges, certainly within 100 yards and potentially out to 200 yards.
Next increase in resolution is 384 pixel devices which are very nice, enabling you to distinguish a rabbit from a possum at 50 yards and a deer from a coyote at probably 300 yards or more.
Of course 640 pixel devices are fantastic and superior for practically all situations, if you can afford it.
A quick comment on thermal imager applications. Thermal imaging scopes/sights are:
— useful for targeting game animals, both day and night.
— useful for targeting human attackers, both day and night.
— indispensable for locating prowlers and home invaders in the dark.
Additional applications:
— Identifying hot and cold spots in your home, car, etc.
— Identifying an abnormally hot device or location on a device
— Checking for unwanted heat production in damp rags or compost
— Locating pest animals in basements, attics, crawl spaces, etc.
— Locating a child that wandered away in the dark
— Locating a pet that wandered away in the dark
— Locating a downed game animal
I will end with a specific example of alternative uses. I have a machine with a 28 horsepower gasoline engine. Mice (deer mice specifically) started making a nest in a small open space that was extremely difficult to access. I laid out mouse traps and captured three mice by the time that I checked the traps 12 hours later. However I was not sure if I had captured all of the mice. One look at the engine cover with my thermal imager revealed a low level of heat still present. So I reset the mouse traps. I checked the traps the next day and sure enough I had captured one more mouse. At that point my thermal imager did not indicate any residual heat from the relevant location on the engine and I knew that I had successfully eradicated all of the offending mice.
Bottom line: if you can even begin to justify the expense of a thermal imager, buy one.
You HAVE TO exterminate mice in machinery, the cheap Chinese electrical wire insulation smells delicious to them, and they will gnaw on it all day and night, ruining the equipment.
Farmers with their 500-thousand-plus dollar tractors and combines are constantly fighting this…
Peppermint oil helps to an extent but so do various poison traps.
SAFEupstateFML,
In my particular case with the machine that I mentioned, I cannot take any chances on mice having a nest in my machine and dying in there–it is almost guaranteed to start an engine fire if I operate it. For that reason I use traps to try and keep them out all together.
If I were really on the ball, I would try to find a way to plug all the holes that the mice use to access that confined space next to the engine. That may have to wait for a while.
Gotcha in that case steel wool (unless it can contact an active current) and some level of grate/screen with peppermint oil applied monthly. Not perfect but combines some level of barrier with noxious deterrent. Traps are always a good supplement.
Steel wool is definitely the order of the day.
Lol, I dropped off one of our hired hands at a grain truck that had been sitting awhile.
He fired her up and started down the road and a rat bailed from the under carriage.
If that wasn’t enough the rat started chasing the truck down the road.
When he pulled over at the next field I went up to the door and said ” Bill, I think there is a rat’s nest in your truck.”
We leave the hoods of our vehicles up about 4 inches( usually propped up with a beer can, cause yah know) that prevents the rodents from building in the engine compartment.
Daylight doesn’t seem a safe place for a nest I suppose?
Chicom/PLA?
neiowa,
I would be utterly shocked if any U.S. based company manufactured any thermal imaging device in the U.S.
Being able to purchase a thermscope that can detect heat signatures 1,800 meters away is amazing.
Xdduly elected official,
When thermal imaging optics manufacturers specify their ability to detect heat signatures at some distance away (typically on the order of 1,000 to 2,000 meters), my guess is that manufacturers are referring to the maximum possible distance at which you could distinguish human-sized objects from landscape/terrain features.
I mention the above because my thermal imaging monocular (which I purchased 18 months ago) shows thermal signatures several miles away: it shows commercial jet airliners at 35,000 feet altitude against the cold background of the sky.
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good post