Night hunting (hogs) - anyone mess with the green lights; questions about thermals

Don’t waste your time with the green lights

If shooting at less than 75 yards, get the AGM rattler 25-256

Just bait the fields at 50 yards from your stand when you get there.

Buy once, cry once. And it’s a good price at $1,099.

I paid $1400 after taxes a year ago and that was a good price then.


You don’t want to deal with setting up lights, batteries etc. you want to be able to scan your plots

Don’t waste time or money on lights. I have green lights and hogs run away when flipped on. Might as well use regular spotlight.

Get a thermal and be done.

second thermal thread today. i suggest you go read my responses in the other thermal thread.

sure a 25mm 256 resolution thermal will kill a hog at 75-100 yds. It will look like shite doing it.

OP - we need a budget to get started. if all you have is $2k then we are limited on what to suggest.

blanket suggestion - get the most you can afford. once you kill a few, most guys want a better optic anyway. Do your best to get a 640 resolution if your going to be going out to 200 yds. That 25mm 256 scope will struggle when zooming in

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3k range

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For a quality brand like pulsar you will be limited to a 384 resolution scope. The thermion XQ50 will be in your range. Their budget talion xq35 will be a solid choice also. The XG Talion will get you a 640 12 micron scope for just over $3k

You can get a cheap scope and likely a 640 for $3k but you will get cheap results for the reasons stated in the other spread.