07-28-2021, 12:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-09-2022, 04:09 PM by lazyengineer.)
It's much easier to import thermal into US than to export. From what I can tell, Pulsar's are made predominantly for the Euro market, with some final assembly in the US for the US market, but with Euro market components.
In the Euro market it's all bolt actions, and in some venues illegal to even take a follow-up shot [or so I'm told]. So a heavy high magnification unit that looks like a classic rifle scope for that slow and sure first shot matters a lot. In the US, being compact and fitting on a fast follow-up AR15 matters more.
I can see getting both styles as one gets more and more serious about night hunting. For the intro-purchase: keeping the price point down and having that wider field of view for AR15 usage seemed to me like the place to start. But I still wanted to do it with a keeper, not a starter&then-sell unit; which I think I achieved. Well, I think so at least.
In the Euro market it's all bolt actions, and in some venues illegal to even take a follow-up shot [or so I'm told]. So a heavy high magnification unit that looks like a classic rifle scope for that slow and sure first shot matters a lot. In the US, being compact and fitting on a fast follow-up AR15 matters more.
I can see getting both styles as one gets more and more serious about night hunting. For the intro-purchase: keeping the price point down and having that wider field of view for AR15 usage seemed to me like the place to start. But I still wanted to do it with a keeper, not a starter&then-sell unit; which I think I achieved. Well, I think so at least.