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It definitely isn't my intention to say this is a replacement or better than thermal. (My brother took a raccoon at 135 this past weekend with the pulsar thermion. )
But i do think it's a solid gateway into night hunting if your hunting more open areas / stand hunting.
It's definitely dependent on the IR light.
Splash back is annoying farther out even than i thought it would be just part of it learning to mitigate this in your hunting area is part of it.
Adjusting your ir light or using two different ones depending on the area what i'm going to test next
I still think for the money it's extremely usable.
The only downside i see to the sightmark wraith package is the ir light should have a much larger difference in the ir light modes...... i personally can't tell any difference at all between high med or low...
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Digital night vision is way better than trying to use a white, red or green light. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it is a cheaper way to get into night hunting.
I started out hog hunting with the original ATN X-Sight digital night vision. I think that was 9 or 10 years ago. I still have the original two scopes we bought, they come along as backup/loaner guns. They work really well when paired with a thermal hand held monocular or another hunter with a thermal.
Our last hog hunt back in March my Nephew brought along three buddies from work that had never hog hunted before. We had a total of 4 thermal scopes and 4 digital night vision scopes for six of us. So a couple of people were using digital night vision every night. We killed hogs every night.
If you are on a budget and saving money to hog hunt, I'd say get digital night vision first, then a suppressor, then get a thermal handheld, and finally save up for a thermal rifle scope.