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Shows as expired for me. Anyone else have this problem?

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The sale ended yesterday.

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Arrrrrrrrghhhh.  I have a Photon 4.6XT and was just about to buy a Pulsar thermal for scanning.  Do I just get this scope instead?  Still won't solve my problem of having to hold the gun to my eyes to see.

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Arrrrrrrrghhhh.  I have a Photon 4.6XT and was just about to buy a Pulsar thermal for scanning.  Do I just get this scope instead?  Still won't solve my problem of having to hold the gun to my eyes to see.

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Here are some To Do's so you are ahead of the game when it arrives

1) If you are on Facebook go to this group and ask to be made a member  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATNXSightUsers/

(If you are not on FB consider joining just for this group, there are over 7,000 members, tons of hunting videos and people from all over the world. I never knew how much the English hate foxes till I joined)

2) You are going to want to buy 4 Kentli AA rechargeable batteries and a charger. There are two ways of getting them. Go on Amazon and buy the 4 pack set that comes with the USB based charger for $ 47 (yes, they are worth it - the Kentlis will run the scope for 8 hours as long as you have WiFi turned off) OR put up a post in the FB group mentioning you've got a ThOR-HD coming soon and can anybody tell you who the guy is who has the great deal on Kentli's (I don't know his name. I'm  on Amazon and bought mine from them) and he'll send you a Message via Facebook that shows up under All Messages. He sells the same thing for $ 47 and the folks who have bought from him swear by him.

3) Buy a GOOD quality 32 Gb SD-XC card. I use Samsung myself. The scope can handle 64Gb but they use a non-FAT and non-NTFS based method for those. The Samsung 32 Gb have been dead solid reliable for me and once you get used to being able to record video you'll wonder why others don't have it. The SD card also allows the import and export of profiles. You can have a total of 6 and it allows you to have a set up already in the scope for any of the rifles you plan on using with the scope. The profile stores the reticle type and color as well as the coordinates for the zeroed POI for each gun. Other than the entry level scope they come with either a Midwest Industries or LaRue QD mount which gives you a repeatable zero mount position when you switch between guns. The profile also allows you to set up and store all of the ballistic data required for the Shooting Solution which integrates the data generated by the scope with data you input to adjust for wind, angle, etc. There is a guy on the FB group who lives in South Africa and has taken game at 700 meters with his X-Sight Gen II.

4) As you have probably figured out by now, you are going to be mounting a computer system on top of your rifle. Don't worry about it. Every single one of us who is honest has are own "user error" story to tell as we learned that fact. Mine relate to my Gen I X-Sight 3 -12. The beauty of the FB group is there are a lot of folks on there at all times of the night and day. It's extremely handy to have so many people available as resources.  By the way, at the top of the group page are sections for events, videos, photos and files. The files section has documents covering the bulk of the questions newcomers have.

5) When you first power on the scope, leave the cap on and hit the circular Enter button. This will pop up a left/right scroll menu. FIRST thing to do is to use the knurled knob at the back of the scope to focus the diopter so you are seeing the menu lettering nice and sharp. Once you've down that, it will only need to change for someone else using the scope. With the menu still displayed, scroll <- button once to the Wrench and hit Enter again. You are now in System Settings. Hit the <- button which will put you on the far right side with Settings highlighted. Scroll down to Device Type and hit Enter, then scroll up until you get to your ThOR model and hit Enter again to save the selection. Down at the very bottom of that vertical menu is Firmware Version - yours should end in .676.en which is the latest release. Hit the ,- button and scroll to the left to Display. At the very top is Screen Brightness which is set to 5 which is the highest setting. When I am out at night, I turn this down to 1 or 2 so when I take the scope away from my eye, I haven't ruined my night vision. At the very bottom of the Display vertical menu is the Reticle Style. Scroll down to it, hit Enter and then use the menu to select the type of reticle and then color of reticle you want to use. Scroll to your selection hit Enter to select and then <- button to get back to the Display menu. Over almost all the way to the left is the Thermal selection. This vertical menu has a bunch of settings which let you tune the scopes performance under different environmental conditions. At the very bottom is Color Palettes where you have a good number of choices which do different things well. It will be easier to explain Thermal AFTER you have the scope.

People tend to forget, a thermal scope can be just as useful during daylight hours if you are hunting animals which blend well into the foliage/vegetation/tundra. You will have to tune the Thermal menu selections for the difference in the environment and conditions between day and night. I have had mine for a month and a half and my biggest take away is Thermal changes the way you look at everything.

Everything else - like whether to get an external power supply and all the other menu selections in the scope can wait till you get it.

We'll talk about the One Shot Zero once you have the scope. Heads up for that, you'll want a standard one inch grid sight in target of about 18" x 20", ice cubes, some cheap baggies and some sticky tape. Note: Ice cubes are reactive targets when viewed thru thermal.