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Posted: 12/8/2016 7:37:37 PM EDT
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It all depends what your clip-on is rated for, some are only good up to about 4x while others can go much higher.
Someone here some years ago said you are basically looking at a TV screen, so your just zooming in on a TV screen. Vic has also said that glass quality is not as much of a factor with a thermal clip-on as it is with a NV clip-on, and I agree with that based on my experience. With my FLIRT T-50 I use a Vortex 1-4 and it works fine. I think SkyPup has always been a fan of the Trijicon ACOG in 4x. |
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Posted: 12/8/2016 7:54:32 PM EDT
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^^^you really are just zooming in on a screen with an external source so take that for what it's worth.
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Posted: 12/16/2016 3:12:02 PM EDT
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I've had several different thermal clip-ons and they all seemed to work better with a low-power variable scope like a VCOG or a Vortex Razor 1-6X than they did with my 4X ACOG. With a clip-on, the image will generally look the best/sharpest when the day scope magnification is just enough so that the image fills the entire field of view. Once you get past that point you are basically just zooming in on the center of the display screen, similar to using digital zoom on a dedicated scope. With that in mind, I wouldn't want to be stuck at a fixed magnification that is near the upper end of the clip-on scope's useable range.
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Posted: 12/16/2016 5:43:51 PM EDT
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Not a thermal but IR on my end. I run an Armasight CO-X HD Gen 2+ 25mm in front of a couple of different scopes. It is rated for a max of 6 - 7X. It works fine with a 1 - 6 Primary Arms scope and a 2-10 Vortex. On the Vortex as long as I don't run the magnification past 7X it works great. I can still use it at 10x but it is grainy.
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