Any FLIR scouts looking for a new home?

[PEterW]

The price of thermal doesn't seem to be dropping but there are lots of new developments so I reckon a scout now will give me access to the world of heat. Few years time the technology should be better and cheaper:... And I will have had something to play with in the meantime.
So has anyone got a flir scout unit they are looking to sell?

Cheers

PEter

[rightpodge]

Be careful what you wish for i had a flir scout ps14. I found it useless for my hunting needs. Best advise i could give is try before you buy in different temperatures.

[Radagast]

Another vote against the PS24. Its basically useless unless temps are near zero. At 100 yards a kangaroo looked like a man - or Caspar the friendly ghost.

[PEterW]

All thermal will suffer if there is not much temperature difference unless you can manually set te temperature range of the colour scale, which you can't. My main use will be closer range in forest wildlife spotting, backed by conventional NV. A pulsar or guide would be better, but the technology is developing rapidly and I don't want to drop too much on this at the moment. Of course if Nyone wants to sell a hd38 of guide 518 for the same price....!!ngiven people don't like the scouts it seems hard to find anyone wanting to sell one!
I'd hoped that flir would release some cool new spotters at the shot show but sadly all we get is an iphone device and a (never to be seen in the UK) gun sight unit...

Thanks

Peter

[Radagast]

I found that even in pre-dawn it was unable to differentiate much of anything except trees from ground. That being said, if you want to get one, get one, it is after all your money and you may have better luck than I did with my mates. I was using it in open paddocks with hard dry ground, which may have made a difference.
Late at night it did give wonderfully spooky definition to trees, especially larger ones which were a greater heat sink. It just didn't show up the bunnies very well.
If you are after deer sized game at sub 100 meters then it may prove usable.

[rightpodge]

Hi i tried mine in the day light looking at pigeons on grass 20ish meters away on a warm days and could only see them if they moved. At night after rabbits and foxes but due to retained heat in ground and shrubbery could still only see movement. At no time was i able to identify any target. At night we had a pvs-14 there was no comparison. I felt lucky, i bid at the jj vickers liquidation sale on the ex demo ps28 but was given the ps24 in the ps28 box so they took it back with a full refund. Let me tell ya that was a lucky escape it was worthless to me and i couldn't have sold it on to a fellow hunter.