Airgun Shooter

FLEXIBLE THERMAL

More airgun shooters are switching to thermal optics for after-dark pest control. The reason for this is the fact that it is impossible to fail to notice the glow of a quarry animal’s heat signature when viewed through these devices. And because thermal imagers don’t use a light source there is no beam to betray your presence – you can carry out your observations and shooting with total stealth from the cover of complete darkness.

Not everyone is making the change, and one of the main reasons for that is cost.

Decent thermal technology doesn’t usually come cheap and it isn’t easy to justify spending two or three months’ wages on a new optic for a bit of pest control.

HIKMICRO could just offer a solution to that problem; its TE19C Thunder unit isn’t exactly cheap, but with

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