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Yes, cowdog6, welcome to the 'fire and thanks for the info. I looked up the Pulsar 320 scope. Nice.

Two YouTube owners of the Leupold LTO report that 300 yards is max for detecting a deer sized animal, and detection erodes quickly for anything past 100 yards. The FLIR Scout is good to about 100 yards on a dog, 150 on a warm vehicle. Need to do more research on Pulsar products. A Pulsar Thermion scope claims detection to 2000 yards, for well over 3 grand.

I'm not ready to spend 3K on this and so had hopes for the Leupold.

Perhaps a better question for me to pose is: “How much do I need to spend to buy a thermal imager that consistently detects a deer sized animal at 800 yards? I'd settle for 600.