{"id":143227,"date":"2021-06-07T14:35:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=143227"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:45:46","slug":"hunt365-review-burris-thermal-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-review-burris-thermal-imaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Burris Thermal Imagers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In today\u2019s market, new technology either makes things expensive or it makes things less expensive. Let me elaborate, technology can either be much improved and make new things expensive or it can take relatively new things and improve the manufacturing processes and simplify things and make it cheaper. That is what has happened to the Thermal Imaging market, the new extreme high-tech units are bringing 10k to 20k dollars on the retail consumer market. On the other end, manufacturers are offering lower-priced units that allow many of us to enjoy the benefits of thermal imaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burris has entered this arena. Burris has been in the optics game a very long time and they bring an excellent reputation to a field of manufacturers that many may have not heard of before. They are bringing 3 basic units out, a handheld unit, a clip-on unit, and a stand-alone rifle scope. These optics will provide much more affordable thermal imaging to the masses, with retail pricing being 1999.00 – 2199.00 for the handheld, 2749.00 – 2999.00 for the rifle scope, and 2999.00 – 3199.00 for the not reviewed clip on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thermal imaging is not what we see on TV, it won\u2019t tell you how many people are in a room through a wall. It cannot physically give you a heat signature through anything that reflects or gives off heat of its own. It will not see through glass and tell you what\u2019s on the other side. If you think about it logically you begin to understand there is nothing mystical and magical about it.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The video output port is visible to the left of the Burris logo. Rifle scope will retail between 2749.00 and 2999.00.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As you scan across whatever you\u2019re looking at, it adjusts the image that it sends to your eye.\u00a0This adjusting is what is known as a refresh rate, it is the rate at which the unit refreshes the image seen by your eye.\u00a0Other than focus, and pixelation this is probably the most important feature that the end-user will have an opinion on. If the refresh rate is slow it makes for a very tedious and frustrating usage of the unit. The refresh rate on both the handheld unit and the rifle scope<\/a> is the same at 50hz. this rate is fast and should provide excellent performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been using a high-end unit for the last 5 years for destructive animal abatement and have gotten used to the benefits thermal brings. The Burris units are aimed directly at the users that want to get into thermal but not sink 10+ thousand into an optic. They also take advantage of developments in technology that have allowed things to be simplified and made less expensive. At the same time, they are offering excellent features that are important to us in the civilian market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The diopter control which helps considerably with focus can be seen on the far right just above the charging plug in. Handheld will retail between 1999.00 and 2199.00.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll be comparing the handheld scanning unit and the stand-alone rifle scope, the clip-on version was not sent to me.   The riflescope is very comparable in both size, nominally 9.75×3.75 inches, and features to the handheld, nominally 8.5\u201dx3\u201d inches, and makes the handheld probably seem redundant.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the control buttons for the handheld are on top, with the power on light being at the extreme right, it will illuminate when on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

However, if you have absolutely no need for a weapon’s sight, as in a first responder team that needs thermal imaging for use in search and rescue. Then this unit is lighter and easier to hold in the hand for long periods of time. It also has the capability of viewing and recording through your phone with the proper connector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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