{"id":230262,"date":"2026-03-02T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=230262"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:34:18","slug":"hunt365-armasight-commander-640-warden-640-texas-hog-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-armasight-commander-640-warden-640-texas-hog-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Armasight 640 Thermals on Texas Hogs: Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/span>Estimated reading time: <\/span>17<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We took Armasight\u2019s Commander 640 thermal weapon sight and Warden 640 thermal monocular into a West Texas night hunt where game cams love to lie. The thermals did not. Here\u2019s what impressed me, what annoyed me, and how the rig performed when hogs finally showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Game Cams Will Break Your Heart, Then Thermal Shows Up<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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One of the boars McCombie took on a recent Texas night hunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I started hating game cameras several years ago on hunts just like this one. You know, hunts where the cameras show all kinds of activity in the days before your hunt, and you are all psyched up, but then you sit for hours and sometimes days, and nada shows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which was turning out to be my hunt on my first night in Kent County, Texas, early December 2025. I was there to field test a pair of Armasight<\/a> thermals, the Commander 640 1.5-6×35 Thermal Weapon Sight and the Warden 640 2-8×35 Thermal Monocular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I settled into my elevated stand, nicknamed The Dink, an hour before dark to figure out the local landscape, including the likely travel routes to and around the feeder that sat 140 yards away. I was ready for the sounder of hogs that hit the feeder for the last three nights, 20-plus hogs in a group, plus various big lone boars appearing later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside The Dink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Maybe 15 minutes after dark dropped, my Warden monocular picked up three deer on the hillside above the feeder. A good sign, I thought, as I watched the deer move towards the feeder and then into the field below it. They milled around for half an hour, joined right at the end by another deer, the images sharp and focused in the thermal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I scanned and scanned with the Warden. I picked out warm rocks hundreds of yards away and thick brush glowing from the day\u2019s sun. Yet not another animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damn game cams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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