Somebody hard up for some cash has this for sale for $1,500, thought it was a pts-736 at first but it's an older zues. I have no experience with the older armasight stuff. Anybody have any idea what it would be worth, and we're they decent units ? How's the image compared to the new flir versions in the pts line ?
Night Vision Worth $1,500 ?
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That is a 640 unit. It will have a BETTER image than the FLIR PTS stuff. Also the Armasight units seem pretty durable. $1500 is a crazy good deal. It would be worth way more than that if there was still any customer service behind the product. Thats your primary risk, no one to fix it if necessary. Sucks that FLIR boned us all.
We have an Armasight 640 2-16x50, and I think it was about $4,000 new maybe 4 years ago. With a 75MM lens, the scope you are looking at was very likely more expensive than ours, probably around $4,500-$5,000 but thats just a guess. The lens is one of the most expensive parts.
The image on ours is very good. We've compared it to a Pulsar XG-50 that as a 12 micron 640 core like the Trijicons, and while of course the Pulsar is better, the Zeus hunts just as well, and I don't feel handicapped by it at all vs the Pulsar for coyotes. For coyote hunting, having a higher base magnification is your friend IMHO, so that 75MM Zeus would kick ass for calling coyotes if you ask me.
Honestly, I think you would have a damn tough time buying a better image quality for that price, period. My take would be...worth the risk!
We have an Armasight 640 2-16x50, and I think it was about $4,000 new maybe 4 years ago. With a 75MM lens, the scope you are looking at was very likely more expensive than ours, probably around $4,500-$5,000 but thats just a guess. The lens is one of the most expensive parts.
The image on ours is very good. We've compared it to a Pulsar XG-50 that as a 12 micron 640 core like the Trijicons, and while of course the Pulsar is better, the Zeus hunts just as well, and I don't feel handicapped by it at all vs the Pulsar for coyotes. For coyote hunting, having a higher base magnification is your friend IMHO, so that 75MM Zeus would kick ass for calling coyotes if you ask me.
Honestly, I think you would have a damn tough time buying a better image quality for that price, period. My take would be...worth the risk!
I will add, there is nothing about those units that seems frail at all. Except for the battery clip that goes inside the battery compartment. However, I see that the pelican case includes the external battery pack, which I just also bought. The scope can be powered either way, external pack or CR123's in the batt compartment. So you would have 2 ways to power it.
If it craps the bed, it will likely be electronic, not physical.
If it craps the bed, it will likely be electronic, not physical.
The external battery pack uses standard rechargeable lithium cells that can be bought anywhere on the web. I'm not a fan of the way the pin plug sticks up off the housing of the scope when plugged in, but I can live with it. Just need to be careful to protect that connection.
3x 75mm 640 Zeus Standard (vs Pro) was probably Armasight's best Thermal back in the day.
The FLIR merger is over and done, and Armasight was divested and is working on "rebirthing" itself. They aren't done with that process yet, but they are across the starting line of that process.
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The FLIR merger is over and done, and Armasight was divested and is working on "rebirthing" itself. They aren't done with that process yet, but they are across the starting line of that process.
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If I knew someone in Aus selling one of them at that price I'd jump on it even though I just bought a Pulsar. That lenses and mag range is excellent.
Haven't heard anything from the seller in a couple days so I figured it had sailed. Got a text today with an offer for 1k. So I bought it lol. It's no halo lr but for a thousand bucks it does just fine. Now I've got to decide what gun it's going on.
Been almost a year so if he doesn’t have it by now he’s F’ed
Most folks don't like to talk about those type things that occur. It's kind of embarrassing.
No scam. Although it did crap out about a month later. Turn it on and the screen would flash red for a split second and you could hear a sound like a shutter in a camera but no image.
Turns out armasight is still in the business of repairs just not manufacturing. Shot them an email supplied by another member here and got an rma from them. Wrapped it up and fired it off and a couple weeks later I had my thermal back.
Got it back, powered it up and all was well. Then I had a new problem, the whole objective end of the scope was loose. When I tried to focus it the whole objective lens would rotate. So I fired off another email, got another rma completely covered by armasight and about a week later all was well and the scope went on a heavy ar15 for night time varmint work.
The deer are starting to drop babies around my part of the country and I've been hearing coyotes lately. We've found two fawn carcasses around my property so hopefully I'll put it to good use in the near future. But I'm stuck on nights for another couple weeks.
Turns out armasight is still in the business of repairs just not manufacturing. Shot them an email supplied by another member here and got an rma from them. Wrapped it up and fired it off and a couple weeks later I had my thermal back.
Got it back, powered it up and all was well. Then I had a new problem, the whole objective end of the scope was loose. When I tried to focus it the whole objective lens would rotate. So I fired off another email, got another rma completely covered by armasight and about a week later all was well and the scope went on a heavy ar15 for night time varmint work.
The deer are starting to drop babies around my part of the country and I've been hearing coyotes lately. We've found two fawn carcasses around my property so hopefully I'll put it to good use in the near future. But I'm stuck on nights for another couple weeks.
All that and I failed to mention what the repair cost. Total bill from armasight was $584. So I'm into the whole thing for $1,584.
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