Night Vision N Vision Halo XRF vs IRay RH50R

[EXSOCAL]

Looking for some opinions based in real world experience with these two thermals. I currently own an N Vision Halo X35 and love it but want something with built in LRF. Being a happy N Vision owner, the natural progression would be the XRF but I’ve had the IRay RH50R recommended by several people. For the price, if it does what the XRF does and offers the same reliability and resolution, I’ll jump on it.

Anyone had the chance to compare or own both of these that can give an opinion?

Thanks in advance.

 

[MuleyTime]

I switched up this year and went from the XRF to the RH50R. I have no regrets. In fact the RH50R is my all time favorite so far (I have experience with many brands and models). The LRF is awesome and paired with the ballistics calculator makes it even more awesome. NVision needs to up their game, IMHO.

 

[EXSOCAL]

That’s what is making me lean towards the IRay stuff. I like supporting the red, white, and blue company but they lack in features when compared to the new Chinese stuff unfortunately. NVision hasn’t had any major product advancements in a long time.

How is the resolution and detection distance compared to the XRF?

 

[MuleyTime]

That’s what is making me lean towards the IRay stuff. I like supporting the red, white, and blue company but they lack in features when compared to the new Chinese stuff unfortunately. NVision hasn’t had any major product advancements in a long time.

How is the resolution and detection distance compared to the XRF?

They are both really good, but different in their own way. The IRAY is phenomenal and like I said, I have no regrets at all.

 

[Aftermath]

NVision recent purchase here. Halo XRF. I looked at most and through quite a few.

Made in the USA was my main determination.

Truly amazing to a guy that only very long ago viewed night vision.

I have this thermal scope but am wanting to get nightvision rigged up. From all of my research, I learned it is generally better to rig yourself thermal for scanning for coyotes and then a night vision scope on the rifle. to do that, I'd need to get rid of this Halo and that is probably not going to happen. I'm looking at setting up a helmet with duals...night vision and thermal.

Just a couple hours ago there were 2 yotes crossing the pasture at 285 yards. I missed 4 times on one and never shot at the other. Looking at bullet trajectory, I was shooting over the one I was shooting at. Not by much. dammitman!! I have not had time to get an actual zero let alone the other zooms available.

Federal's with Hornady 53 grain varmint. I will get this thing tuned in to this AR and then the bolt 223 Ackley, the bolt 243 Ackley and my primary 300 Win Mag.

 

[45cal4life]

Going through the same dilemma but also wanting night vision (helmet mounted to go with the Nox18). Iray came out with a RL42R - 384 sensor with a base mag of 4x and msrp is $2k less than the RH50R. Otherwise specs look the same. The few videos out there look good though