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As far as spotting and stalking the only thing I can say is be really careful about shooting something that you haven't seen move with thermal. Body language is extremely important when Iding with thermal. The side profile is extremely important. Imo the only thing you can scan with effectively is thermal. As I posted in some threads here I'm thinking about going gen 3 night vision next year for shooting and I think I'm just going to pull my xp50 trail off my rifle and scan with it to see how I like that combination. I hate to sell an XP 50 and lose money on it when I know it's one of the good ones that pretty much stays with the same p o i. For spotting and stalking I would be shooting with good night vision and definitely navigating and spotting with thermal and it would probably be a helion xp-38. I stalk within 20 yards of a coyote one time in a picked corn field we had one that we knocked down and got away and I thought that was him but I could see his head was still up. I couldn't ID him though because it just look like a lump in my XP 50 Trail. There were also deer in the field so I obviously did not shoot because I wasn't sure what it was. Well I took one more step and he got up and he ran away. If I would have had night vision I'm sure the story would have been different. There was no blood in his bed so it was just another coyote and it would have been our fifth of that stand.