Originally Posted By: frerHow many rounds do you estimate you have on your personal Hogster? Have you had any issues or trouble with it? Are you using it on an AR? .223? Thanks! I am not sure on a round count. I shot 20 coyotes with it right at the end of our night season. Between sighting in, coyotes, rabbits and shooting for fun, maybe 100. I used it in temps ranging from 90 last summer to -15 during coyote hunting.
My main coyote hunting gun that the Hogster was on is a suppressed 22-250 AR-10. However, I slapped it on my .17 HMR for some backyard rabbit fun as well.
The part that is so impressive besides the image is the fact that I used it on multiple guns, and then most nights my coyote hunting partner used it as his scanner. We probably used it as a scanner for close to 100 hours last year. In the past 3 years, I have ran Trijicon, Flir, Pulsar, ATN, PRG, Sightmark, and Bering Optics. This is the only digital or thermal scope that I had zero problems with. It never froze up, glitched, or did anything odd the entire time. It was absolutely rock solid.
The Hogster has been a very popular item at Night Goggles. Users seems absolutely delighted with the Hogster so this adds to my confidence. When you buy a thermal from Night Goggles, you have a 7 day window that if you don't like it or want to exchange, you can do so. Buy with confidence.
If you are looking for a thermal that is versatile, cost-effective, with a great warranty, the Bering Optics Hogster is a great answer as long as you don't need high magnification. Once you move the Hogster-R off base mag (1.4x on the 25mm and 2x on the 35mm), the image deteriorates very quickly.