Those of you using Rico RH50R LRF

[IndexFinger]

Rico RH50R LRF , 1st time behind one, and singing out some praise for this thing . Buddy picked new model up couple weeks back, and i was checking out tonight. I got to say it definitely a top dog for a 640 therm. rifle mount unit.
Not running the rubber boot eye-guard on the Ocular lens, So first thing that jumps out at you is the BIG Ocular lens, and the forgiving eye positioning for the large view screen . Nice Big finger control buttons are right up there on top, and usable for gloves. Easy to grab focus knob up front, and a easy grab, smooth turning magnification lever up front.

Was just pissing down cold rain. 38 deg. F outside, so was not out in the field for a hunt. Was just out on the back covered deck using it . It been Cold raining for days so all outside was super high humidity, wet/cold surfaced washed similar ambient Temp. So it was some dirty conditions for checking out the units image. Still the Rico RH50R was easy seeing couple small deer out 400 yrd. fairly clear with one bedded down, and viewing farther way out downrange was still good usable scanning image. Was really surprised it's usable hunt image even with pushing it in this crap weather conditions.
To much water in the air to even think about using the LRF. So did not check it out . Not wild about thew proprietary battery,, but the magnetic connect for hookup on a remote battery power supply was pretty sweet.
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[wolverines]

I was out with mine a couple weeks ago in a whiteout blizzard. I was scanning with my Phenom 640 and the image was not good. I had a tree in the middle of the field that occasionally I would almost completely lose sight of. I played around with some settings but could never get a really good image. Every time I would look through the Rico, I could see the tree and everything else across the field just fine. The image was definitely degraded, but I could still make out the limbs of the trees. Definitely way better than the image of the Phenom. The Rico RH50R has handled high humidity/poor thermal conditions better than anything else I've personally used. I actually like the battery system. It comes with 2. I don't do tournaments and/or hunt from dark to dark so I have yet had to go to my second battery in a night. When I was running a Yoter with a battery pack, I was having issues with the scope turning off on the shot (with a magnetic connection and wasn't using the internal CR123s like I should have been). I like not having to worry about that and keeping the bulk and weight down not having to mount a battery pack to the rifle (not to mention not having a power cord to worry about).