The Late Night Vision Show

The Pulsar Thermion thermal scope line has been some of the biggest news to hit the thermal industry in over 2 years. While all the Thermions were highly anticipated, the one that has drawn the vast majority of the attention has been the Thermion XP50. While the XP50 is the most expensive of all the Pulsar thermal scopes, it’s also offers the best image quality at its 640x480 resolution and 2x bas...

This week on Episode 69 of The Late Night Vision Show podcast, Jason and Hans offer their input on a subject that generates many questions on a weekly and even daily basis…..”What about buying used thermal or night vision?” Buying used is a very attractive idea considering the new costs of thermal and NV optics and Jason nor Hans can blame anyone for considering the idea. Many believe that since J...

Episode 68 of "The Late Night Vision Show" Podcast, Jason (Outdoor Legacy Gear) and Hans (HansETX) were lucky enough to have a second interview with Byron South of Convergent Hunting Solutions.  In our second interview, Byron shares his advanced predator hunting tactics and goes in depth to help all of us become better predator hunters!  Please subscribe... New episodes go live every Thursday morn...

On this week’s podcast, Hans and Jason do a head to head comparison of the two most popular thermal handheld monoculars currently (2019) on the market; the “budget friendly” Pulsar Axion and the very popular Pulsar Helion. The Axions are significantly less expensive than the Helions and many people want to the benefits of spending more to buy a Helion and if it’s really worth it. There is often co...

On Episode 66 of The Late Night Vision Show we are honored to have Mr. Byron South, co-owner and CEO of Convergent Hunting Solutions, as our guest. Convergent is the maker of the extremely popular Bullet HP and Sidewinder electronic predator and hog callers.  Byron is one of the premiere predator callers in the hunting world and he has a lifetime of successful hunting and calling experience u...

On Episode 65 Hans and Jason introduce the one piece QD mount they’ve chosen to use on the Pulsar Thermion thermal rifle scopes. After much research and debate, the official mount of choice is going to be the American Defense Mfg. AD Recon QD mount. This extremely high quality mount is 100% designed and made in the USA and American Defense has shown themselves to be very excited to have their moun...

On this week’s edition of The Late Night Vision Show Jason and Has discuss some updates to the not-yet-released Pulsar Thermion XM30 and the latest news for July 2019 on the popular Sightmark Wraith HD.  On the second segment of the show the guys talk about a recent article in a popular Texas hunting magazine that discusses the limited availability of affordable hog hunting in Texas. The auth...

“Should I buy a 640x480 scope? Is high resolution really worth it?” This is one of the most common questions Hans and Jason hear when talking to customers about thermal optics. When asked, many night hunters and thermal dealers will give an automatic “Yes!” reply. However, others who often haven’t had a lot of experience using many different scopes, might give a quick “No, it’s not worth it!” repl...

We’re back this week with a full review of one of the highest quality thermal rifle scopes that a hog or coyote hunter in the US can buy. If you haven’t already guessed it, we will be talking about the N-Vision Halo LR. N-Vision rocked the thermal world in 2019 with the release of the Halo and Halo LR thermal rifle scopes and they set the biggest players in this industry back on their heels by jum...

Since it’s announce at the SHOT Show in January, Hans and Jason have been dying to get their hands on the new Pulsar Thermion XP50 thermal riflescope. Thankfully that days has come and the wait was well worth it. On this episode they give their first impressions of the scope and their thoughts on how it compares to the Trail XP50. Listen in as they give a sneak peek at the newest high resolution 6...

On Episode 60 of The Late Night Vision Show, Jason and Hans compare two thermal scopes that couldn't be more perfectly paired.....the brand new Pulsar Thermion XM38 and the very popular FLIR ThermoSight Pro PTS536. Both scopes are 4x base magnification, in a similar price range, both have internal video recording and both are made by two of the most respected thermal manufacturers in the world. Ha...

This week Hans and Jason give a full review of the Pulsar Thermion XM38 thermal rifle scope. They’ve both been in the field with this scope for several weeks and have both killed hogs with it and spend many hours behind the eye piece. The XM38 is one of the first in the Pulsar Thermion line to be released. It has a 4x base magnification, 320x240 resolution, 12 microns, picture-in-picture function,...

Should hunters be required to buy a hunting license to kill wild hogs? That’s a question the Texas legislature recently considered and passed a new law concerning. Listen as Hans and Jason weigh in with their opinions on this subject. Jason also gives an update on the Pulsar Thermion shipments and the future of the Pulsar Trail thermal riflescopes.  If you’re looking for night vision or therm...

The wait is over and the speculation can end,  we finally have our hands on the brand new Pulsar Thermion thermal rifle scopes. Outdoor Legacy was chosen as one of the small handful of Pulsar dealers to receive a small pre-shipment of Thermion XM38 scopes. Jason and Hans have both been out in the field fighting bad weather conditions to kill hogs and test out these new scopes and so far, they are...

The Late Night Vision Show is proud to have Cody St. John, the lead gunsmith at Diamondback Firearms, as a special guest on episode 56 of the podcast. Hans and Jason are big fans of Diamondback AR-15/AR-10’s and Hans has put many of their rifles through his own personal torture tests that he calls “East Texas hunting”. In this interview Hans and Jason ask Cody lots of questions about Diamondback,...

On episode 55 of The Late Night Vision Show we review the 3rd and final Pulsar Axion handheld thermal monocular, the XM38. We also compare, contrast and offer our thoughts on each of the three models compared to each other. The XM38 has the highest base magnification at 5.5x, which makes is great for longer range scanning and along with the larger objective lens, makes for a very nice image qualit...

One of the most confusing aspects of thermal optics is all the different specs and jargon that gets thrown around. Thermal core resolution, pixel pitch microns, NUC’ing and the list goes on. Sometimes it sounds like a whole other language is being spoken when the discussion of thermal scopes comes up. On this week’s episode of The Late Night Vision Show, Hans and Jason take the most commonly discu...

On this episode of The Late Night Vision Show Hans and Jason are back with another handheld thermal monocular review. This week they discuss the Axion XM30 which is 2nd model of this new-for-2019 thermal handheld lineup. This is the mid-price range of the 3 current Axions and it’s the least expensive model to include internal audio/video recording and the StreamVision smartphone app. Like the othe...

Join us this week as we celebrate a milestone for The Late Night Vision Show; the 1 year anniversary of the FIRST and ONLY podcast dedicated to all things night hunting, night vision and thermal optics. On this special episode Hans and Jason reminisce about the last year and most importantly they draw the name of one lucky listener who will win a Sightmark Wraith HD night vision scope. Later in th...

 On this episode of The Late Night Vision Show, Hans and Jason give a detailed review of the Pulsar Axion Key XM30 thermal monocular. The Axion is the new for 2019 handheld thermal monocular line featuring 3 monoculars ranging in price from $1,899 to $2,599. The Axions are the smallest and lightest full functioning thermal monculars with base optical magnification to ever hit the market. The...

A question we’ve been getting repeatedly is, “how does the Sightmark Wraith HD compare to the Sightmark Photon RT?” That’s a great question so this week on the podcast Hans and Jason decided to tackle the issue with a side by side, head to head comparison of both scopes. The Photons have been the most reliable, affordable and popular digital night vision scopes on the market for 5 years and now th...

On Episode 49 of the podcast we talk about a few current updates in the night vision and thermal industry, as well discussing two hunting and shooting related news stories that have been in the mainstream headlines recently. In the 2nd segment we talk about building and using pig pipes. For those that are unfamiliar with them, a pig pipe is usually made out of 4 inch PVC pipe with holes drilled in...

On Episode 48 of The Late Night Vision Show Hans and Jason give their full hands on review of the Sightmark Wraith HD 4-32x50 digital night vision scope. The Wraith has proved to be one of the most anticipated and sought-after night vision scopes to ever hit the market. We have never seen anything like the excitement and stir caused by the announcement and release of the Wraith. We’ve had our hand...

It’s N-Vision Halo review time! We’ve been talking about N-Vision and their new high end thermal optics for several months but we’ve finally had the time to get in the field and use the final production Halo thermal optic and we’re extremely impressed to say the least, we’re actually blown away. If you’re looking for unmatched image quality, this is the scope you’ve been waiting on. Listen as Hans...

This week on The Late Night Vision Show, Hans  offers up some quick tips on calling hogs with the Convergent Bullet HP electronic  caller after having a huge success calling hogs over the last several nights.  He offers the tricks and tips he’s learned from the mistakes and success he’s had.  They guys have been so impressed with the capabilities and quality of  the Conver...