Anyone using this, or has used this?  I'd love to get into thermal, but I don't want a $6k RH25 sitting in a drawer unused for most of it's life.  If i could as least shoot it during the day at the range, it would seem more reasonable to purchase.

You can use them during the day but if you’re in a hot and dry area everything will kinda be the same color

I'm in GA too

It works, but the contrast on an uncooled thermal won’t be a stark and things may bleed together.  Best bet is a wooded/leafy/temperate backdrop scenery or winter with snow.  Arid/hot/dry isn’t going be easy, but it can be done.  Very high %RH & DP are bad for thermal too.  This is true day or night.  Water is opaque to thermal (which is why foliage is excellent cover) and lots of water in the air is hard on image quality.  You can have low %RH and high DP or high DP and low %RH and the thermal works fine (each would actually be low air water content) but if both are high the image seems washed out.

I zero my thermals in the day all the time. I use the toe/boot  warmers that have the adhesive on one side and just slap it on a target.  They don’t last long with good air exposure in warmer temps - they burn themselves out in like half an hour. In the winter out in the open they shine for like 2 hours. They only last so long in boots and gloves because there’s bad ventilation there.

Now, cryocooled thermal surveillance grade thermal doesn’t care too much. It’ll see contrast in the desert and cut through the mirage while doing it.

I messed with a few thermals in the desert and Texas. Daytime was interesting, but at night it’s amazing. I’ve heard here in GA summers with the humidity stuff gets washed out but haven’t seen it myself.

Works great in the woods when it's cold and rainy. Almost as useful as at night.

You will need the rubber thingy on the eyepiece to limit light.

Bedded down





Up and moving

In direct sunlight yes. In the gloom I run the mount out as far from my eye as I can and you keep your binocular vision and look through the thermal when you want kinda like a hud. Seems one of those new sting ir would be awesome for this since it wouldn't block as much of your vision as larger thermals.

I have an RH25 that i clip on in front of my builds to shoot during the day all the time.  As other have said its not as nice during the day as it is at night, but its pretty good to train with.

The RH25 is amazing.  Scanner, head mounted, clipon.  The resolution is fantastic