Every thermal scope, on even ground.
More than 150 thermal scopes are sold in the US right now, and their spec sheets all read alike. HuntGrade scores every one of them on the same math, so the differences that matter stand out and you can find the scope that fits your hunt. These are the rules that keep the ground even.
No one can buy a score.
No sponsorships, no paid placements, no free review units. We earn a commission when you buy through some of the retailer links here — it's marked on the page, and it's not an input to any formula. The scores only work if the person buying the scope is the only one we answer to.
Same math for every scope.
Every thermal riflescope sold in the US is in the catalog and goes through the same published formulas — and price never touches them, so a $1,500 scope and a $10,000 scope are scored as scopes, not price tags. Whether one is worth the money is its own question, and it gets its own page.
When a spec comes in two versions, we show both.
Some numbers arrive marketed — a smoothed sensitivity figure, a warranty that runs from the factory date instead of your purchase. Where the marketed number and the measured one differ, both are on the page, so you know what you're comparing.
We name our gaps.
Nobody has real endurance data on thermal scopes yet — including us — so reliability isn't a published score while we build the failure database. Where we don't know something, the page says so.