Every scope a brand makes, at a glance.
See what sets a brand's scopes apart, what you get as the price climbs, and which one is right for your hunt.
AGM Global Vision
A veteran-led company in Texas selling HIKMICRO-built scopes under its own name. The hardware matches the Chinese originals; the service is US-based.
Adder V2
QHD screen line
Evolver
Newest 1280 flagship
Secutor
Rangefinder + longest glass
Rattler V3
Current core line
Clarion
Switchable dual-lens optic
Rattler V2
Value core line — every sensorVarmint V2
Rattler + rangefinder
AGM — all 24 scopes, line by line
What AGM builds on
No other brand on our board sells a scope on AGM's sensors — its HikMicro sensors appear nowhere else.
24 names, 10 pictures, 7 packages
Every AGM scope is a picture wearing a package. The picture comes from the sensor and lens. The package is the screen, the rangefinder, the body. The model name tells you the package, not the picture.
The magnification is a package trick. The same 384 sensor on a 35 mm lens ships as a 3×, a 3.5×, and a 4×, priced from $1,795 to $2,795. All three capture the identical picture. The bigger number is the eyepiece, not more detail at distance.
Which dollar buys picture, which buys packaging
Two kinds of price step hide in a lineup. Build steps buy detail at distance: a bigger sensor, a longer lens. Package steps buy polish, not detail: a sharper screen, a rangefinder, a different body. Worth knowing which one a price jump is before you pay it.
Each step is priced by holding everything else identical. The dashed bar is a stack of package steps, not one. The 2560×2560 micro-OLED screen alone runs about +$1,400, the single priciest package feature.
Same score, same price. One's the better buy.
Both score 78 for image. Both cost $4,295. Here's what separates them.
Who you're actually buying from
Most of AGM's consumer thermal is built by HIKMICRO. Same sensor, different name on the housing — cross-shop the twin's street price before you pay more for the name.
Strengths
- Most distance per dollar in its tiers — a current-gen 640-class scope lands well under comparable US-built 640s.
- Widest lineup and deepest dealer network, serviced from Texas and the EU.
- A real company: ISO 9001, State Dept. registration, two service centers — not a vanish-overnight Amazon brand.
Cautions
- You may pay a premium over the identical HIKMICRO twin — check both prices.
- The marketed sensitivity figure (NETD) is often a software-tuned number, not the sensor's native one.
- China-sourced cores behind "US manufacturer" marketing — a real consideration for gov/LE buyers.
What each upgrade costs in the AGM lineup
Every clean single-feature step inside AGM's own catalog — a bigger sensor, a longer lens, a rangefinder. Each dot is a pair where only that one thing changed.
Upgrade
AGM: Same 640 sensor and glass — the +$1,300 is purely the bigger, sharper screen.
AGM: Stepping Varmint → Adder buys the QHD screen; the sensor is unchanged.
AGM: Pay up for the QHD screen, wider FOV and rangefinder — not a better picture. The cheaper 50mm Rattler actually identifies farther.
AGM: Same scope plus a rangefinder is +$500 on the 640.
AGM: A laser rangefinder adds about $200 at the entry tier.
Lines run from the flagship at the top down to the entry models, and within each line the priciest sits first. Prices are current street prices.
Who sells AGM
17 stores list AGM scopes today, and their prices differ — on a typical AGM scope the cheapest store is about $156 below the most expensive. Each scope’s own page lists its stores with the current price, shipping, and return terms. EuroOptic and Scopelist share one owner, so they count as one store.