Manufacturers

    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.

    ◆ Manufacturer

    Trijicon

    Michigan machining, MIL-STD testing, and lifetime coverage on glass and housing. The premium buys the American build, not a better sensor.

    Lineup
    6 scopes
    Price band
    $6,499 – $9,499
    Sensors by
    BAE Systems
    Warranty
    Lifetime / 3-yr elec.
    Screen (the display you look at):HD 1024×768FHD 1920×1080QHD 2560×2560 micro-OLEDLRF built-in rangefinderDUAL FOV switchable dual lens (wide + long)
    The numbered chip is the sensor inside the scope — its class, from the real core (native resolution and NETD live on each product page) — not the screen.
    How the lineup is built

    6 names, 3 pictures, 2 packages

    Every Trijicon is a picture wearing a package. The picture comes from the sensor and the lens. The package is the line — the screen, the body, the rangefinder — and the price. The model name tells you the package, not the picture.

    6
    names on the shelf
    what you're shown
    strip the packaging
    3
    builds
    sensor + lens · the picture
    dressed as
    2
    packages
    screen, rangefinder, body · the price

    Distance comes from the lens. Within a sensor, the base magnification tracks the lens: 60 mm reads 3×, 35 mm reads 1.75×, 24 mm reads 1.2× on the same 640×480 sensor. The lines set the screen, the body and the price — the picture is the sensor and the glass.

    Where your money goes

    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.

    Buys picture
    Build step: sensor or lens. Buys detail at distance.
    Lens 35 → 60 mm
    +$1,500
    Lens 24 → 35 mm
    +$1,000
    Buys packaging
    Package step: screen, rangefinder, body. No extra detail at distance.
    IR-HUNTER → REAP-IR (same build)
    +$500

    Each step is priced from Trijicon's own lineup by holding everything else identical — the median across every matched pair on our board. Refreshed with every catalog update.

    The smarter buy

    What Trijicon's own price list says

    Computed straight from the specs and prices on the board — where the same picture sells twice, and what a feature really costs. Refreshed with every catalog update.

    REAP-IR 60mm
    Trijicon
    REAP-IR 60mm
    REAP-IR
    22° apparent field of view. How big the view looks.
    67
    Image
    54
    Handling
    60
    Warranty
    The body is the +$500
    The IR-HUNTER 60mm runs the same sensor, lens and screen for $8,999. The extra buys the REAP-IR body and trim — same picture on the same screen.
    Class-premium price, below-median picture
    Priced $9,499 against the 640 class's $3,994 going rate, with an image score of 66.8 under the class median of 72.8 (#68 of 80).
    REAP-IR 35mm
    Trijicon
    REAP-IR 35mm
    REAP-IR
    21° apparent field of view. How big the view looks.
    68
    Image
    64
    Handling
    60
    Warranty
    The body is the +$500
    The IR-HUNTER 35mm runs the same sensor, lens and screen for $7,499. The extra buys the REAP-IR body and trim — same picture on the same screen.
    Class-premium price, below-median picture
    Priced $7,999 against the 640 class's $3,994 going rate, with an image score of 68.2 under the class median of 72.8 (#59 of 80).
    ◆ Behind the name

    Who you're actually buying from

    Who makes the sensor
    BAE Systems (USA · per dealers/press)

    Trijicon itself never names the sensor maker, but dealer listings and trade press document a BAE Systems MicroIR core. It sits in the same native-sensitivity tier as 640s costing a third as much — the premium is Michigan machining, military-standard testing, and the ACOG pedigree.

    Strengths

    • Genuinely US-made — designed, engineered, machined, and assembled in Michigan or California, tested to MIL-STD-810G. Real and rare; nearly every competitor imports.
    • Lifetime warranty on the optics and housing — stronger structural coverage than the time-limited rivals.
    • A 60Hz, low-latency image with minimal processing — stable under recoil, no software wash.

    Cautions

    • You are not paying for a better sensor — the 640 core's native sensitivity matches scopes at a third of the price.
    • The highest prices in the category: $7,200 to $9,800 for the scopes.
    • The lifetime headline covers glass and housing; the electronics — the part that fails on a thermal — get 3 years, non-transferable.
    Founded 1981HQ Wixom, MIStaff not disclosed
    ◆ The going rate

    What each upgrade costs in the Trijicon lineup

    Every clean single-feature step inside Trijicon's own catalog — a bigger sensor, a longer lens, a rangefinder. Each dot is a pair where only that one thing changed.

    Upgrade

    $0$0.8k$1.5k

    Objective lens

    median +$1,250 · 4 pairs

    Line swap

    median +$500 · 3 pairs

    Each dot is a clean single-feature step · black tick = median · bar = full spread

    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.

    ◆ Where to buy

    Who sells Trijicon

    6 stores list Trijicon scopes today, and their prices differ — on a typical Trijicon scope the cheapest store is about $961 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.

    EuroOptic / Scopelist
    6 of 6
    MidwayUSA
    6 of 6
    OpticsPlanet
    6 of 6
    TNVC
    6 of 6
    Palmetto State Armory
    4 of 6
    Ultimate Night Vision
    4 of 6