So, you want to buy a thermal scope for hunting, but you don’t know where to start. We’re going to make it easy on you by picking our three top recommendations at three price and performance tiers.

While there are plenty of budget rifle scopes, the technology behind thermal scopes used to be prohibitively expensive. This made them available only to those with deep pockets and big budgets, ...

In theory, clip-on scopes should be the thermal that every hunter wants, needs, and easily deploys. These are accessories to traditional rifles and daylight scopes, and if they don’t exactly “clip on” ...

At the lower end of the price spectrum, we matched a FLIR ThermoSight R-Series scope (RS32, 1.25-5x, 60Hz) with a Mossberg MVP Varmint rifle chambered in .223 Remington/5.56 NATO. At the other end, we ...