{"id":63121,"date":"2023-02-18T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T14:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=63121"},"modified":"2023-02-18T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T14:59:25","slug":"going-thermal-without-going-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/going-thermal-without-going-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Thermal Without Going Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63123\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/02\/thermal.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/testing-the-agm-ts19-256\/\">Is Cheap Thermal Worth It? Testing the AGM TS19-256<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>The first thing any hunter or shooter learns when they start looking for a thermal rifle scope is that THERMAL IS EXPENSIVE. With the average thermal scope costing around three thousand dollars and higher-end models easily reaching six grand or more, there is a substantial barrier to entry for anyone that wants to get into thermal.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>Thankfully for all the buddies on a budget, there is the AGM Rattler. With the base model costing only $1099, this unit is much more accessible to the average person. Although, this comparatively low price tag begs the question; is a thermal scope this cheap any good?\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57843\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/09\/thermal.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Cheap Thermal Worth It? Testing the AGM TS19-256 &nbsp; The first thing any hunter or shooter learns when they start looking for a thermal rifle scope is that THERMAL IS EXPENSIVE. With the average thermal scope costing around three thousand dollars and higher-end models easily reaching six grand or more, there is a substantial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[401,10026],"tags":[15652,15653],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}