Picatinny, Weaver and dovetail are three different rail standards, and they are not freely interchangeable. The short version: a Picatinny rail has wider, square-bottomed locking slots (5.23 mm) on a fixed 10 mm spacing; a Weaver rail has narrower slots (4.57 mm) with no standard spacing; and rimfire/airgun dovetails are an angled rail...

A HIKMICRO Stellar 3.0 mounts like a quality day scope — standard 30 mm rings, no adapters, no surprises. Which is exactly why it's worth doing properly: most "my thermal won't hold zero" stories trace back to the mounting job, not the scope. This is the full sequence we'd use on any...

Pick up a Pulsar Thermion 2 and a Trail 3 and you're holding two answers to the same question: how should a thermal scope attach to a rifle? The Thermion 2 is a classic 30 mm tube that drops into ordinary scope rings; the Trail 3 is a monoblock that bolts to a rail through...

Quick answer: Need colour by day and IR at night? That is HIKMICRO Alpex — not a thermal. Fit by distance first: Lite ~40 mm for closer work (~150 m class); Alpex 4K A50EL as the all-round 50 mm LRF flagship; step to Alpex Pro A50PL when you want the higher-resolution 12MP sensor...