Having had a look at a few recent threads on the forum I started some time ago, I just thought the following may be helpful to some. I’m not interested in conflicting debate, but simply giving my personal experience and opinions to those who may find it helpful..
On the charging and security aspect of the ATN 4K pro. I simply drilled a 20 mm hole in the bottom side corner of one of my cabinets, and put in a removable rubber blanking grommet,
I now simply thread the small end of the charging wire through this. This allows the rifle to be locked up and still on charge.
You could equally use a metal cable gland, reverse fit into the cabinet and put on this a screwed blank end if you wanted a permanent tamperproof entrance.
Since this I have also used a small cigar shaped and sized mobile phone power pack that was a free-be from Screw-Fix, this works perfect left in the cabinet, and if you can buy one of these for less tan £5. I now leave this in the pick-up as a back up. My experience of battery life in the ATN is fantastic it lasts for night upon night, there’s 18 hours worth of running time, and I switch off both my Ir and scope between shots.
I recently downloaded the recent software updates with no issues at all.
On the reliability front, if you purchase one of these ATN 4K scopes from “Optical Solutions”, from the owner of the company “Cliff” he, tests each and every one of them prior to dispatch. He simply rejects any faulty ones at distribution. This massively cuts down any risk of obtaining a defective unit. He’s also there on phone backup every day for any software help or advice.
I’m guessing in the end, you rather end up in a small minority with a bad one, or in the majority with a good one, and mine simply continues to be the best set up I’ve ever used for foxing. I use it on 8X magnification, with the ian Sirrell IR out to 400 years plus all day long, using it with either top end loaded 50 grain Vmax in 223, or 110 grain Vmax in 308 on windy nights.
When swapping between rifles, the one shot zeroing is simply fantastic. I now do it in nigh-time mode, inch high at 200 yards with two shots. It takes a couple of minutes.
Simply fantastic and it never moves and has always kept Zero perfectly.
I uses 30mm opti-locks and not the picatinny mount that came with the ATN scope.
