Well having spoken to
@Blackwood Outdoors regarding the early issues being sorted i bought the CQ35 as an upgrade to my Pulsar XQ38LRF.
And what an upgrade it is, the image quality and detail blows the Pulsar out of the water, ive been foxing on the golf course and then stalking muntjac yesterday, the difference is like night and day.
Its not just the image quality, its the other features, the auto shut off works a treat so when its hanging off the lanyard it shuts down so no lighting your bonce up and as soon as you move it back towards your eye its on again.
The LRF is instant! ive set it to 5 seconds so you get a bit more time to ping the quarry accurately, the default is 15seconds so thats not helping with battery life, sometimes it seemed like a lifetime for the Pulsar to read the distance and the Hik is far superior on this front.
Battery life, i got 3 hours before the LRF warning but i was hammering it messing with the settings and rangefinding everything lol, it carried on for another 30mins before i called it a night, the battery showed 25% when i stuck it on the charger so its probably good for another hour once the LRF is disabled.
Yesterday got 3 1/2 hours so its not too bad, i imagine this can be improved with some higher quality/capacity batteries.
The field of view at 2.0 is much more efficient than the 3.5 of the Pulsar, another plus.
In all i couldn’t be happier with my purchase, i’ll admit that i haven’t compared the Condor to others in the same price bracket but like i say it kills the Pulsar on everything, durability? well we will have to see but thats what warranties are for should there be an issue.