Pulsar core experience ?

[David E]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to buy a pulsar handheld but looked at the pulsar core XX or xp 38 also which you can put on your scope. Maybe this is more interesting? How is the quality compared to the pulsar axion or Helion38 or 50

greetings

David


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[Tim.243]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to buy a pulsar handheld but looked at the pulsar core XX or xp 38 also which you can put on your scope. Maybe this is more interesting? How is the quality compared to the pulsar axion or Helion38 or 50

greetings

David


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I use a xq38 S/H off here very pleased with it,

Tim.243

 

[alwhitt94]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to buy a pulsar handheld but looked at the pulsar core XX or xp 38 also which you can put on your scope. Maybe this is more interesting? How is the quality compared to the pulsar axion or Helion38 or 50

greetings

David


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I use my friends core all the time and it’s a brilliant bit of kit and if I were to buy a pulsar it would definitely be a core, I’ve put it up against a helion xq38 and it’s better than that the only thing I haven’t done with it is use it on a scope yet but my friend does all the time and he said it works very well.

 

[Smelly Yeti]

Not got a core but my mate has and doesn’t get on with it at all. Constant issues with POI changes left him with no confidence in it. Now uses it purely as hand held spotter and never mounted on rifle. Expensive spotter!

 

[mchughcb]

My friend uses a core extensively. I can tell you the one thing he complains about the most is that the attachment to the scope and how it connects to the device become loose over time so that it affects the POI. He has sent it back under warranty at least once that I know of.

 

[mealiejimmy]

The majority think the Core has too many shortcomings (POI shift and pixellated display at medium/high scope magnification) to be worthy of consideration, but there have been a couple of people on here who use it and like it.
I suggest you use the search function to find out about their experiences.

Cheers

Bruce

 

[weejohn]

Yes i use a pulsar core and as a handheld spotter its fantastic, i cant really comment on scope mounting it as i bought it to use as a handheld spotter.
The green image is awesome and so much easier on the eyes compared to the conventional black and white image.

 

[Smelly Yeti]

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Yes i use a pulsar core and as a handheld spotter its fantastic, i cant really comment on scope mounting it as i bought it to use as a handheld spotter.
The green image is awesome and so much easier on the eyes compared to the conventional black and white image.

To be fair (and despite my previous comments re POI shift) my mate also prefers the green image to my Helion.

 

[Freeforester]

Attention Helion users - are you tired of eye-glare from your unit?? Try this top tip today:- buy a large tin of Cadbury's "Quality street", and keep the various coloured sweet wrappers to use over your eyepiece with your mark one Royal Mail postie rubber band, to give a pleasing variety of alternative colours to your eyepiece.

It works great, but I did have to try with "Celebrations" first, just to make sure the Q St. were indeed the better choice for this issue... (Ooh, I feel a bit sick now! )

Signed, 'fatty' Freeforester!

 

[David E]

What I don’t understand is the poi changes as you put I in front of your scope so the cross decides the poi !? Or am I missing something . I tried to tie my Xp50 in front of my scope ( with some wrapping it fits nice ))
If I look thru my scope and aim to something around the house the cross on my scope stays on the same point , even if I wiggle the pulsar a little


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[Mr. Gain]

The scope shows you what the thermal is pointing at... not what the rifle is pointing at. To make those the same thing and to make sure they're the same thing all the time you need a secure, repeatable connection between the two. When I had a Core the connection worked well and zero shift was minimal (well under minute-of-fox), and my buddy now has an F455 that uses the same cover-ring system and seems even more consistent, so perhaps Pulsar have tweaked it on the last couple of years. What I didn't like about the Core was being reliant on single-use CR123As and having the controls way out in front, though I guess you could get a remote to help with that.

 

[benzac]

Have used a core for a few years , works best regards POA shift if a pop rivet is used to secure clamp & scope to each other, modified the power by fitting acrylic rods with wires through with a spare cover drilled to suit , using battery holder clamped to scope 4 rechargeable AAA's power it a treat ! sounds like a life times work but took all of hour & half to sort. Only pain have to use separate spotter.