Ep. 442 | Veil™ 400 Thermal Monocular — Vortex’s Hottest New Product

Vortex Nation Podcast

Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

All your thermal scanning needs are met with the high-performing, feature-rich, easy-to-use, intuitive, Veil™ 400 Thermal Monocular. Joe Heltemes and Ben Farrell from Vortex’s product development team join Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn to talk through its tech, features, and user-friendly functionality. Hog hunting, predator hunting, game recovery, and more, if you’ve been thinking about getting into the thermal game, the Veil 400™ is your ticket.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:15.5	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, Mr. Ryan Muckinhern, to my right, across from us, we have Mr. Joe Helthmus and Mr. Ben Farrell from our product development team.
0:28.6	And guys, this is a new product alert. It's a new category alert. And this thing is hot.
0:36.3	Golly.
0:36.9	More accurately, it's going to tell you if things are hot.
0:40.6	This is the veil, 400 thermal monocular.
0:46.1	And this has been a long time coming.
0:48.3	Yes, it has.
0:49.3	We're happy to be here to talk about it, Mark.
0:50.9	I'm pumped about this thing.
0:52.5	Our customers have been asking for years. You're
0:56.1	going to do a thermal. You're going to do a thermal. You're going to do a thermal. And I think
0:59.6	it was something that we were listening to. It was something that we wanted to do right. It was something
1:06.0	that I think ebbed and flowed a little bit over time, but none of that matters because it is here right now.
1:13.7	And this thing is cool.
1:15.2	It's hot.
1:16.7	Sorry, it's hot, but it tells cool, too.
1:19.3	It's uncooled.
1:19.6	It does both.
1:20.8	I have a question.
1:22.0	Yeah.
1:22.6	I am very thermally ignorant in that this was the first thermal that I ever used that wasn't just like a
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