Mine is the gen3+ alpha w/ manual gain and not white phosphor. When I called he recommended to go with the standard green and not white phosphor for hunting coyote in brush and fields. The included IR is junk. I run mine with a Torch Pro and I'm very happy with it. Even my partner who is a "mil-spec or go home" kind of guy was impressed with it. I have only hunted a few times with it so far. One stand we had a bobcat come in about 60 yards in broken brush and broomstraw grass. He shoots with thermal so he was about ready to squeeze when I called him off the shot after ID'ing the cat instead of a dog. I could clearly see the head, eyes, ears and was a no-brainer on what it was. Another set we had a pair of coyotes hang up on a field edge about 100 yards out. I could watch them walk around and cross back and forth across a ditch but they stayed back in the brush...we were waiting for both to come in the open. I could easily see both eyes reflect very clearly through the brush on one and feel confident I could have threaded one right into his dome if I had tried. Another set I had a coyote hard charge, picked him up about 100 yards out in thermal and he was very easily seen quickly through the NV without the IR and about 3/4 moon. I watched him come in to 50 yards and circle the call before trotting off and stopping. I shot him at 70 yards and then follow up shots past 150 were easy, I could see the dust he was kicking up. I use the mounting adapters that connect directly to the day scope objective lens and it seems very solid..much more than when I had a PVS14 on the back of the scope. I checked POI and it is exactly the same as well.