yes, 1x, wide fov are much better suited to finding more animals & faster than magnified options.
They are best used head mounted. I cannot count the number of times I've gotten on targets using it and spent what felt like an eternity walking someone with a 2.5x hand scanner or their rifle optic onto them. My TX and midwest hunting buddies have easily lost several dozen hog and coyote shot opportunities because of it in the last year.
I caught this one on video last week.
The 2 other guys were rifle scanning in this case but it's not much if at all different with a 3x hand scanner.
This one is embarrassing to me with the click no bang & pigpopper level malfunction but it shows how much of a lead I had on them. The guy who took the shot is an accomplished night hunter.
I had detected that coyote on a full run coming up hill towards us across that cut field.
I had enough time from the time I detected and got positive ID on her as she ran through deer and a coon to manually NUC my rifle optic, open my rifle optic caps, start recording and flip my helmet mounted thermal up and get on target with the rifle optic. All of that as I talked the other hunters in on locating the dog. The shooter finally got on her after my click no boom. He acknowledged being on target right before I said "hold on" in the video.
IMO, people who employ 3x scanners tend to lean on it more for the ID portion than scanning for and fixing targets or hunting large open areas.
I'd take a 1x every time in most cases outside of huge open ag fields but I also have a 2.5x scanner too for more open areas than shown in the video.