JFrank
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8x is for sissies....
Just messin fellas, I recently upgraded to 10x42 HD and we love them.
Just messin fellas, I recently upgraded to 10x42 HD and we love them.
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8x or 10x binos
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i carried 10x42’s for years. I’m getting to old and shaky to use 10’s for serious work anymore.
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JFrank
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I had 10x50 's for years, we could see for what seemed like miles... but Damn heavy and today's optics are Sooo much better that upgrading was a no brainer
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Boy that ain’t no joke! Optical quality, even in mid level glass is far superior now days. And high level glass is simply , unbelievable. Optical quality trumps magnification, but high optical quality makes high magnification into a rock star!
I looked through a pair of Swaro 12 power binos last year. If a had a spare $3k I’d own a pair as the perfect blend between a spotting scope and 8 power binos. The detail you can pick up in them is unbelievable. I just wouldn’t want to carry them all day or use them for hand held long term glassing.
Which brings up another interesting point. Using a tripod mount for your binos takes glassing to a whole other level. You can effectively use high powered binos all day with a tripod adapter because it takes the hand shake out of the equation. I used an outdoorsmen adapter on my recent bear hunt, it was super nice. And you can set the binocular at a stationary point so you can look down or show somebody what you’re looking at without having to hand off the binos and try to explain where the object is. You just set the binos to the spot and say look here. It works great.
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Absolutely right.
When mule deer hunting in New Mexico we will 'glass' the hillsides for 'bedded' deer among the rocks and Pinon Pine. They are hard to pick out in the shadows even with good glass. So minimizing 'shake' is very important and we will sometimes glass an area for an hour or more.
Using a tripod or rest of some type in essential to avoid eyestrain and as you say...helps pinpoint an animal if someone else can't find it by directions only.
I still only use an 8 power bino most of the time but my larger pair are 8 x 56 and quite large, so a tripod is just the ticket. My smaller 8 x 43 I can rest against something and do fine.
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