QuarterBoreGunner
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I picked up a set of East German Military field glasses the other day from SOG for $195.00. Sarco has the same ones for $269.00.
http://www.southernohiogun.com/unusual.html
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.http://www.sarcoinc.com/feat57.html
How do I know they're the same ones? A co-worker picked up a set from Sarco and I got the ones from SOG. Exactly the same product. So save your $74.00.
Rubber armored body, with attached lens covers front and rear. the rears also house a set of yellow/glare filters for the eyepieces. Each eyepiece is seperately adjustable. Fixed 7x40 lenses with excellent glass, distortion free from edge to edge with no yellowing. Very clear. Class is advertised as being from Carl Zeiss-Jenaworks, and I can believe it. Right lens has a range finding reticle but there was no documentation on the stadia line measurments.
Right side rear has an attachment point for what I think must be some sort of active IR device. Left side has a finger activated 'shutdown' switch which closes the left lens, I'm assuming for use with the range finder.
From Sarco website:
Attachment for red illuminated range finder (Light not included but you can adopt).
Individual diopter focus w/graduations.
Shut down switch for one side of binocular for sniping use. For concentrated use of trained eye.
Super wide field of view 9.3° (gives you 148m field at 1000m)
Issued to East German border guards at “check point Charlieâ€
Considered by experts to be the finest binoculars ever built by the Carl Zeiss-Jenaworks
Their massive prism clusters and huge oculars give superlative performance in low light conditions.
Built in infrared detector for surveillance operations.
$195.00 at SOG, and that's a steal for a set of quality field glasses.
http://www.southernohiogun.com/unusual.html
Scroll down to the bottom.
.http://www.sarcoinc.com/feat57.html
How do I know they're the same ones? A co-worker picked up a set from Sarco and I got the ones from SOG. Exactly the same product. So save your $74.00.
Rubber armored body, with attached lens covers front and rear. the rears also house a set of yellow/glare filters for the eyepieces. Each eyepiece is seperately adjustable. Fixed 7x40 lenses with excellent glass, distortion free from edge to edge with no yellowing. Very clear. Class is advertised as being from Carl Zeiss-Jenaworks, and I can believe it. Right lens has a range finding reticle but there was no documentation on the stadia line measurments.
Right side rear has an attachment point for what I think must be some sort of active IR device. Left side has a finger activated 'shutdown' switch which closes the left lens, I'm assuming for use with the range finder.
From Sarco website:
Attachment for red illuminated range finder (Light not included but you can adopt).
Individual diopter focus w/graduations.
Shut down switch for one side of binocular for sniping use. For concentrated use of trained eye.
Super wide field of view 9.3° (gives you 148m field at 1000m)
Issued to East German border guards at “check point Charlieâ€
Considered by experts to be the finest binoculars ever built by the Carl Zeiss-Jenaworks
Their massive prism clusters and huge oculars give superlative performance in low light conditions.
Built in infrared detector for surveillance operations.
$195.00 at SOG, and that's a steal for a set of quality field glasses.
) a set of these for some time. Glad to know that they are high quality and inexpensive.