You know, I have been in exactly that case watching a red fox with a Nikon 6x42 on a gutpile. My just introduced at the time Nikon got a case of sunflare but my daughters 6x42 Lupy would have saved the day if we hadn't spent so much time dinking around exchanging rifles to compare.
But I'll bet money a brand new Nikon 6x42 has got that all figured out.
And I'll bet a guy who can shoot and knows his rifle and scope can make any hunting shot with a nice new middle of the road 6x42 and wouldn't ever have to say, "Boy if I only had a top of the line S&B I would have killed it."
But technology will certainly do stuff for us, it can make tasks easier and technology can certainly reduce the level of skill or training required to achieve.
Somewhere we each draw a line in the sand.
Am thinking that in the near future people may be tending to draw that line more on the practical side as the sporting goods industry appears to me to be showing all the hallmarks of speculative excess--in the way of expensive products that do not add a practical field advantage. A harbinger of less diposable income straight ahead.
