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Yesterday hiking out with a quartered deer, I eventually make it to a horse trail at the same time as another hunter headed back in.

"You see anything?" He asks... which I thought the answer was rather obvious given my pack. He only stuck to the horse trail, no issue with that - gives me better odds of finding deer before him when I'm off the trail.

Anyway, in response to his question, I say yeah, there's four deer on that ridge right there. He doesn't bother looking. We talk for a minute, I see the deer are moving a little, so I glass them with my binos. "There's a buck" I say. "Where?" "Right there on that ridge, like I said." So now he lifts his rifle up and starts glassing the whole damn ridgeline with his scope!

I don't see any binos with him, or rangefinder. Not wanting him to keep scoping the whole damn hillside I guide him on them. I've been helped out by others and like to help out if I can. Didn't hear a shot on my way out, and am glad this time.

Where the [bleep] are your binoculars?

Too many deer hunters view their high power rifle scopes as multi function devices rather than a rifle sight. I don’t want a guy pointing a high powered rifle at me or my kids trying to discern what we are. I always carry binoculars hunting. This is a hard concept to instill in other deer hunters.

Currently...in my truck.

In my pack in preparation for a trip.

Cheap ass, my guess.

On the back porch table.

Tub in back of Jeep, w my hunting clothes.

By our back door, the truck, my hunting pack, and our gun safe.

On the way here from Cameraland........ Doug got me with his Sunday Avoiding the Inlaws sale............

On top of my shooting supply cabinet.

Hunting pack, front door and truck

In the pile of stuff that's being staged for my elk hunt.

I don't use binos, most of the thickets I set up over on my own private family land, the shots are less than 50 yards. I still have 20/20 vision and 28 teeth in my head.


I don't have a corn feeder 400 yrds down at the end of a sendero that I would need binos for to pick out which specific numbered ear tag I'm supposed to shoot.

Brand yours?

Not surprised. You and Sandbilly need to hunt together.

My Leicas are somewhere out in the Bering Sea. Lost them crossing a high river/creek on a Grizzly hunt.

Saw mine yesterday under the back seat of the truck when I was digging around looking for something else.

If you really want to help them out tell them why you think it looks like they're willing to shoot a fellow hunter, then give them your bino's so they know you're really serious. Some can't afford much and if they can't they wind up with junk that's almost as useful as nothing. I was there once.

Lost my quad b'nocs just this morning chousing yearling steers around the south pasture. Headed back over there to look for then now, before the snow hits.

8X's are sitting on a table beside my rocking chair on our back porch.
10X's are sitting next to the kitchen table
6X's are in my hunting daypack.

Anyone who doesn't use binos when hunting isn't a very good hunter. My 6X's have found pieces of deer in the thick stuff that lead to me shooting a nice buck. They are indispensable to me when doing any type of big game hunting.