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Not tried it personally but know a couple folks that started that way. They have since gone professional and in so doing went to good camera gear. Most scopes have optically poor glass resulting in some color separation, do not let in enough light, and have a very shallow depth of field making it hard to really nail focus.

About 650yds (Google earth measure) out with Cookie's Canon 500 mm lens and a Canon EOS 70D body. She's picked up a couple better bodies since.


This was a real stretch. Just short of 800 yds with the same gear. Bull had just been in a fight and broken his left antler.


Both have been cropped to remove a ton of extraneous background. While the digi-scopes do document one's sightings, publication quality is a pretty rare event.

One can now pick up a prime Canon 800mm f11 lense for about $800. A Canon 200 to 800mm zoom is right at $2 grand. About what one might pay today for a better scope.

Good stuff NM’. The porn is a nice touch.

1minute, good pics. I don’t see me ever going with photography equipment, just fun taking pics of stuff.

NM....awesome stuff my man!

I plan to get more serious with the MagView this summer.

Most of these are probably repeats, but here goes:
Freehanding it:

Thanks gentlemen! It would be awesome if the quality was better but it would be tough packing a camera and binos and a spotter. I’ll be set up with one of the magnetic adapters next year.

A few more. I have lots and lots of these kinds of pics but nothing real close up like I’d like, and like what has been shown thus far on this thread by others.






I plan to get better this summer.
Great pics everyone!

Badasss Tinman. Thanks! NMpistolero, what magnetic adaptor are you talking about? My Phoneskope bit the dirt.

That’s an awesome pic Tiny.

The sheep are pretty neat as well.

A NM dall. Guessing she’s old?

A New Mexico ‘dall’? Looks like a knocked up ewe to me, or one with a huge tumor or something…

What is a NM dall? Just a white(ish) colored desert or Rocky?

Ya, sarcasm. Never seen a desert that light.

Ahhh, I see. It’s been a long day. Give me a break.

I do know Texas has ’Dahl’ sheep which are some sort of domestic/wild hybrid, I think. I assume they’ve spread out towards NM at some point.

A few more as I wait for my Prime Rib…

[quote=T_Inman]A few more. I have lots and lots of these kinds of pics but nothing real close up like I’d like, and like what has been shown thus far on this thread by others.

My pictures aren’t close just heavily zoomed and cropped. A lot of times I take video and then take screenshots.

JG- I think both the Ollin and the magview are nice but in especially like the way the Ollin just snaps into place. I do like magview scope covers though.

One tip I picked up is to either use the timer or to use the old style of earbuds as remote to avoid shake from touching the phone.

Those "Texss Dall" sheep are not free ranging..They are privately owned animals classified as livestock under state law and are kept behind high fences..

I doubt there will be sny "migration" of them to NM unless it is via a StockTrailer..

If that’s in your unit I think it maybe a gene. I found this ram and he’s super light too

The timer makes a big difference IMO.

Been screenshotting some videos as well.

Keep the pics coming.

Ya, I could tell some were zoomed in and cropped, but they’re still ‘close’ and look really good.

I have a simple remote with a single button that bluetooths to my phone. I use it when taking pics of myself and my critters since I hunt almost exclusively alone. It is way better than using the self timer. I suspect it would be awesome in the Digiscoping to avoid the shake caused by touching the phone.