Anyone here familiar with Hertel & Reuss binoculars?
The reason I ask is I headed over the Continental Divide yesterday and took in the Hamilton, Montana Gunshow and found a pair.
The binoculars are marked:
Hertel & Reuss
Optik
Kassel
Binocular
7x35
Wide Angle
Made in Germany
I have never seen a pair of these before and in the confines of the darkish Ravalli County Fairgrounds Pavillion I tried to put them through the tests I could conduct therein.
They focused fine, and down to a fairly close distance - I did set them up on a pillar and checked them for collimation at about 150 feet - they appeared to be quite close in their collimation.
Anyway I beat the seller (he was selling off an estate) down a fair amount from the asking price of $65.00 and headed home with them - for better or for worse.
The drive home (135 miles) was mostly in snow squalls and white out conditions so I did not get to check them out til this morning.
They do seem to offer a bright and undistorted image and the collimation at 650 yards is right on.
The binos came with a quality black leather form fitted case.
Anyone familiar with this company or their binoculars?
Any chance of repairing them if they should need it?
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
