A visit to the home page of this forum will show an article
entitled (Big eyes, seeing is believing). Its an older article thats been there for quite awhile now. In PA where
i hunt and spend a good portion of my time, virtually all
long range hunting is done from fixed locations using tripod
mounted large binnoculars. The vast majority of hunters,
myself included use twin spotting scopes in machined adjustable brackets. After reading that article about 5 years ago i decided to order a pair of the 15x58 Minox that
had been used in the article. They have since been discontinued and replaced with a 15x56. I have quite a few
friends with large glasses including 2 having the 15x56
leica and 15x56 swarovskis. We did our own side by side test
with all alligned on the same objects at the same time.
Distances ran from about 400 on out to about 800 yds. All
who looked thought the Leica was slightly brighter than the
other 2 but the defination was no better. 3 out of 4 thought
it was pretty much a toss up over which was better for the
use we were testing for. The Swaro owner insisted his were
just a tad better. But even he admitted he wouldnt have
spent the difference after seeing the test we did.
