I remember reading an article in Guns Digest that made an big impact on me, about a guide's view of working with clients ( by Jim Zumba?? John Barsness??)
One comment made in that article was the writer/guide would rather see a client show up with a beat up 270 Winchester bolt and a simple 4x scope, than a shiny new magnum rifle and big variable scope, and then have the "magnum rifle hunter" show up with a dinky pair of binoculars.
The writer's / guide's advice was to have the client put the bigger part of their optics budget into the best binocs they could afford, and not into the rifle scope. More time on the hunt was going to be spent using the binocs, not the rifle scope.
This approach struck me hard that made a lot of sense to me. It was an excellent, very enlightening and useful article. Bottom !ine? Alpha glass on the binocs first, decent glass on the rifle scope second.
