I have a Meopta Meostar binocular for doing my looking.
Great minds there. My little brother just got the latest iteration and man, they aren’t getting worse.
Beav, what is your favorite while you’re hunting for lashes?
When I bought them I was more flush with cash than I've been in a long while. Nevertheless, when I compared them to Swarovski and Leica and they gave me so much of the performance of the traditional alpha models for so much less I bought the Meostar. That's been a while now and I don't see myself replacing them.
I've got a buddy here that kills more deer than anybody else I know. Probably averages 8-10 per season over the last 10 years. Never seen him carry a pair of bino's and his main rifle is a bone stock Tikka .270 with an old Denver Redfield 3-9 on it.
Probably not much time to mess with bins with that style hunting I’d think.
How’s your buddy kill 8-10 per year in NY? He has special crop damage permits?
Nope. He usually kills 4-5 a year during the regular seasons {bow/gun}, which ends mid Dec., then hunts a special late season on university land {Cornell} that runs the whole month of January. The university gives him 12 additional tags a year. One season 4 or 5 years back he filled all 12 of those university tags but most years he gets sick of killing/dragging/ butchering before he fills them all. He gives a lot of venison to his daughters and other folks who need/want some every year as he and his wife simply can't eat it all.
