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I'm with you Indy.

I didn't take binos to Zim this past August and did not miss them one bit.

I think a lot depends on what and where you are hunting...but for my PG in the Eastern Cape and DG in the BVC, I was fine not switching back and forth between binos and rifle.

My PHs were happy because that was less movement by me, to spook game. Plus I focused more on my rifle handling.

I can see what I need to see with the naked (62 year old) eye or through my scope when time to shoot.

Different strokes for different folks.

Thanks for that, Mule Deer and for the rest of your comments. I agree with them all. I am the one who suggested 8x vs 10x in this discussion. - but only for the following reasons. Most people are not experts. I was trying to bring more of us into the circle of hunters who appreciate finding game for themselves. Or who use glass instead of feet as an efficient strategy. I have no argument at all with those who have the skills or physical ability to use more magnification than 8x in their binoculars. But those "who suggest not bothering to bring any binoculars when hunting" are an unfortunately large proportion of the hunting public. I'm just trying to nudge them in the proper direction. Like any caring hunter would do.

I am somewhat flabbergasted at the suggestion that you don't need to take a binocular when you go hunting--especially in Africa. There is so much to see: new landscapes and habitats, strange critters and animal behaviors--things that you will see with a good binocular, some of which you may never see again.

Hell, I don't even go out to sit in the back yard or on the front porch without a binocular and a camera.

Exactly.

But apparently a lot of "hunters" are indeed out there just to shoot animals.

Ridiculous isn't it? I can't imagine......