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I've never once missed a shot opportunity with one of my 20mm scopes under our sunrise to sunset regs. In fact, often on my way out of the woods well after legal hours have ended, I've scoped deer I could still have easily shot.

Right !,,,,,Who doesn’t love a long, sexy, pair of eye curtains on a mount.

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I have been in spots and situations on my lease where my 20mm had me wishing for my 6x42. Otherwise I'd have more of the small ones because I like the way they handle on a rifle.

Absolutely, agree.

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Nailed it…..

I prefer excellent glass that allows me to spot the electronic wires on the remote decoy deers F&G use to trick those losers who run lesser quality scopes.

#BeaverIsHard2Catch

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I’m with you MM, while I like those small optics they don’t cut us any favors in the canopy near dark.

What about you fellas with point restrictions in the East, all binocular work in the woods to verify points?

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I much prefer the little 20mm scopes for here. It's too bad they are becoming extinct.

I think alpha glass matters far more with binos/spotting scopes than rifle scopes, particularly for spot and stalk hunting out west. Having said that, depending on where you’re hunting, the benefit of alpha glass in a scope can make a difference in low light, or long range.

Using a rifle scope to glass for animals goes against the core of basic gun safety…. Please get used to using binos….

I have a Meopta Meostar binocular for doing my looking.

Beav has probably been drinking and everything is blurry…

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?

I'm also in the Alpha binocular camp. I spend MOST of my time behind the binocular, I spend mere seconds looking through a scope and theres plenty of nice, good, and reliable hunting scopes in an " affordable" price range.

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.

We got my kid some B1 Plus 8’s and they are pretty impressive.

Don’t know if it’s a mind game, or the new coatings, but much better IMO than the B1’s I had a few years ago.

YOU get bummed when yo u scan with your rifle scope and see another hunter in your cross hair???? Do us other hunters a favor...USE BINOCULARS. This is one safe way to avoid a PREVENTABLE HUNTING ACCIDENT.

Please tell us all you were just kidding. This is a teachable moment: DO NOT SCAN WITH YOUR RIFLE SCOPE!

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.

SOB, wish you would have posted this a few years ago.

Around here it's 30 minutes before or after sunrise/ sunset. Even if you're in a tree stand in a more open area and Deer Run just inside the tree line it can get real dark during legal light. Most of my larger game hunting glass is Zeiss Conquest and Meopta /Cableas instinct.