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When I die I hope I don't start voting democrat.
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I used : Swarovski EL 8x32 Swarovski CL 10x30 Swarovski pocket 10x25 Maven B3 10x30 All were excellent! I would like to try a pair of Nikon Monarch HG 8x30's soon.....Hb
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Zeiss 10X56 because almost all of our hunting is overlooking food plots or cutovers.
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BX-4 PRO GUIDE HD 8X42MM I bought off the classifieds. I bought mine new but these were the main ones. I used my old Bausch and Lomb 7x35 once this year but discovered the right eyepiece was broken and wouldn’t turn so I couldn’t focus very well. Dale PS, no tree stand or deer shack here.
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GPO Passion HD 10x. Great glass for the money.
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Meopta Meostar 12x50.........Same as last year.
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Vortex Razor 8x42 for the last couple of years. They’ve done very well.
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I don’t hunt whitetails out of a tree stand but if I did I would use the Swarovski 8X32 range. That’s all I use for everything…
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I use several, but typically favor my older Bushnell Elite (B&L) 8x43 from 2005 or so. Good balance of weight, performance, and ergos. Leupold Gold Ring HD 10x43 often goes to pipeline/pasture/cutover duty. Little 6x Leupold Yosemite goes to ladder stands or climbers.
Now with even more aplomb
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This year hunting from a ground blind I used two different pair depending on location and terrain.
My old favorite Swarovski SLC 8x30WB (since 1997) and for some large fields I used the Meopta Meostar 10x42 HD's I purchased from Doug in 2018.
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Semper Fi
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"Full time night woman? I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads."
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Swarovski SLC 8x42 for bow season "" """"" 10x56 for rifle season
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Meopta 10x42 Meostar HD
Swaro 7x42’s
Meopta 8x32 Meostar
Semper Fi
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I have used the same binoculars for about 20 years or more, 10x Leica Geovids. I don't leave home without them. Cat Same here for about 15 years.
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I can appreciate that lots of the guys on here use very good binoculars, but I do wonder how many of you use them in our typical northern public land, second growth, limited visibility deer stand hunting? Agriculture fields, trophy hunting, antler restrictions, no rifle scope, then sure the binoculars. The deer I hunt in the national forest I see because they are moving and I am stationary, so the advantage is with me. If the deer is stationary and I am moving like glassing, then the advantage is with the deer. If I need to confirm a buck from a doe, my rifle scope does that and I am already ready to shoot. There is a good deal of movement that will spook a deer to transition from using binoculars to mounting a rifle, so to borrow that line from the song "30 Point Buck", "There he was, gone." No one in the northern hunting camps that I've been in has used them.
My other auto is a .45
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I've owned Pentax, Kahles and Bushnell, for the money Bushnell is a good binocular.
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I can appreciate that lots of the guys on here use very good binoculars, but I do wonder how many of you use them in our typical northern public land, second growth, limited visibility deer stand hunting? Agriculture fields, trophy hunting, antler restrictions, no rifle scope, then sure the binoculars. The deer I hunt in the national forest I see because they are moving and I am stationary, so the advantage is with me. If the deer is stationary and I am moving like glassing, then the advantage is with the deer. If I need to confirm a buck from a doe, my rifle scope does that and I am already ready to shoot. There is a good deal of movement that will spook a deer to transition from using binoculars to mounting a rifle, so to borrow that line from the song "30 Point Buck", "There he was, gone." No one in the northern hunting camps that I've been in has used them. If you're happy with your tactics, keep doing that. Even in the big woods, I like binos so that I can focus behind brush and see what's on the other side.
"Full time night woman? I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads."
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I have a pair of Binolux 7x35 and that is all I have used for 65 years. Only problem was the diopter needed repaired a couple years back. Very clear. Others with some high end binos have looked thru them and replied WOW those are pretty good. So, I will not be needing any others besides it is getting late in the game so to speak.
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