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"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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Same ones I have used for 20 years, or whenever they first came out.
Leica 10x42 Geovid BRF. Alaska to Florida, Canada and Africa.
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My old Leupold Katmai 8x32’s.
Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.
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My old Leupold Katmai 8x32’s. I liked mine. Sold them to try something different. SHouldnt have. Have since replaced, but the katmais are great form factor/easy on the eyes etc. Maybe on paper or side by side tests they arent top shelf, but in the real world they were grabbed most times.
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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Hunt...
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Tract Toric 8x42HD, whether in a stand or walking. I always have these.
Though I would like to find a better strap than what they came with.
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Older pair of Bushnell Legend 8x42 I use some of those, or some Bushnell 10x50s. Where and how I hunt, it doesn't matter much. Open farm country doesn't require alpha glass.
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Swaro 12x42 nl pure. They are amazing and worth the money. If you do a ton of glassing nothing beats them. Super super bright and no eye strain or tiredness after hours of glassing.
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Swarovski 8x30SLC and 8.5x42 EL. The 8x30 when climbing trees, the 8.5 when on the ground. The 8x30s were purchased in 1998 and sent back for refurbishment around ten years later, I was going to sell them when I get the ELs but they came base from Swaro like new and I couldn't part with them. Glad I didn't they are much lighter and more compact than the ELs.
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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 eyes aren't what they used to be, my 8x30s are easy to view and don't require much movement, I want to know if that flicker I saw was a squirrel's tail or a ear from a deer. Don't ever like to pick up my rifle (lot's of movement, not to mention pointing it at an unknown object) when my binos are close by.
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I usually pack 8x32 Meopta's in a pocket when on the move in the woods, cause even while tracking or still hunting, there is stuff I wanna see or look at. Maybe not entirely needed in the NE, they don't hurt and they don't take up much room. If I know I am taking up a stand, I have Swaro 7x42's which are amazing in the woods.
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Zeiss Victory 8x25. They have displaced all my 30-32 class bino’s. Takes a bit more of an experienced user because of their size, but they are exceptional.
Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
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Swar 10x42 ELs for out west, 10x50 SLCs for box stand hunting
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7x42 Meopta Meostar. Excellent glass and I get full field of view while wearing my glasses. Not the lightest binos around, but they are better to my eyes than my 8x42 Vortex Razors. I purchased them a few years ago from Camerlandny.com.
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Swarovski EL 8.5x42. Same binoculars for about 20 years now.
You only live once, but...if you do it right, once is enough.
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Same for over twenty years now. Swarovski SLC 7x42. As a glass's wearer, these have been a godsend, allowing a full field of view while wearing my prescription glasses.
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8x30 Steiner for 20+ years. Steiner rebuilt the eye cups for me last summer. No charge.
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SLC 8x42's & a STC for longer looks, hard to imagine anything much better.
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