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are a single set of 7x42 or 8x42 Ultravids


I would, without question, pick up a pair of these over either a smaller or larger configuration (objecitve and magnification in this case).


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The last two years I have been hunting with 10x42. This year I bought a new pair of Olympus Magellan EXWP-I 10x42. I have really been impressed with them the more I've used them the better I like them.......Their not the big three, but they are GOOD for the money....


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I have "settled" for one pair of Leica 8-12x42 Leica Duovids and one pair of Minox 6.5x32 IFs. IMO, both were definitely worth the money I gave for them.


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Originally Posted by VAnimrod
If you had to pick....one set ..or two


From my point of view (o.k. opinion is steered/caused by my wide and vast hunting opportunities all over the world) I really can't understand when a serious hunter restricts himself to just one or just two sets of binos.

You don't use the same gun for open plains antelopes, small varmints, thick alder bears and upland game birds.
As well you do need different optics.

It depends on circumstances, terrain, kind of hunting, kind of animals, physical conditions
- and pocket money of course (which, in my book, is the only restriction).

I drive, since years, any manification/objective size combination that suit the specific need of the specific hunt
- 8x20 or 10x25 mono or duo for every day
- 8/10x30/32 for climbing in real heavy terrain
- 8/10x40/42 for all around use
- 7x42 for woods hunting
- 8/10/12x50/56/60 for heavy dusk/dawn/night use
- 12/13/15/20x56/60 binos with or without tripod
- lightweigt spotting scope in heavy terrain
- fullsize, highgrade big objective spotting scope
- cheap spotting scope for at the range (I hate to "share" excellent groups and my precious spotting scope with curious onlookers..)

Granted - 8 or more optical instruments per capita seems much - but please count the rifles in your safe (including the safe queens) and if you can't afford it now, you will have it later (I begun with a heavyweight 7x50 Porro)

YMMV but I would rather hunt with just one rifle and one shotgun (or one combination gun) instead of permanently missing the advantages of different but "spot on" optics.

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For me a pair of 15 year old 10X Leupie roof prisms has worked very well here in the wilds of Pennsyvania. If I were hunting out west or other areas that offer vast expances of real estate I might opt for something better.


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Roe,

Quite an impressive collection of bins. While I think you have a valuable point regarding using the bin best suited for a particular application, I think the one set of bins or two was a condition dictated by the presence of a finite budget.

So if you had to reduce your inventory to one or two bins, which would stay?


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Excellent question.




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Originally Posted by RickBin
For me, hunting out west, I've settled on a standard-sized bino (choose your poison from any of the above) for all-around work, and a 15X on a tripod for specialized work.

The ideal kit for me actually includes two tripods: one very sturdy and too heavy to pack far, and that stays within, say, 1 mile or 1000 vertical feet of the truck, roughly. The second is much lighter and portable, not as steady, and would go in a backpack.

The more I hunt (particularly mule deer) with 15X on a tripod, the more I try to hunt with 15X on a tripod.


I completely agree with Rick on this.
Last fall I hunted Desert Bighorn Sheep and a few months prior to the hunt scouting. I used my 15x56 Swarovski SLC's on a tripod about 70% of the time,I used my 10x42 EL's about 15% of the time and a spotting scope the remaining 15%. This ratio might change a bit for different species of game, but I have never had a use for a 7x bino.
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Originally Posted by Razkul99
Roe,

... dictated by the presence of a finite budget.

So if you had to reduce your inventory to one or two bins, which would stay?


one High Grade 7/8x42 plus one 20x60S (stabilized)

If I had to sell one of the two - perhaps because of an arising need of a set of new winter tires (;-)) - it was the 20x,
which leaves me the 7/8x42.


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