Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Bino straps - what are you using?

I think Del Norte is out of business. I called this morning and phone number has been disconected.

I am just using the strap that comes with binoculars.

Take a look at the leather bino strap that is sold by the folks that sell Long Grass shooting sticks. You wear it diagonally across one shoulder and chest and the binos ride just above the left hip. Sounds bad but works good. When you need the binos, you just pull them up and the strap slides around your body to allow them to come to your eyes.

The old crooked horn bino buddys do the trick for me. There may be a better set up but I havent needed to try anything else.

Got my harness from 'Eagle Optics" about four years ago. $19.00. Wouldn't be without it in the field. Tom

I have tried them all..Around the neck will tire you out, give you a sore neck and all manor of problems, not to mention they don't stay stationary in all positions..The Harness is just that, a harness and I fell like a hog to be slaughter..

What I do like is the so called "African carry" and I make my own straps out of 1.5 or 2 inch webbing..You sling the binocs under your left arm pit just above the waist. You can move them to any position on your body like on the chest by simply sliding them there or on your back or wherever the situation calls for and they will stay there even under harsh conditions. You never tire of them and in fact you never know they are there..

Those African PHs live with their binocs day in and day out for 9 months of the year, they have it figured out. I can't imagine packing them any other way.

Holy Smokes my Optics Belt showed up yesterday in the mail. No invoice or packing slip included in the shipment. They never did respond to any of my e-mails.

Oh well, I kind've like the product.