Bambistew
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What happens when you look through them backwards?
Saves me the step of backing up to make my longest kill shot.
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What happens when you look through them backwards?
Saves me the step of backing up to make my longest kill shot.
I don't have bino's worth carrying. That said, I still don't point my rifle at anything I don't plan to kill. Since I mostly hunt with a bow out of tree stands I haven't felt the need to get good glass. Now that I am planning an elk hunt, I am looking for a decent pair of bino's. Unfortunately I don't have the budget at this time for a good pair. Thinking about some entry level Vortex bino's.
You would probably be amazed at what you can see in timber at close range with binoculars. mtmuley
east coast hunter, never had the need for binos (even if you CAN'T believe it and i was missing every last chipmunk that walked under a lot 50 yards away) but now PA has antler restrictions so need to distinguish legal vs illegal buck. Last year I had one that I just couldn't make out the brow tine one side, through a scope (debate all you want, safety was on and if rifle discharged it woudln't be the absolute end of the world just a mistake with no human injury except to my ego so I felt it was an acceptable thing to check this fellow out through the rifle scope)
my question: will binos even of the general same power as the scope allow you to see better detail because of the larger field of view? assuming the bino glass is of equal or better quality than the scope, or should I really step up a magnification or two in the bino department?
I personally think they will help even at equivalent magnifications.
I am 38 years old and I have been hunting for 26 years and I can honestly say I have never put my gun up on someone else while I was hunting. I am not hunting big areas I can see pretty dam good.
Come hunt WI rifle season. You will not see a single person with a pair of bino's while hunting. In the 26 years of hunting WI rifle season I have never seen a person out in the woods not deer hunting and not wearing orange. I wouldn't leave my truck to piss without orange on during WI rifle season at a gas station in town.
In Iowa I hunt early muzzy season. There isn't a lot of people out in the woods at the time. Also I am hunting small tracts where I cannot see very far. Under 100 yards I can tell if there is a person or a deer standing there.
To the OP. All questions of firearms safety aside, you will be amazed at how much more you will see with binoculars. Once I started carrying binoculars I became much more dedicated to checking out everything that I couldn't completely identify in the woods. I can't tell you how many times that odd looking patch of brown that caught my eye turned out to be a deer or an elk once I looked at it through binoculars. Previously, I would have just walked closer to identify it and would have almost certainly spooked the animal.
Successful hunting is as much about seeing the animal before it sees you as anything. Being able to identify what you are looking at and getting prepared for a shot before any animal clears thick brush is invaluable, probably even more so in the thick brush back east as in more open country out west.
The guys making comments about always taking binoculars even if they forget their rifle are only halfway joking. Binoculars are the one thing in my pack that I always double and triple confirm are there before I leave the truck.