Bino's, the ultimate hunting tool !!!

Depends on where you hunt.
When we are doing pushes with dogs, in an area where 50 yard shots are the norm, binoculars are pretty much dead weight.
When I'm bow hunting, or field hunting that's another matter. Glassing the fields from the tree stand fills the time, and sometimes gives you the info you need to bag that buck. For example you can tell if he hears your call, and see the line he chooses for his approach.
 
Yup Binos are right up there for me too. I just find it too exhausting trying to kill an animal with mine ;) so my rifle is my top pick for my ultimate hunting tool. Binos are probably second in line though...
 
It's amazing what you miss seeing without bino's. Yesterday I saw a dark speck in the snow several hundred yards across the field along my fence line. I dug out the bino's and the speck materialized into a muley doe's head. I moved into a better position and now the bino's revealed a small racked 4x4 buck bedded a few yards away from the doe. Without the bino's, they would have gone unnoticed.
 
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I take them with me and use them. Sometimes I spot movement first with my naked eye, then check it out better with the bino's. But I have spotted deer first with the bino's too.
 
a couple weeks ago that "squirrel" i saw about 60 yards away in some thick bush wouldnt have turned into a mature doe if i didnt have those vortex crossfire 10x42's;)


i didnt start using bino's until this year, but now i dont go hunting without them...
 
John Y Cannuck said:
Depends on where you hunt.
When we are doing pushes with dogs, in an area where 50 yard shots are the norm, binoculars are pretty much dead weight.
When I'm bow hunting, or field hunting that's another matter. Glassing the fields from the tree stand fills the time, and sometimes gives you the info you need to bag that buck. For example you can tell if he hears your call, and see the line he chooses for his approach.
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More like how, picture youself in the damp woods , sneaking along in low light, scanning the cover at 30-50 meters for an ear, or a tail of a whitetail bedded down, lots of fun, not only for open country eh?;)
 
I use them all the time. I hunt hardwoods that border swamp and you can look a long way through the cedars a crap for movement.
 
I've spent hours watching all kinds of wildlife sitting on a watch or in a stand waiting for deer or moose. Great way to stay entertained and learn a thing or two about other creatures in the bush.

I'd be lost without them.
 
I don't leave home without them. Binos for me are as much a life saving tool as is my rifle. When we are walking, it is very useful to know for sure if that chuck of limestone up ahead is limestone or a bear, is that snow in the willows or a bear, is that silhouette in the grass a round rock or a bear, etc, etc.
 
I use them all the time, but I usually am hunting the wide open prairie or in the mountains. A few years ago I spoiled myself with a pair of Leica binocs, one of the best investments I've made.
 
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