Bino's, the ultimate hunting tool !!!

[MiG25]

i'd rather have a $2000 set of field glasses and $100 rifle than the other way around.

 

[Eagleye]

Respectfully disagree.
In Ontario, at least where I'm hunting, deer at close range are far too wary for the movements required by field glasses.
Movement, or the lack there of, is the key to success here, unless you are in a tree stand, or a very good blind.
If you checked the average northern Ontario hunter, hunting in thick timber, you might find glasses, maybe one in a hundred or more carry them.
Timber conditions here are different than BC, and for the most part, we have more undergrowth. Thick enough that a deer may not see you until it is feet from you, if you are still. But move, and you will never know he was there. Field glasses in general give you a close up view of the branches closest to you.
There are exceptions, but not many in my gun hunting area.
For example, this year, a dog chase, involving five dogs, and a buck passes within 50 feet of me standing on a big flat rock where I'd been walking out from my stand (where I watch a narrows between two swamps). I saw nothing at all of the chase, despite it being so close I could hear the deer's feet hit the ground. The four pointer was shot by another hunter a few hundred yards from where I'd come out on the rock.
He had cut 'shooting lanes' in the brush, and the buck ran down one of them, practically right into the guy.

Certainly your right to disagree, and no offense taken, but I respectfully counter that your brush conditions have no more undergrowth and brushy cover than does coastal BC, where it is so thick at times you cannot see 25 yards. Nevertheless, I have still used binocs to good advantage there as well. As for spooking game, it happens, and the wary whitetail is hard to fool when you are at ground level. I still believe many of the non-carriers would benefit by using binoculars from time to time. Regards, Eagleye

 

[Tundra Monkey]

I've ditched the binos for a leupold rangefinder with excellent 6x optics. It is not binocular, but the value of being able to range to the metre is very valuable. The other feature is the unit is the size of a thick pack of cigarettes, and 1/4 the weight of binos. LH

If you're relying on your rangefinder as your primary optics you're handicapping yourself IMO

I use the Leica CRF but it in no way even comes close to replacing my bino's

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