Long range hunting- 10x vs 12x binos

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Hey guys,

I just got a good deal on some meopta 12x50’s Meostar HD’s I’m pretty f ing pumped.

I use 10x bino’s normally, however a large portion of my time hunting is actually long range spotting of mulies in BC.. so my question is what are your thoughts on 10 vs 12 power bino’s? For applications like sheep hunting/ long range mulie spotting/alpine hunting

I don’t use a tripod to spot just my elbows
I don’t really care about size/weight
Often glass for 5+ hours a day

I am worried about image shake, however it’s extremly hard to find meopta’s here in Canada, and I’m wondering if since the glass is supposed to be near alpha if I have walked into the ultimate long range spotting bino’s

Looking for all input testimonies and drawbacks to higher power bino’s. My options would be to keep the pair for long range days (and run Bushnell legend ultra 10x42’s for close stuff)

Or trade for some 10x42’s, (probably razors as I don’t want to drop more and meo’s are hard to find) and be a one Bino kind of guy

Thanks
 
I use bino's a lot but limited to 7-8X as I've tried 10's but find them difficult to hold offhand. I don't really use them much for long range so perhaps my opinion is worthless. I've read a lot about the quality of Meopta's so you have a nice toy. As far as using a 12X, I'd suggest you at least TRY using a Tri-Bi-Mono- Pod while sitting if you find the image is shaky. Even something as simple as an adjustable pole with a flat "T" on top so the bino has a "stable-table".
 
Yeah. They are heavy! Bit of a development in this story!!

I was cleaning the lenses and noticed that the left Object is actually Cracked! F@&&! F@$!& Fljbjk !

I’m sort of laughing at myself. The crack is tiny and just runs along the very outside of the glass. It’s what I get for a Craigslist deal I guess. The funny part is that not only didn’t I notice it when buying them, is that they seem to work like 10/10. And I mean flawlessly, no matter what I do I can’t tell that there is anything wrong, they are clear as could be, focus to a T and yeah. If there is some misalignment I sure can’t tell.

So the plot has thickened for sure. I did some research and only read good reviews on meopta service, and based on what I have heard about Swaro was not super upset as I thought I could get the one lens replaced for relatively cheap.

Well no such luck there either, as I was told it was 4-500 USD to replace a lens. But I was told that they are so robust that sometimes they break it chip lenses and there is no notable effect of preformance, so to just run them as is until another impact worsens the damage.

Well #### eh? Just when you thought you hit gold. But maybe I did as they still seem to work flawlessly? ( and holy crap. These things are a joy to look through...)

Is there any way to have someone check the lens alignment without having them shipped to meopta? (which would a U.S.A. send) Perhaps a non brand associated optic repair guy? Just to see if anything is amiss?

Cheers
 
there are a handful of repair places in Vancouver...google search will find them for you

can't remember who I used, but they were somewhere in Kits, right on broadway, or 8th maybe
 
If you are glassing for that long, get a tripod. London Drugs offers a nice Manfrotto unit that doesn't weigh much and works very nicely - can get low enough to be used seated. Binos are only as good as the support you give them.

I would be concerned about fogging. Easy enough to test this time of year.

otherwise, if there are no problems with the image, I would put that extra money towards a tripod.

Jerry
 
If they work well then they work well, no sense in crying over something you can't see. Fogging, well that's a different problem. As for mis-alignment, if you can look through them for at least 1-2 mins and your eyes don't feel strain I'd say they're good to go. I can tell if a bino has a "collimation" (?) problem after about 30-45 sec's. When I lower the bino's my eyes can't focus properly for a minute. I'd say it's quite easy to tell if they're out of alignment just by spending some time glassing.
 
Right Arm. Well seems like im going to have to switch up my glassing game a little bit. Ive never tried of a trpod, usually trecking/intermittent spotting in open landscapes. But seems like ill have to give this whole tripod glassing a go and do some research on bino system mounts
 
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...219-Do-you-use-a-high-end-tripod-for-glassing

Never seen this tripod so can't say but the pictures will show you how it is set up. Very simple and you have a post with the threaded knob that screws into the middle part of your bino.

Done.

Now you can move the binos like a spotting scope. So much more stable and once you get rid of that little tremble.. image quality goes up.

You will like it... try and borrow someones tripod and see if it is what you want before investing. Go into a camera shop and see if they will let you demo a tripod.

Then you will see the point of investing some money into a unit that fits your needs. People don't invest many hundreds if not thousands in something that doesn't up their game.

Jerry
 
In open country glassing I would be tempted to carry a set of 15x binos to really tear up the countryside. Then switch to a spotter to do close examination once you've spotted something. If you had the same interchangeable shoe for your tripod then you could switch back and forth from binos to spotter pretty painlessly. I've got a buddy that used to guide for caribou that carried 15x Swarovskis to save on bootleather.
 
BigUglyMan said:
In open country glassing I would be tempted to carry a set of 15x binos to really tear up the countryside. Then switch to a spotter to do close examination once you've spotted something. If you had the same interchangeable shoe for your tripod then you could switch back and forth from binos to spotter pretty painlessly. I've got a buddy that used to guide for caribou that carried 15x Swarovskis to save on bootleather.
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A friend is a really serious sheep hunter and he carries both 10x and 15x.
Personally, I used 8x for many years---now I use 10x but I don't use binocs like I did in my younger days.
High quality binocs are a must if you use them for hours on end.
Bill
 
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