Spotting scope help
- Thread starter Jimmy_grayson
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Go to the birder sights online and read their reviews. Swarovski and kowa are top notch as is zeiss. Im currently running a nikon, mostly because i can also use it with my camera. Ive had pentax stuff in the past and was quite pleased with theirs as well. - dan
Pointdexter
CGN Regular
- Location
- Lower Mainland
I had a vortex razor 11-33x50 that was fine. Felt like a tight eyebox though.
Ive since sold that, waited a while, and ended up buying an athlon ares gs uhd 15-45×65 from jerry at mystic precision. Quite frankly its flat out amazing for what you pay and what you get. Decent size, nice controls, really sharp image/colour, and really bright because of the bigger bell end.
Its a little on the heavy side (about 3 lbs) but for under ~1k it can skulldrag the nearest competition around easily.
Ive since sold that, waited a while, and ended up buying an athlon ares gs uhd 15-45×65 from jerry at mystic precision. Quite frankly its flat out amazing for what you pay and what you get. Decent size, nice controls, really sharp image/colour, and really bright because of the bigger bell end.
Its a little on the heavy side (about 3 lbs) but for under ~1k it can skulldrag the nearest competition around easily.
Mystic Precision
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Summerland, BC
Glad to hear you are enjoying the spotter.... new gen Athlon ED glass anything is stunning views for the money spent. Spent weekend looking through all sorts of glass at a CRPS match... the show stopper was the Cronus 15X binos... wowza, that is nice glass. I have been running the 12X Ares binos and really like them
not sure if high mag binos is a good idea for hunting but these 2 sure make viewing very nice.
Jerry
will the elite not work for your task?
One of the older Bausch and Lomb 45x straight tube spotters would serve you well and the glass is fantastic for what the optic is worth. They pop up in the EE now and again for fair asking prices. Not too big and they slip into a backpack nicely without taking up much space.
i have the 15-45x60 elite and the legend t with mildot and both are great for the price you can beat them but they re not higher end optice but again works great for my tasks.
the elite is really great up to 35 perfs are going down at little at 45 but im able to see 22 holes at 100 meters.
the legend works great for holes up to 500 meters with cal .30.
I have a Celestron (makers of celestial scopes, too) Cavalry 25-75 x 70mm (no longer avail on A-zone) but you might find one on KI or EE. I can see .223 holes at 180 yds. Mine was from C-T about 6-7 years ago $75, but their scopes now are cra*.
