Spotting scope, straight or angled eyepiece?

[Brutus]

Okay all you full-bore and F-Class shooter, I need your advice.

It's a given some of you know, that I wish to get into TR/Palma style shooting. And I thank you for more advice in advance.
I am going to purchase a good spotting scope (Kowa?), and cannot decide
for the life of me, to get and angled eyepiece variant or a straight through style of eyepiece.
In my limited experience I found the angled variant, less straining on the neck, but I see alot of dedicated shooters utilizing the straight version??

So...any words to the wise?

Cheers
Oops wrong forum...

 

[maynard]

You answered your own question, the angled scopes are allot easier on the neck. If you get into a 2&15 round match with a slow shooter or two, add a tired marker, some quick changing winds and a 45 min relay will seem like 2 hours. You spend about 15 seconds doing paperwork(scorebook and plotting) between shots, the remainder of the time you are shooting or looking through your spotting scope. Your eye peice needs to be close enough that you can have a quick peek before you shoot just to make sure nothing has changed. The angled eye piece allows you to get the scope closer to you, so you do not have the break your position.

 

[scout]

+1 on maynard - only issue that might benefit the straight optics is if you want to use it with an adapter on a digital camera. I use an angled eye piece Kowa on the range, a straight Bushell out of the window of the truck ...

 

[Brutus]

You answered your own question, the angled scopes are allot easier on the neck. The angled eye piece allows you to get the scope closer to you, so you do not have the break your position.

Thanks Maynard, that is what I needed to hear....
Cheers