blacksmithden
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Ok. I had a look at a few Bushnell spotting scopes that have a 15-20 to 60X zoom. They all had the little push in rubber ring that are supposed to let you wear your glasses while viewing through the scope. This is all fine at low magnification, but, the higher I dialed up the power, the smaller the image got in the eye piece, until it was only filling about 20% of the eye piece. This is with the lens of my glasses resting on the eye piece. That sucks. If I took my glasses off, there was no problem...lots of eye relief to see the full image.
I looked through a couple of cheaper makes but had the same problem. The store was really busy that day, and I didn't want to hold the sales guy up looking at higher end spotting scopes that I have no hope of affording.
My questions:
1. Am I missing something here, or do optics makers make rifle scopes with plenty of eye relief (for obvious recoil reasons).......but cut eye relief down so much on spotting scopes that they alienate eye glass wearers????
2. If the above is the case with Bushnell/Tasco scopes, do the higher end ones have the same problem????
I looked through a couple of cheaper makes but had the same problem. The store was really busy that day, and I didn't want to hold the sales guy up looking at higher end spotting scopes that I have no hope of affording.
My questions:
1. Am I missing something here, or do optics makers make rifle scopes with plenty of eye relief (for obvious recoil reasons).......but cut eye relief down so much on spotting scopes that they alienate eye glass wearers????
2. If the above is the case with Bushnell/Tasco scopes, do the higher end ones have the same problem????
