Telescope as spotting scope??

[surfclod]

Has anyone ever used a telescope designed for stargazing as a spotting scope??

Was in a pawnshop the other day and surprised at the prices of decent optical and refractory telescopes.

I can't afford a really nice spotting scope but I want to be able to spot my bullet holes at beyond 200 yards. On a good day, if I use Shoot-N-C (or like) targets, I can see the little .204 cal holes at 200 meters with my Leupold scope cranked up to 18 power but that doesn't always work.

Just want to know if a celestial telescope is feasible or not for this usage.

 

[sunray]

You'll find a spotting scope in a pawn shop sooner or later. Not likely a high end one though. Don't know about star gazing telescopes. Something tells me they'd have too much magnification. Or too much field of view.

 

[Fassteel]

Has anyone ever used a telescope designed for stargazing as a spotting scope??

Was in a pawnshop the other day and surprised at the prices of decent optical and refractory telescopes.

I can't afford a really nice spotting scope but I want to be able to spot my bullet holes at beyond 200 yards. On a good day, if I use Shoot-N-C (or like) targets, I can see the little .204 cal holes at 200 meters with my Leupold scope cranked up to 18 power but that doesn't always work.

Just want to know if a celestial telescope is feasible or not for this usage.

Yup you can use it. Image will likely be upside down. If the tele has interchangable 1.25" eye pieces you can buy cheap eye pieces to have the magnification where you desire it. With tele's the higher the eye piece number , the lower the magnification. A 25mm eye piece will give you less magnif than a 10mm will. To determine the power you divide the eye piece power into the focal length of the tele, so if the scope is 800mm focal length and the eye piece you have is 25mm, this gives you 32 power. FS