when glassing, what do you find more useful?

MD said:
I'm not trying to be jerk by saying that. I usually spot something first, then use the binoculars to positively identify it. It just works that way for me. I rarely ever actually spot something using glass. Just don't have that talent I guess.
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Just curious, what do you use for bino's? I was in the same boat (spot with naked eye, glass for details) right up until I bought my first pair of Vortex'es - and wow, turns out there's deer all over them hills that I never in a million years would have picked up with the naked eye!!! Glass quality makes a big difference, IMO.
 
In open country, if you are using your eyes to locate game and only using your binoculars to confirm or size up game, I think you are missing 3/4 of the animals that are present. Learning to use binoculars and using good ones to do your searching is a skill that casual hunters often dismiss, but I have learned to appreciate! I think mountain hunters do it best because it is so darned hard to climb mountains in search of game. The same benefits to searching with binoculars apply in flat land, but flatlanders seem to think that they can walk or drive up to all game and don't need to "glass" efficiently. Use good optics in a planned and systematic way, and your big game hunting success will increase accordingly.
 
Longwalker said:
In open country, if you are using your eyes to locate game and only using your binoculars to confirm or size up game, I think you are missing 3/4 of the animals that are present. Learning to use binoculars and using good ones to do your searching is a skill that casual hunters often dismiss, but I have learned to appreciate! I think mountain hunters do it best because it is so darned hard to climb mountains in search of game. The same benefits to searching with binoculars apply in flat land, but flatlanders seem to think that they can walk or drive up to all game and don't need to "glass" efficiently. Use good optics in a planned and systematic way, and your big game hunting success will increase accordingly.
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Totally agree, we'll spot elk over a mile away with binos, virtually invisible to the naked eye. Once spotted, out comes the spotting scope to count points and or judge size. Trying to glass a mountainside with a scope would take much longer. Correctly used binos will cover a mountainside in minutes.

Referring to the OP's original question. Clarity and brightness win the day for me in this situation, and field of view is appreciated, but once you walk into the timber and start glassing through blowdown and undergrowth, then depth of field is nice, but you still need bright and clear. You can overcome depth of field by using focus, you can overcome field of view by systematically scanning, but you always need bright clear glass.

Two more cents:)
 
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