Re: Binos or Spotting Scope
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Originally Posted by
HighCountryBC
Plenty of quality used optics for a good price available if a guy looks around..
Define good price?
$1500 for used swaro SLC is really not a good price. But that's what people seem to want for them around here.
I'm aware of how to look around. I have $1600 binos I bought as an open box item on Ebay for $900.
Show me all this Alpha glass for a good price you have found
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Swaro, Leica and Zeiss pop up all the time on bird watching forums and other hunting sites. There's more than HBC out there kid. Hunting partner and I both picked up top of the line spotters in mint condition for half of what they are new.
Re: Binos or Spotting Scope
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Originally Posted by
twoSevenO
Define good price?
$1500 for used swaro SLC is really not a good price. But that's what people seem to want for them around here.
I'm aware of how to look around. I have $1600 binos I bought as an open box item on Ebay for $900.
Show me all this Alpha glass for a good price you have found
270 there’s the odd deal floating around but it’s not like a daily occurrence of course not, but if your patient and diligent you can find a good deal now and again, I picked up a mint set of 10x42 Leica Trinovids for $600 from a guy in Nanaimo, my son uses them.
I bought my Leica APO 25-50x65 angled spotting with the eyepiece on EBay.ca for 2120.00 cdn
yeh you have to be patient for sure !
Re: Binos or Spotting Scope
Going to bring this thread up again . Okay so you fellas that do backpack hunting do you carry binoculars and a spotting scope ? If so is your spotting scope one of those that is compact ? If not how much does your full size or compact spotting scope weigh ? What is better angled eye piece or straight ?
Thanks
Arctic Lake
Re: Binos or Spotting Scope
Binos for sure, 10x42 or 8's... Depending on how far your line of sight generally is.
Re: Binos or Spotting Scope
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Originally Posted by
HankBC
Binos for sure, 10x42 or 8's... Depending on how far your line of sight generally is.
Have the 8x42's
Arctic Lake
Re: Binos or Spotting Scope
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Originally Posted by
Arctic Lake
Going to bring this thread up again . Okay so you fellas that do backpack hunting do you carry binoculars and a spotting scope ? If so is your spotting scope one of those that is compact ? If not how much does your full size or compact spotting scope weigh ? What is better angled eye piece or straight ?
Thanks
Arctic Lake
Just bringing this up again . I have 8x42 Meopta binos now and they are great ! But now asking about a spotting scope it will be used for the range, birding, and hunting .
Arctic Lake
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So do most of you fellas use compact spotting scopes to do range work and also hunting ?
Arctic Lake
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Fellas I would appreciate more feed back
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Arctic Lake
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Buy 15-45x65 type spotting scope, it’s compact enough to back pack and use at the range, it’s a good compromise for size weight and power,
the small ones 11-33x50 are ok at the range but lack power in the field.
Vortex Razor HD 16-48x65 is an affordable option if you don’t want to go with Zeiss Leica Swarovski