Whats up everyone, what are your preferences for this topic? A spotting scope or high power binos? Gonna be using them for my everyday long distance shooting but also a pronghorn trip im planning next summer. I believe that the binos would be more valuable in a wider variety of situations but I want to hear some other ideas!
Quality binoculars for sure get the nod over a spotting scope for most applications. If scoreing a goat is important to then spotting scope is invaluable for that. The difference between a 75 and 80 goat is fractions of inches for each measurement.
I dont care about a record goat I merely wanna get into bow range of a pronghorn that would make the trip a success for me. I have a set of Vortex 10x42's already for 3D, what magnification power do you think would suffice? I would assume I will be looking for hundreds of yards if not further for pronghorn across the open land
What do you have for rangefinding? I went on an archery antelope hunt last year and my Leupoldo 10x42’s were fine because I only needed general sex and size recognition. I had a separate Leupold rangefinder as well. However, the guides used rangefinding 10x or 12x bino’s about 90% of the time. They’d throw up the spotter for anything more then 1000 yards. I’d probably go binoculars. If you’re going with a buddy, probably add a spotter as well. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
When hunting I use my binos the majority of the time. When I am scouting it is probably 50/50. If I had to pick just one it would be a good pair of Binoculars. Here is one for you. For years I used 12 power binos. About three years ago went to a 10 power. I could see a lot better. A lot of that has to do with getting older and not being able to be steady enough. I have a good friend that uses a bi-pod for his higher power binoculars. It work great.
Binos are definitely way more useful, but a good spotting scope, such as the Vortex Diamondback or Burris Signature is going to probably offer more on long glassing sessions from a stationary position.
