AusVarmint

was wondering what kind and magnification binos does everybody use for spotting game and double checking what your firing at , at night while lamping . PERSONALY I USE sworovski 7 x 40 find there prety tops for getting an extra 20 miniutes on either dawn and dusk ,, what do you subscribe to ??

I am biased - Vortex of course

10x42 Vortex Vipers for hunting


8x42 Stokes DLS for Archery comp and general use

A very good friend of mine has loaned me a pair of reasonably new Nikon Action 10 x 50 for deer hunting and they are unbelievably crystal clear.

Excellent for bunny busting at long ranges.

I have four Leupold's scopes and none are as clear as the Nikon bino's.

Regards,
Lindsay.

Interesting posts; I hope to go bino hunting when the bank account recovers...

i use a set of eschenbach's 8x that look similar to these



very clear and quite light- quality euro glass

later
p

Ogre is that a hard way of spelling "Steiner".

Nikon 8 x 25 travelite binos. Clear optics, lightweight & compact and at a reasonable cost.
Swarovskis etc are out of my price range, though I don't doubt they are very good.

CB

Robbo wrote:Ogre is that a hard way of spelling "Steiner".

nope its just that the steiner pic of my sort of bino was easier to find

they look the same just made in different german factories

Later
p

I am not a deer guy so my needs might be different - I varmint a lot morning and evening.

I am curretnly using 8X30 steiner nighthawks (a special low light version) with my Leica's 8X30 (too expensive to drag through dirt)and steiner 10X26 (crap in low light) compacts reclining at home.

They do me well enough and I like not having to focus them which allow me easy one handed use for frequent scans. I sling them cross ways over my shoulder left arm - pull them forward to look, then slide them around onto my back for crawling, lying down to take shots off the bipod

Swarovski 10x32......great for looking at the grid girls, sorry, the cars, at the Clipsal 500.

Not bad in the bush either.

Stiener 8 x 30's with the auto focus.

Just fantastic.

Used to have a set of 10x50 Nikon's for hunting tahr in NZ. Changed to 8x30 Ziess. Like chalk and cheese.Carry them all day suspended around your neck and the big Nikons get very heavy. The peformance of the smaller Zeiss in the difficult light conditions experienced in the NZ mountains was incredible.They outperformed the Nikons by a country mile.
RobH

Robin

Which Zeiss - the conquest or the DT?

Ziess 10X30 for me . I use them for all my hunting from deer to varmint

Davyd
They are 8x30 B/GA T*P*
The peformance in difficult light conditions is incredible. In NZ i was finding animals when my mates with big quality 10x binos where left grasping at zilt. They are armour plated and stood up to the hammering
i gave them. You don't need big manification - you need quality.
RobH