Thread: Glassing tips

Originally Posted by Gibo

Cheers Josh.
Will need to take to the Kaimais and Pap hills with a saw so I can use my bino's more

Don't bother glassing Gibo. Drink it from the bottle. Go the mighty king of beers WAIKATO. Damn I can slip a reference to WAIKATO into any thread. What a resilient and flexible beer it is. Ha ha ha ha

Originally Posted by lucas

Hi there just would like to ask any hints or tips on glassing!
Whenever im glassing open country, untill i see an animal im never sure what size thing im looking for! As silly as it sounds what are your guys tips on using other objects for scale? This is especially for longer distances.
Cheers Lucas

Good question

Trying my luck on sika at the end if tge month anyone have any tips fir glassing them in comparison to reds/fallow?

Originally Posted by scoped

Trying my luck on sika at the end if tge month anyone have any tips fir glassing them in comparison to reds/fallow?

Look anywhere there is Tute. Like, here:



You can see their summer coat colour at the bottom of the shingle (a deaded one)

And there’s one by the tree here. Evening, glass around these sorts of fringes:

Nice photos, thats what I mean about color, their coats make them stand out like becons compared to everything else.

I shot a good sized Fallow buck down south that was smashing its antlers in some bushes, from where I was the antlers like Toitoi flowers waving around in the wind because of the antler color, what gave it away was there was no Toitoi anywhere else, bino inspection showed a large set of Buck antlers poking up, thats all I could see of him. Sometimes its the little things that make you think "something aint right with that picture"

When glassing I tend to check out spots close first then work my way out then when I have covered all ground then I start a bit of a pattern so I cover all areas regularly looking for coulor, movement, and out of place solid shapes and things

Yes Hamish. That's the thing. You are looking for everything. Asnd as you see less, you gotta look for more.
I remember many years ago, Cooch said to me "I can see one". "Where", I sad. "In the leatherwood up that gutter, I saw an ear flick".
That's all he saw.. It was maybe 500 yards away.

is this turning in to another thread about Shitty Waikato

Originally Posted by Dynastar27

is this turning in to another thread about Shitty Waikato

Mate I am going to make it my mission in life to convert you

Originally Posted by Rushy

Mate I am going to make it my mission in life to convert you

Aunty Huia......Over.


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I've found, through my limited experience, that every few minutes you need to put the binos down and look over your shoulder. If there is nothing behind you pick up the binos and continue to glass. This gives your eyes a bit of a break from the binos but more importantly when you are glassing the neighbours dear you can see if your Mrs is sneaking up behind you!

Has anyone tried the Bushnell Trophy XLT 8x32 Binoculars? Was looking at getting some. Most reviews are quite good. Your thoughts?
Thanks

Or the Bushnell Legend, 10x42's, opinions....?

Movement is a key thing especially when looking for tahr and chamois. Deer stand out like dogs balls. They have a much more obvious silhouette and the colour is very obvious usually. Tahr and chamois blend in extremely well, first time you go tahr hunting you will probably see 100 Rock tahr. I was looking at one on the weekend at about 500m he was sitting down, didn't move a muscle for about 20mins then all of a sudden the rock stood up.... Usually if you are 2nd guessing whether it is an animal or rock it's probably a rock...

Good binos certainly help, not necessarily with spotting more animals but you can look for a hell of a lot longer as they don't strain the eyes. Good binos might be the difference between seeing 20 tahr instead of 15 so if you are in a shitty spot that holds fark all animals you might see none with crap binos but pick up one or two with high end binos which equals a feed!