Thread: Swarovski ATC 17-40 x 56

Sold my spotting scope now missing it , curious any feed back on these little ones from Swaro

Good luck sourcing one! I'm waiting on backorder

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Good luck sourcing one! I'm waiting on backorder

Jacob's digital have them in stock

Edit: scrap that, it says they're in stocks then when you add to cart it tells you they're on backorder.

Optics-trade have them though and are good to deal with

If it makes you feel any better Lucky, I'm missing your old spotting scope too. My bloody kid pinched it and buggered off to Canada with it.
She left me her one with instructions to send it back to Swaro for a tidy up. Feel like I might have come second on the deal.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Optics-trade have them though and are good to deal with

I'm in Europe in a few weeks, could be an opportunity there. Price is reasonable too

They’re pretty neat, very compact, great glass as expected.

This is a young 12 point wapiti at 1100m taken freehand with my phone through the spotter.


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Shit I never even crossed my mind that they are not in stock …. @hotsoup yeah I reckon you will get them cheaper in Europe , retail looks like $3300 here .
Was Tahr hunting a few weeks back and thought why the hell did I sell my spotter ….

Well seems like no one has them in stock alright , not sure I want to buy them from Optics Trade out of Europe ,

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

If it makes you feel any better Lucky, I'm missing your old spotting scope too. My bloody kid pinched it and buggered off to Canada with it.
She left me her one with instructions to send it back to Swaro for a tidy up. Feel like I might have come second on the deal.

This made my day hahaha

Originally Posted by Lucky

Well seems like no one has them in stock alright , not sure I want to buy them from Optics Trade out of Europe ,

I bought ELs through them, showed up real quick too

I have had a Swaro 65 on order for a few months.

Had the privilege of trying extensively the small ATC, ok for red stags but not enough for chamois and tahr IMO. Also glassing in country with a shadow, it just doesn’t pull enough light.

I'm really impressed with my one , nice and light and considerably smaller than all the full-size models, they take up bugger all room in the pack. Theres a slight compromise at full zoom with the smaller objective lens but otherwise excellent. The biggest issue Ive found is that the swaro bright coatings seem to have a a real yellow colouring and when I use my bino/rangefinders Leica HDB's my right eye still has a yellow view and the left is considerably greyer. It's surprising how much different it is and looking through the binos and closing each eye individually really highlights it. Ive had a bloody great run out of my Leica's but are now looking to change them to the El ranges.