Thread: What Binoculars are you using?

Buy once cry once - Swaro 8 x 32 EL's, awesome binos & will do everything you need & want

Originally Posted by Philipo

Buy once cry once - Swaro 8 x 32 EL's, awesome binos & will do everything you need & want

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I used 10x for years guiding until I looked through Phil's 8x binos I would never go back, tops or Bush makes no difference ya just find way more animals.

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Originally Posted by BRADS

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I used 10x for years guiding until I looked through Phil's 8x binos I would never go back, tops or Bush makes no difference ya just find way more animals.

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Excuse my ignorance, but how do you find more animals with 8x over 10x? @BRADS

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Excuse my ignorance, but how do you find more animals with 8x over 10x? @BRADS

I reckon it comes down to field of veiw mate but really no idea
We did some testing on the tops a couple of years ago with @Philipo and other 3 hunters
8x 10x and 15x all el Swarovski
We all found more animals with the 8x binos than the others even at over 1500 yards where the 15x should of shined.
Probably a personal thing like brands as much as anything but I'd never go back to 10x myself

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Originally Posted by hotsoup

Excuse my ignorance, but how do you find more animals with 8x over 10x? @BRADS

Maybe you take them more often because they are lighter and less bulky. If I were buying again 8x30 instead of 10x42s all the way

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Excuse my ignorance, but how do you find more animals with 8x over 10x? @BRADS

I think that argument is a personal thing too depending on how YOU like to glass, I personally cant stand using 8's, feel like I'm too used to 10's and I get really bad eyestrain trying to compensate for less magnification, it's not like you're going to miss an animal using 10's that someone would pick up using 8's, you're still going to cover the exact same ground with them, in saying that I wouldn't go much higher mag than 10x as when you start searching for animals at over 2000yds holding them still starts to become a challenge. Watch some of those american blokes hunting elk and Mule deer and they will use binos just to get a feel for the lay of the land then sit down with a 60x or even 80x spotting scope and spend hours picking the whole landscape apart looking into every little book and cranny and shadow and its pays off for them. Another thing I have picked up from YouTube etc is running your binos on a tripod - amazing the difference a real steady rest makes, you can glass all day no worries