-
Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.
Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
Search results
-
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
Just trying to help the economy. ;) -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
I agree, the Conquest line is a smoking good instrument -
-
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
I just saw this :-O We call it the dogs bollocks. -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
Noted and added to the list, thanks -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
I will definitely look it up, sounds like an interesting read. He lived in inmteresting times for sure. I just finished re-reading Dragon Hunter about Roy Chapman Andrews. There are so many good ones out there it's hard to keep up with them. -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
The Red River war helped push the bison towards it's near extinction. It pretty much emptied the commissary of the Comanche -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
By the way, dont take my reply as me thinking you judge folks on what they own. I dont, just more directed at a general conversation to make folks think before they judge. When you see someone in the field, what they carry means little, and that goes for the most expensive and for the cheapest... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
Wouldnt argue with you James, I dont think all that do buy high end do so just to show off. But it seems that there are some in this particular forum look down on anything not high end (not saying you do). I look at it somewhat like I look at people buying survival gear who will never leave... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
It's an okay binocular, not real crisp but a decent sweet spot, flare control is kind of poor and it seems eye glasses magnify it's faults on flare. It was pretty cheap, but it was pretty solid. St Arnolds is a Houston brewey. Pretty good swill, not a micro by any means but very drinkable... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
You see it in every sport and every where, I would guess it's a sign of affluence. I involved myself in a conversation at the pistol range back in to 90's between two young men. One was shooting a Ruger P-89 he was very proud of it and it was his first centerfire, the other was shooting a Glock... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
A 15 year old Bushnell natureview 8X42. They work, not crisp and sharp like a Zeiss, heck not even close to a Leupold yosemite. But they got me by as well as I wished and allowed me to start learning a few things about wildlife. -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
I wouldnt say poverty, but working class folks with 3 kids making $25 an hour dont have a lot of throw around money. I guess it really does validate that if you dont have a certain brand or style, you wont be taken seriously. It appears that birding much like fly fishing or golf is the realm of... -
-
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
Maybe that reaffirms the concept, you cant be taken seriously unless you sell a kidney to buy optics and poor people make poor birders? Something to think about. -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
I think it goes without saying that many in our first world society wish for people to judge us on what we purchase. In doing so we sometimes go to extremes. I mean when I'm standing there looking thru my swaros wearing my Barbour coat over my Pendleton shirt and moleskin pants all underneath... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
I agree with this, if 50 normal everyday type folk try something and record what they like and dont like, then chances are I will look at their dislikes when I try it out. -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
Hermann, no offense man but I would guess Europe is not the whole market Swaro is shooting for. I would be surprised if North America isnt just as large a market. I'm also not convinced birding is the largest market (I could be wrong and am willing to accept I could be wrong on both counts, I... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
Jan, I have been in 100% commission sales since 1977. I have learned it is not a slight to be asked to verify your info. Theres nothing worse than giving someone misleading info on a $75,000 order. (I have, it's no fun to realize you just lost a $7,000 dollar commission check because someone... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
Do you have some link to back up this claim that swaro sells more than Zeiss and Leica combined? I'm not trying to be a horses ass, but the claims dont seem to be backed by what little sales reports Swaro puts out. Seriously, Swaro has dumped a bucket load of money into marketing, others not... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
We do have some sayings that confuse, that may be one. I'm so used to it I never notice. -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
It was a little beast. Was the Turbo I series breathed on a little, would have been a nice little car if it had been slightly detuned in all aspects. My ex bought a 84 Daytona turbo I automatic, and it was a really enjoyable little car. Less horsepower, more weight, no rattles and more enjoyable... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
Nah, the Shelby series had big brakes and everything one off. Very little would interchange with any other Dodge of the time. Front and rear wheels were different size and had so much negative camber built in that it drove like it was on rails at high speed, and it also wore the inside of the... -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
:-O Real close, one of the Shelby Chargers :-O Bumped the boost to 15 psi and it would scream. -
Cornell Lab Review - Zeiss Did Very Well Here
I wouldnt call it pointless, it just doesnt delve in to the minutiae of specifications that I would say most dont care about. Scientific testing gives you absolutes, but absolutes dont give you a feel of how well it all works together, just gives you what the intruments tell you. All the...