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[ceasar]

The guy made his living using them. I'm sure they were serviced a number of times over the years. (which, comparatively speaking, was probably easy to do.) You would have to hunt 200 days a year for 30 years to get binoculars to look like this. I wonder if any of the new ones we have now could stand up to this type of usage and still be useful.
Bob

 

[John Dracon]

Bob - I read that article by Wieland too and tend to agree with him about the 8x30 meeting most hunter's needs. The most beat up 8x30 I ever seen was Kern IF. It looked like it has been dragged behind a pickup truck over a gravel road. A few chips on the objectives, a bad scratches on the oculars. Yet it was in good collimation and very usable. But unsightly. My experience is that with older binoculars, the IF models handle abuse better. The Zeiss IF Safari 8x30 is IMO the champion all-weather, drag anywhere binocular. But it is marginal as a birding binocular. I have seen hundreds of the old Bushnell Custom models in 7x35, 8x36, 9x36, and 10x50 over the years, and rarely is there anything optically wrong with them. A bit heavy, particularly the 10x50, but very usable for birding and with UV filters good over water, snow, etc. John

 

[dafi]

So which model does this hunting forum recomend for improving your chances of shooting wild birds? :C:C:C

 

[ceasar]

So which model does this hunting forum recomend for improving your chances of shooting wild birds? :C:C:C

Dafi,
Nobody uses binoculars for hunting pheasants, grouse, quail, woodcock and other game birds AFAIK but you will have to check a hunting forum to be sure.

Do they still use Cocker Spaniels to find European Woodcock and then throw nets over them?
Bob

 

[dafi]

Dont know Bob...but then again i dont engage in killing woodcock for fun!

 

[ceasar]

Dont know Bob...but then again i dont engage in killing woodcock for fun!

I can understand that.
Bob