Hey all,
Happened upon a hawk on fresh kill today while driving. Pulled over and dug out my $40 reverse porro car binocular (resides in the glove box full time) for some better viewing. Found that the quality of view had noticeably deteriorated in sharpness from when new. Got me thinking it is time to find something better.
Wondering what binoculars you have assigned to car duty (resides full time in the vehicle)? Here, temps will range from just below 0 degree F in the worst of winter and in the upper 90 degree F outside temp in the worst of summer so maybe 140 - 160 degree F inside the car when left parked in the sun. I've stayed with less expensive and smaller binoculars for this task in case of break-in and not to take up glove box real estate.
Need to find a serious contender for this application and don't mind going larger than the current 25mm objective for ease of use and will trade off the loss of glove-box free space to accommodate ... maybe the sub $200 Sightron is a good match for this??? :-C
CG
Happened upon a hawk on fresh kill today while driving. Pulled over and dug out my $40 reverse porro car binocular (resides in the glove box full time) for some better viewing. Found that the quality of view had noticeably deteriorated in sharpness from when new. Got me thinking it is time to find something better.
Wondering what binoculars you have assigned to car duty (resides full time in the vehicle)? Here, temps will range from just below 0 degree F in the worst of winter and in the upper 90 degree F outside temp in the worst of summer so maybe 140 - 160 degree F inside the car when left parked in the sun. I've stayed with less expensive and smaller binoculars for this task in case of break-in and not to take up glove box real estate.
Need to find a serious contender for this application and don't mind going larger than the current 25mm objective for ease of use and will trade off the loss of glove-box free space to accommodate ... maybe the sub $200 Sightron is a good match for this??? :-C
CG
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