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Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days

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Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard

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Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the Distance. Welcome back to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I hope everybody had a great holiday weekend. Last week

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Speaker 1: on the podcast, I answered a few listener questions, but

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Speaker 1: this week I want to help you prepare for any

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Speaker 1: upcoming hunt and dive into some gear talk while simultaneously

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Speaker 1: answering the question that I get a lot, and that

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Speaker 1: question is what type of optics do I need? If

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Speaker 1: I had to pick one piece of hunting gear that

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Speaker 1: has really enhanced hunter success probably more than anything, I'd

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Speaker 1: have to go with optics, or at least the advancement

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Speaker 1: in optics, because optics play a huge factor and a

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Speaker 1: big difference in the outcome of the hunt. Someone who

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Speaker 1: is good at spotting game has a lot better chance

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Speaker 1: of getting into range and punching a tag. But there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of different choices on the market and

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Speaker 1: it seems endless with the possibilities. So this week I'm

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Speaker 1: going to break down the optics category and go over

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Speaker 1: the uses and importance of different features that will help

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Speaker 1: you match what you need with your hunting style. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna cover everything from binoculars, spotting scopes, high magnification binos,

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Speaker 1: range finders, range finding binoculars, and rifle scopes. But before

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Speaker 1: we do that, I want to share a story of

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Speaker 1: one of the bigger bulls I've taken and how optics

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Speaker 1: and a few seconds made all the difference. The story

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Speaker 1: takes place in eastern Nevada and is actually one of

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Speaker 1: my first elk tags in the state. Took me a

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Speaker 1: while to draw and I was really excited about Taggers

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Speaker 1: Rifle elk tag, but unfortunately I only had a very

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Speaker 1: limited time to hunt the tag because I was committed

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Speaker 1: to guiding hunters in Montana through the end of the season,

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Speaker 1: which was pretty much Thanksgiving, and then had a few

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Speaker 1: uh to hunt for myself. So my plan was I

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Speaker 1: actually tagged my guys out a little bit early and

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Speaker 1: Dad had that tag maybe probably four years earlier, and

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Speaker 1: I had actually never even hunted the area. This was

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Speaker 1: the way before there was a lot of online map

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Speaker 1: and then we were gonna go out and start glassing.

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Speaker 1: So make it down there, drive all day, get set

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Speaker 1: up first morning that I can hunt. We're kind of

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Speaker 1: I'd say we're probably five miles from where we were looking.

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Speaker 1: We actually we're near the trucks. We set up like

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Speaker 1: gritting the areas where we thought we'd find olk. Not

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Speaker 1: So we're glassing and I end up seeing a couple

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Speaker 1: I'm like talking about spotting cows and my parents are

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Speaker 1: I got some milk over here, and my mom's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: My mom loves to go. She's always like gone out

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Speaker 1: So I start working into that spot. Everything feels good.

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Speaker 1: And so I get over and I start creeping up.

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Speaker 1: I start working my way over there. I'm above where

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Speaker 1: and then I hear just rocks rolling. I'm like, oh crap.

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Speaker 1: So he definitely spooped. I run as fast as I

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Speaker 1: sure enough, there's that bull boogie in across the hillside.

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Speaker 1: But it's a scree slope which is just a bunch

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Speaker 1: and that's where the bull decides to take his exit.

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Speaker 1: Like okay, well, I pulled up my binoculars. I had

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Speaker 1: it's probably all my legs. It's so steep. I'm kind

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Speaker 1: Swing just past the bull, and I've got a twenty

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Speaker 1: just tumbling down the mountain stone dead, perfect shot, high shoulder.

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Speaker 1: was just awesome. But it was one of those hunts

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Speaker 1: shot super efficiently, super fast, and everything ended up working out,

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Speaker 1: and at the time that was the best bowl I'd

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Speaker 1: ever taken. One question I get asked just a ton

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Speaker 1: is what optics should I use for this type of hunt?

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Speaker 1: Do I need a spotting scope? What do you what

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Speaker 1: do you use for long range glassing? How far are

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Speaker 1: my optics good for? Like how far should I be looking?

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Speaker 1: Just various things like that, and so what I wanted

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Speaker 1: running through all the categories of optics and then breaking

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Speaker 1: about optics, what the uses are for each of those,

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Speaker 1: and then tailoring making it so you can tailor that

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Speaker 1: you've got a certain budget. It's like, well, do I

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Speaker 1: spend more money on a spotting scope or a pair

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Speaker 1: of binoculars. Do I get a range finder or a

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Speaker 1: many instances. I would put them on the list of needs,

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00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,439
Speaker 1: kind of near the bottom of like that, once you

428
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 1: already have everything else, here's a fun incidental that you

429
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 1: can take on those certain strips. Now, if you live

430
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 1: in Arizona, maybe Nevada, you've got like you're accused, deer hunter.

431
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,960
Speaker 1: Or one hunt that I use them on more than

432
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,440
Speaker 1: anything spring bear hunting. When I'm just sitting all day

433
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 1: looking at a hill that's a certain distance away, trying

434
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,879
Speaker 1: to pick out something that's about as tall as the

435
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,160
Speaker 1: brush that I'm looking at. Being able to look through

436
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 1: high magnification binoculars, I can just look through them through

437
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,440
Speaker 1: a longer period of time, and it's a lot more

438
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 1: comfortable than staring through my handheld binoculars or even a

439
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 1: lighter magnification binoculars on the tripod, because I can really

440
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 1: pick it apart, but it's not is eye straining as

441
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: looking through a spotting scope. So there are some really

442
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: really good hunts that high powered, high magnification binoculars are.

443
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 1: I would say an advantage another hunt that I like

444
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: to bring them on is I'll have my chest binoculars.

445
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 1: And there's so many hunts where backcountry hunts, maybe more

446
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 1: open country, where I might not be necessarily trying to

447
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,880
Speaker 1: nitpick exactly the size of what I'm looking at. I

448
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 1: would say I don't really need a spotting scope, but

449
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 1: I do want that extra magnification for verification on what

450
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking at. So there's a lot of back country

451
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,400
Speaker 1: hunts where I throw those in because they might be

452
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 1: a little bit lighter or maybe even the same weight

453
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,640
Speaker 1: as my spotting scope. But I know that I can

454
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 1: look through them longer, and I might not know the

455
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: type of country that I'm getting into, but I know

456
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some some good areas where I can

457
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,639
Speaker 1: use that extra magnification to maybe glass the top of

458
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: the mountain without having to walk up there, or really

459
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 1: pick apart some more thick cover areas with those binoculars

460
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 1: for a longer period of time. So there's a lot

461
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: of hunts where those high magnification binos are really good

462
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 1: binocular to have, and I really, I mean I use

463
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,919
Speaker 1: that find myself using those more and more on a

464
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 1: lot of hunts where it's really optics intensive. If you

465
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: live in an area where that's the type of hunting

466
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: you're gonna be doing, maybe this is something you're gonna

467
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: want to start to look into, and maybe it might

468
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: even be something that you think about before getting a

469
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: spotting scope for certain types of places in certain type

470
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:18,719
Speaker 1: of hunting. Next up, we're gonna be talking about spotting scopes.

471
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 1: So I think of the spotting scope like this. The

472
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 1: spotting scope is in addition to my binoculars. I think

473
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 1: it's very hard if there's I've I know guys that

474
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: do this, and it's just it doesn't really work for

475
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 1: me and doesn't really work well for a long period

476
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: of time. I believe that guys use their spotting scope

477
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: is their main method of glassing. For me, it just

478
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: doesn't work because one you're you're only one I focused,

479
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,640
Speaker 1: so it kind of jacks with your vision a little bit,

480
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: causes a little bit more eye strain over a long

481
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: period of time. Um, and it can be difficult to

482
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 1: really focus in. Now I've developed some tactics where it's

483
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 1: a little bit easier to glass with that one eye,

484
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 1: where I I throw my jacket over myself so I

485
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 1: can keep both eyes open but really shade my other

486
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 1: off eye so I can focus in on what I'm

487
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: looking through through the spotting scope. But um, for me,

488
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: the spotting scope is primarily used on hunts where I'm

489
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 1: either looking really long distances, being fairly picky when it

490
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: comes to what I'm looking for, or in an area

491
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: or type of hunt that's very glass and intensive, so

492
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: meaning that I'm using my binoculars a lot, but then

493
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: maybe I'm at a good glassing vantage, and for me

494
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 1: to walk over and verify maybe a waste of time

495
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: when I can just take out my spotting scope and

496
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 1: double check what I'm looking at. There's very few hunts

497
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: where I personally don't take a spotting scope, But the

498
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: type of spotting scope I prefer to take depends on

499
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: the type of hunt that I'm doing. Now, I'm very

500
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,439
Speaker 1: fortunate that I have get a try a lot of

501
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: spotting scopes and have multiple spotting scopes that I use

502
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: for various applications. I would say spotting scopes are similar

503
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: in the way that you've got your magnification and then

504
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: your objective lens, and what you're gonna get from that

505
00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 1: is your magnification. You know, we'll have some m zoom factor,

506
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: So some might be twelve to sixty power, some might

507
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: be twenty two eight power. I would say, like a

508
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: probably a good mid range spotting scale. We're gonna be

509
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 1: like that fifteen power probably with like a sixty or

510
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: sixty five objective And what that is is so that

511
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: objective lens is your outer lens that gives you your

512
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: field of view. But what it also does is is

513
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: light gathering. So the larger your objective lens, the more

514
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 1: light that's going to come in, the better it is

515
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: at those crepuscular times morning and evening, or looking into

516
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 1: harsh shadows in harsh lights. So on the times when

517
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: a spotting scope is really handy, you might think it

518
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: is like morning and evening, but actually I use it

519
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,640
Speaker 1: a lot middle of the day to look into those

520
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: betting areas where I can look at them out and say, okay,

521
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: there's shade right there, pull out my spotting scope, crank

522
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: it up to max power, and really look underneath the trees,

523
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: underneath the shadow, in that stuff that's real dark, where

524
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: those animals are going to be at that time of day.

525
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: I really find the spotting scope helpful for that. So

526
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: if we're thinking about spotting scopes and their application, like

527
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: I said, it's it's more of a verification. So if

528
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: I've got a good a limited entry draw tag I've got,

529
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: or I'm hunting meal, dear or something that's fairly glass

530
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: and intensive um and maybe I'm looking for a certain

531
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: type of meal, or maybe a one seventy or a

532
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: big four by four, a mature meal dear, a spotting

533
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: scope is really going to be key to making that

534
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: hunt more successful. Where I can sit down on my

535
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: glassing knob, I can look for deer. Okay, I see

536
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: a deer way off from the distance, I can pull

537
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: out my spotting scope and analyze that deer. Is it

538
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: a dough? Is it a buck? Is it something that

539
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 1: I want to walk over there in stock? Now? Should

540
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 1: I can? I be able to follow that deer through

541
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: the spotting scope till it beds and gives me an

542
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: advantageous time for a stock. Now on the flip side,

543
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: if you're a guy's like, hey, I'm just here for

544
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: I'm on an elk hunt. I just want to kill

545
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: a legal bull. I'm packing in I'm going backcountry. Any

546
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: bull elk will do? You know, spotting scope may not

547
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 1: be necessary because it's a lot of extra weight, and

548
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: what you're really looking for is, for the most part,

549
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: you can tell the difference between a bull elk and

550
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 1: a cow oak from a very very long ways away,

551
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: just based on the color of their hide. Bulls are

552
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: a lot more blonde. They're a lot lighter dark on

553
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: the front end, blonde in the middle. I mean, I

554
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: can throw my bionoes up. I've looked at a lot

555
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: of elk, though, but throw my bionoes up five miles

556
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: away and say, yeah, there's a bull in that herd. Now,

557
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: whether it's a spike or whether it's a mature bull,

558
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: you know, it can be difficult to tell. But for

559
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,199
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes, like, hey, yeah, I'm willing to

560
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: go hunt that, I'll go over there, get closer, see

561
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: if I can get in on him, and then I

562
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: may not necessarily need the weight of the spotting scope.

563
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of hunts and applications where that

564
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: spotting scope is crucial to the hunt. You know, it's

565
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: crucial to being able to identify what you're looking at,

566
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: saves you that let your eyes do the walking. Being

567
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: able to zoom in and see what you're looking at

568
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: can be really key on most hunts. Now, the weight

569
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 1: and the size and the zoom of your spotting scope

570
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: can vary. So I would say, let's do the fifteen

571
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: We'll go fifteen by to forty five magnification by sixty

572
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 1: five objective. This is probably something close to that is

573
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: gonna be kind of like that ten by forty two binocular.

574
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: It's going to be the most versatile, and you're kind

575
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: of balancing weight verse light transmission and magnification. So something

576
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: in that range is probably going to be the right

577
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: balance for everything from backcountry hunting to kind of day

578
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: hunt type hunting. Now, if you're the kind of person

579
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: that's like you're looking for a certain type of animal

580
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: every time you go hunting, Uh, there's a lot of places.

581
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: You know, growing up in Nevada, tags can be few

582
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: and far between. So when you get a tag, it's like,

583
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: I want to make the most out of this tag

584
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: um And you know, I spend a lot of time

585
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: glassing on those kind of hunts. I actually would just

586
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: sacrifice carrying a little bit more weight and get something

587
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: more like a twenty to sixty power magnification with maybe

588
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: an eighty five objective where it's got a bigger objective,

589
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: more like gathering a little bit more magnification, where I

590
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: can really zoom in, I can really focus in on stuff,

591
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: I can check things out far far away, I can

592
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: look into those shadows and really maybe see something in

593
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: the middle of the day and use that scope and

594
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: really just put that scope to work. Then that's probably

595
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: what I'm going to look at now there's a flip side.

596
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: And one thing that I carry probably more than anything,

597
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: is just a super lights like a thirty three mill objective.

598
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: I think it's UM eleven to thirty three power magnification

599
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: spotting scope because for a lot of backcountry hunts, I

600
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: just need that spotting scampe to verify. Yeah, that's something

601
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: I'm willing to chase, but I don't necessarily need to

602
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: glass through it for prolonged periods of time. I'm not

603
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: really trying to pick stuff out in the middle of

604
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: the day, but if I needed to, I've got it

605
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: as a backup, So that's always an option as well,

606
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,959
Speaker 1: like a more lightweight backcountry style spotting scope, And with

607
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: each one of these there's just kind of weight ratios

608
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: that factor into it. Now. Also, when you're talking about

609
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: spotting scopes, you've got angled verse straight. This is a

610
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: big debate for a lot of people. Me personally, I

611
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: don't know. I've always just used straight because I like

612
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: that target acquisition of it's just intuit If I can

613
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: look at it, I can be glassing with my binoculars.

614
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: I can throw the scope up. I don't even have

615
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: to think about it, don't have to readjust the tripod.

616
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: I don't have to readjust anything. It's all just right there.

617
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: But I will say, like, for if you're glassing real

618
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: steep stuff, and angled scope is really nice where you

619
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: can have it a little bit lower to the ground,

620
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: a more natural head position, especially when you're glassing from

621
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: a valley floor up a lot, it's really good. Um,

622
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: the angled can be okay, it can be a little

623
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: awkward when you're glassing like real steep down, but you

624
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: can actually on all of them turn them sideways a

625
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: little bit. I will say, though, it can get very

626
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: hard to get used to to find that target real fast.

627
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: So if you spotted something with your binos like, oh,

628
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go spot it now, and you've got your

629
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: angled scope, and if you aren't used to it, it

630
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: can get a little bit tricky to find sometimes. But

631
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: it for for a lot of people, it's it's a

632
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: little bit more comfortable to have that angled eyepiece than straight.

633
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: If you're a guy that does a lot of like

634
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: glassing from the vehicle where you might drive glass a

635
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: long distance, you've got a window mount, I think the

636
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: straight works a lot better for that, which actually I

637
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: mean that's a really effective way for scouting, you know,

638
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: checking a bunch of multiple points and looking really far away.

639
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: A lot of guys have, like especially Western guys that

640
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: are really looking for a certain type of animal. I mean,

641
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: I see a lot of guides some of the guys

642
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: that killed the biggest animals every year. It's because of

643
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: a window mount and a really high power spotting scope.

644
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: They drive to locations, they cover a lot of country

645
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: and they let their eyes do the walking. And that's

646
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: probably they're probably got a straight spotting scope with maybe

647
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: eighty five mill objective and something that cranked up to

648
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: sixty power and that works really well. So um, that

649
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: kind of gives you an overview of spotting scopes. Now

650
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna move over to range finders. When it comes

651
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: to range finders, I think that you know you would

652
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: you would almost instantly think, Okay, the range finder that

653
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: goes the furthest is going to be the best. But

654
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: that's not always the case because there's a lot of

655
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: nuances with range finders where a certain range finder does

656
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: something but it lacks in something else. Just like every

657
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: piece of optics, there's one that's really good for situation

658
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: but has a negative downside. There's a spotting scope that

659
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: has really high magnification, good light gathering, but it's super heavy,

660
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: hard to carry in the back country. Um, the same

661
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: thing happens with range finders. So a range finder just

662
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: because it goes really far may not be the best

663
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: application for you. Now, I like a range finder that

664
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: ranges a long ways, especially when I'm rifle hunting or

665
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: for planning a stock. I think there's nothing better. But

666
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: one thing you want to look for when you're looking

667
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: at range finders, well, what kind of hunting do you

668
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: mostly do? If you're mostly an archery hunter, you've got

669
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: to make sure that that range finder that goes really

670
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: far maybe calculates within bow ranges. There's some range finders

671
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: that are really good, really accurate out to far distances,

672
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: but maybe don't range anything under a hundred yards, or

673
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: maybe don't do angle calculations under a hundred yards, and

674
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: vice versa. Maybe there's some range finders that are great

675
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: for archery, but they don't do angle calculations past a

676
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: certain yards for rifle hunting. So what I like to

677
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: do is I like to find a range finder that's

678
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: really got a little bit of both, where go out

679
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: to the distances that I would rifle shoot, but also

680
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: is effective for archery hunting, because I primarily archery hunt.

681
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: And one thing that I would say is a feature

682
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: I must have in every range finder is going to

683
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: be angle compensation, So some kind of compensation for the

684
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: angle when you're if you range something, you know it

685
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: does that A square plus B squared equals C squared

686
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: automatically in the range finders, so you don't have to

687
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: do calculations. Since range finders have done that, it's made

688
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: well me personally a lot more successful and have to

689
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: have a lot less gadgets. When I first had a

690
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: range finder, it's like sweet. It just ranged straight. And

691
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: I actually had a stick on in kilometer on there

692
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: that had a thumb button, so I would range it

693
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: and then I would hit the thumb button and hold

694
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: this like it's almost looked like a almost like a compass,

695
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: and then would tell me my angle. This is all

696
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: like very premous stuff. And then I had on a

697
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: cut chart on my wrist. I would have like a

698
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: wrist guard that keeps the string from slapping your arm.

699
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: I would have had a cut shirt on there, and

700
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: then I had one in my pocket and so I

701
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: could look at that and I would look at the range,

702
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: look at the angle, and then follow the chart to

703
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: see the horizontal compensated distance. Now you don't have to

704
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: worry about that. The range finder just does it all

705
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: for you, which is really nice. So you want to

706
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: make sure that for your application that works for whatever

707
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: you're doing. So whether if you're a rifle hunter and

708
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: you're like, it's a hundred yards less doesn't matter, it's

709
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: just point and shoot, but out to five yards, I

710
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: want to know that angle compensation. I want to make

711
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: sure that I can get a really good range out

712
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: further distances, make sure it's super accurate. Then you're gonna

713
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: want one of those really high power range finders. Now,

714
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: if you're a bow hunter in that high power range

715
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: finder doesn't work under a hundred yards or doesn't compensate

716
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: angle under hunter yards, you're probably gonna want to look

717
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: for something else. So that's what I look for when

718
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about range finders. The next category is gonna

719
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 1: be range finding binoculars. Now you think, okay, range finding binoculars.

720
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: I I love range finding binoculars, especially when I'm guiding,

721
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: because it allows me to be hands free I can

722
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: be glassing and then also calling out ranges to the

723
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: person next to me, saying okay, yep, a hundred yards

724
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: to earners, especially when something is moving you're in the action.

725
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: I don't have to switch between two things. I've got

726
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: my range finding binoculars right there. I actually just started

727
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: testing out a pair of range Vortex range finding binoculars

728
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: that have ballistic A B curves and data that can

729
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: send it to different devices as well, which is really

730
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: cool because I can click it, have all my input

731
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,720
Speaker 1: data in there and then know, okay, three minutes of angle.

732
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: Or if I'm guiding someone, I could say, hey, give

733
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 1: me your give me your bullet, give me your drop compensation,

734
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: give me everything. I can input this, and then right

735
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: there within the unit, I can either do that or

736
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: have it sent to my watch or whatever. There's just

737
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: so many applications for especially for long range shooting. They're awesome.

738
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 1: I used range finding binoculars for a very long time

739
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: and it's a really fast, efficient way to to use

740
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,919
Speaker 1: a bino and a range. It combines two really good things.

741
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: There are a few drawbacks, however, One they're they're heavy.

742
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: They can be fairly expensive as well. Um I think

743
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: one of the major drawbacks with range finding your binoculars

744
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: is the fact that the the button for the range

745
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,439
Speaker 1: finder has to be on one side or the other

746
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: for most of them. I think there might be somewhere

747
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: you can switch the button on whichever side you want,

748
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: but you have to think of it like this. If

749
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: I'm bow hunting right, I'm generally holding my bow with

750
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,959
Speaker 1: my left hand, so I'm gonna want to range finding

751
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: binocular with the button on the right side. Well, I

752
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 1: shoot right handed if you're left handed, to be the opposite,

753
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: So because my hand is gonna be holding the bow,

754
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: I could take the binoculars out hit the range I

755
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: had the first pair I ever had. I had to

756
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: reach over and press the button with my left like

757
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: it was on the left side, but I'd hold it

758
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: with my right hand. There's like this weird awkward reach

759
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: over thing. Now the exact opposite. If you're a rifle shooter,

760
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna be a right handed rifle shooter. The

761
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: gun's gonna be shouldered on your right side, You're gonna

762
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: pull the binoculars out with your left hand, and you're

763
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: gonna want to be able to operate that with your

764
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: left index finger. So just something to think about. Um,

765
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: it's kind of like picking a range finder for your application.

766
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: Range finding binocular kind of for your application as well.

767
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: If you're a bow hunter, make sure that it has

768
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: the features that you want for bow hunting, and then

769
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: obviously it'll be able to do some of the other

770
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: stuff as well. If you're primarily a rifle shooter, you know,

771
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: kind of think about something around that that rifle like

772
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: range finding binocular for the rifle and actually the new

773
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: ones they can be a little bit complicated with all

774
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: the ballistic data. But man, if you're into that, if

775
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: you're into long range shooting, that's I think that's the

776
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: best scenario in my opinion. If I'm going out on

777
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: a rifle hunt or I'm guiding rifle clients, first binocular

778
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: will probably put on. It's just range finding binocular with

779
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 1: ballistic data in it, because it just makes everything so

780
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: streamlined so fast, and it's a really cool technology to have.

781
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: Plus you've got a good optic as well. Now the

782
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: last piece optic would be your rifle scope. And I

783
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: I remember reading an article. I don't even know where

784
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: it was at. It's just a long time ago. And

785
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: it was like the thought of you know, for the

786
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: longest time, it's always been rifles, right, those rifles, And

787
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: then it's like, but I think that if you were

788
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: to spend let's say you spent five on a rifle

789
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: and then put a rifle scope on it, you've just

790
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: kind of rendered like, this really really good rifle quite useless.

791
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: Most rifles shoot pretty good, even like factory made box

792
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: store rifles shoot pretty decent, and sometimes that accuracy is

793
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: just comes down to the rifle scope that you put

794
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: on it. So if I were to pick the two

795
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: things that I would probably put my money on, it

796
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: would be binoculars first and rifle scope second, because you

797
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: want to be able to hit what you're shooting at

798
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: and you want that gun to be accurate, and you

799
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: want to make sure that that accuracy isn't a factor

800
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: of the scope that you've put on top of it,

801
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: and people don't sometimes understand how much that can affect

802
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: the accuracy. Things like parallax shadowing. If you don't have

803
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: your cheek exactly where it's supposed to be when you

804
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: the same time you shot last time, and your head

805
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different, and that right, that's that

806
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: crosshair tends to move like it looks like it's moving

807
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: in scope, which often happens in cheaper scopes that don't

808
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: have as much many features or or different type of

809
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: um focal plane. Then you might think that that rifle

810
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: is fairly inaccurate, when it actually is just the scope itself.

811
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: I've had scopes on rifles that I shot really well,

812
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: but handed to another guy and it's like they shot

813
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: completely different because the way that they were looking their

814
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: cheek world was a little bit different. The way that

815
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: they look through that scope was a little bit different,

816
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: and there wasn't any way to adjust that. So when

817
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: it comes to rifle scopes, there is a myriad of

818
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: different features functions. I mean, you can get so specific

819
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: for the type of If you are a guy that

820
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: likes to shoot long range, long distance targets, there's a

821
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: rifle scope for you. If you're a guy that shoots

822
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: um the backwards from your tree stand at twenty yards,

823
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 1: there's a rifle scope for you. There's different rifle scopes

824
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: with different types of raticles that light up that do.

825
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: I mean, there's more different types of rifle scopes than

826
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: I could possibly covered in fifty podcasts. But what I'm

827
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: what I do want to cover is just kind of

828
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: the basic um features of some rifle scopes and kind

829
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: of some things that I think are important when you're

830
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: looking at a rifle scope. So let's start with the

831
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: basic rifle scope. Rifle scopes, just like all these other

832
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: optics we've talked about, have the magnification and objective lens.

833
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: So uh, kind of the standard for a very long

834
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: time would be like a two to ten so two

835
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: power to tend power probably by maybe a forty or

836
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: forty four middle objective. I think. Now for me personally,

837
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: I like anything in the four to sixteen power or

838
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: even higher. I like that sixteen magnification. I like being

839
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: able to bump it up a little bit, even up

840
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: to twenty power magnification is nice because for my rifles,

841
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: I like to be able to shoot a little bit

842
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: of distance as well, So I think having that being

843
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: able to zoom in even when you're at a hundred yards,

844
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: it's nice to be able to crank that rifle up. Now,

845
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: when it comes to the radical inside, we'll just go

846
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: with like the basic radical that's just a standard cross hair.

847
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: This is fine for a lot applications, especially if you're

848
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: just shooting pretty much fixed distance the furthest you're ever

849
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: going to shoot the hundred yards, then you don't really

850
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,919
Speaker 1: need all the bells and whistles. A standard cross hair

851
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: two to ten that's perfect. If you're mostly hunting thick timber,

852
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna be zoomed out to that to power. Anyways,

853
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: that's a great scope to have just a fixed ratical

854
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: in there. Great. Now, if it was me and I'm

855
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: buying a rifle scope that I'm gonna use for different

856
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: different things. Maybe we're gonna hunt mealed here. Maybe you

857
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: live and you're hunting white tails primarily, but you might

858
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 1: go out and hunt elk, whatever it is. I like

859
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: any kind of scope that has some form of hold

860
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: over or drop compensation adjustment in it. I personally like

861
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: to use an adjustable turret, but I like a radical

862
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: that has some form of drop compensation. So what that

863
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: is is I can cite my cross hair in and

864
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: then there's something underneath it, like a line or mill

865
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: dot or something that in the scope I can look

866
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: through and know that at a different range, this is

867
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: where I hold for at If you've got that basic

868
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: crossair you can just use the cross air and then

869
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: the pope. I used to do the same exact thing

870
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: with just the primary crossair and then the post as

871
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: knowing where that post was and then knowing how far

872
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: from that post and the main crossair various ranges were.

873
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: That was all well and good, but it's not necessarily precise.

874
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: So it's really nice, especially for Western hunting applications, to

875
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: be able to know where you're holding, what your holdovers are,

876
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,240
Speaker 1: and how to shoot it a little bit further distance,

877
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: whether it's three hund yards, three d fifty yards or

878
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: out to five hundred yards. It's really good to have

879
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: something to focus on to aim with. One thing you'll

880
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: see on rifle scopes might be something called the first

881
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: focal plane. The first focal plane scope means that the

882
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: relationship of what that crossair represents as you're looking through

883
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 1: it is the same regardless of magnification. So on a

884
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: first focal plane scope you gotta think of it like this,

885
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: um as I zoom out, the crosshairs actually zoom out,

886
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: and as I zoom in, the crosshairs actually get larger.

887
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: Because what it does is it makes that whatever I'm

888
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: looking through at that magnification, the representation in the in

889
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: the scope. I think some people get confused. They get

890
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: these scopes that have different lines in them and they

891
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: can use them, but it might not be a first

892
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: focal plane scope. So if you're form power magnification that scope,

893
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: that first mark below your crosser means something completely different

894
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: than when it's on full magnification, say fifteen or sixteen powers.

895
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter which one you do. You just

896
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: need to know which system it is and then how

897
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 1: to use it. So if you've got those lines in

898
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: your scope, that first line down is you sighted in

899
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: for two hundred yards, next one downs three, next one

900
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 1: downs four hundred, bottom ones five, But it only means

901
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: that it's sixteen power magnification or full magnification. Then when

902
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: you're shooting it, you need to make sure that it's

903
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: turned up to the full magnification and you're shooting it

904
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: for the correct distance with those lines. So I'd say

905
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: when I think about getting a rifle scope, I like

906
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: something that. I mean, it's just like anything. You've got

907
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: the weight ratio, you've got the functions and the features

908
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: and different things you like. Me personally, my ideal scope

909
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: has an adjustable turret because I like to adjust for

910
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: the exact conditions that I'm in. I don't like it

911
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: pre done. I don't like pre numbers. I like to

912
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: use a ballistics data to trying to adjust that turret.

913
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: I like one that has the locking turrets on it,

914
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: so that the windage and the elevation is locked. I

915
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: prefer one mostly the only thing I'm going to use

916
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: in that scope is a windage turret, So that's kind

917
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: of the scopes that I go for. And then I

918
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: like something in the four to sixteen power range um

919
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: maybe by fifty mil objective. It's a little bit heavier,

920
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: but it's a little bit more light gathering. And then

921
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: something where it's got an adjustable parallax. So at the

922
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: different ranges, what I'm doing is I'm kind of getting

923
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: rid of that parallax shadowing that I talked about. So

924
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: when your head is in maybe a little bit slightly

925
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: different position, especially for field shooting, you might be in

926
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: like kind of a weird angle or slightly different position.

927
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: I can adjust that for the range so I don't

928
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: get as much shadowing, and that cross hair is like

929
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: true to where it should be shooting. And those are

930
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: the features that I personally like. Now on the flip side,

931
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: I've got a gun that's a real light gun, and

932
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: I just put a real basic light scope in it

933
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: that doesn't even have a first vocal plane. It's got

934
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: uh different stadi alignes for the different yardages, but it

935
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: has to be on full magnification. It's a really light scope.

936
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: It doesn't have all the bells and whistles. The parallax

937
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a real like bad parallax problem after

938
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: testing it, And so I just put that on a

939
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: lightweight gun to keep the gun lightweight, to keep everything simple,

940
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: and you do not have to think about so many

941
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: moving parts because it's a gun that I'm not really

942
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: going to be shooting super far, and in a hunting scenario,

943
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: it's great for hunting, quick target acquisition and works really great.

944
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: So I think kind of picking a rifle scope for

945
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: the type of shooting you like to do and the

946
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: type of hunting you like to do, just like all

947
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: these optics, kind of tailoring it to what you are

948
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: planning on doing the type of hunting and the style

949
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 1: that you like, is going to be the first step

950
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: in deciding, Okay, which optic is right for me, and

951
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: then going from there and picking one that really works.

952
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: I really hope this optics run down a lot of you.

953
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 1: I just get that asked questions so much about optics

954
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: that I wanted to give this broad overview and it

955
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: kind of help you think about maybe some things that

956
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: come to my mind when I think about, Okay, what

957
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: optics would be the good optic to have? And this

958
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: is a really good way to think about it is

959
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: making kind of your kit very specific to the type

960
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: of hunting that you do for the majority of your hunting,

961
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: but also where it can reach out and and do

962
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: things for if you go on another kind of hunt

963
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: or you start to hunt in another type of area.

964
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: You know, for me, I prefer higher magnification binoculars, but

965
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: I also don't hunt as much heavy cover, so when

966
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 1: I do, my binoculars work great for that because it's

967
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,479
Speaker 1: not a lot of time spent there, but it works

968
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: really good for the majority of my hunting purposes. So

969
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: that's just something to think about. I think next week

970
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to jump into kind of doing the same

971
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: thing with another topic. Another type of gear that I

972
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: get asked about as much as anything would be boots

973
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 1: and packs two things that I think it's just weight,

974
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: airing and a strenuous activity. So it's something that is

975
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: inherently uncomfortable, and you're trying to take a product and

976
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: make it more comfortable. So I'm gonna cover the types

977
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: of boost and the types of packs that I look

978
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: for when I'm planning either a backcountry hunt, a day hunt,

979
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: a prolonged hunt, maybe a hunt in rocky rough country,

980
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: or a hunt more in the plane. So I'm gonna

981
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: go over the types of packs and the types of

982
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 1: gear and the things that look for, very similar to

983
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: the way that we just did the optics. So until

984
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: next week, I hope you are looking forward. There's a

985
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,800
Speaker 1: little pun in there to what we have in store

986
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: for more gear selection stuff. I'll catch you guys all

987
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: next week and see you later another pun optics