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Post by trappincoyotes39 on Jan 5, 2010 15:39:53 GMT -6
UPS dropped off earlier today a new set of binocs for calling my old ones have seen the test of time. I went with the new Steiner predator C5's in 10x42 and wow are they nice!!!!! I would compair them to zeiss or swaro's as far as clarity go and very fast focusing. For the price and the rebates they had until years end I got a great deal!!!!
If your in the market for new binocs I would look at these as they are great glass and will save you a few hundered over some other brands. 30 year warranty on them as well. FWIW
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Post by trappnman on Jan 5, 2010 16:16:12 GMT -6
that counts as next christmas's present!
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Post by borderbandit on Jan 6, 2010 20:01:23 GMT -6
I cannot think of a single reason I would ever need a binocular for calling predators? Im always preaching to newbies the need to pare down on the magnification of the glass they use, and get a good fixed 4X or 6X, instead of the crazy big glass that is popular with some callers.
Thus far, even my tired old eyes can make out a coyote at 40 yards, but with my fast fading eyesight, maybe I need to hang a binocular around my neck?
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Post by FWS on Jan 6, 2010 20:24:42 GMT -6
Cats, good binos are a 'should have' for hunting them. And I say 'hunting' as opposed to just calling because glassing for them is very effective out here. I carry binos for pretty much all hunting, big game, varmints, upland birds, waterfowl, small game.................. Like the 1.5-6x42 Swarovski or Zeiss.  That's the case with most all of the optics manufacturers right now, Zeiss, Leica, Minox, etc, are dropping prices and offering rebates on top of that. |
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Post by lb on Jan 6, 2010 23:08:09 GMT -6
I'm with borderbandit. I have yet to find a use for binoculars on a stand for predators. I mean, I always have them. But they are under the seat, back at the truck. That's where I do the majority of my glassing unless I'm in the mountains, on foot hunting bigger game. I'm not on board with that statement about 40 yards, but I hunt other places besides down on his border.
Hey, I've got something in the mail, too! U.S. Optics SN3. I'm wondering what I'll put it on?
Good hunting. LB
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Post by Cal Taylor on Jan 7, 2010 7:13:46 GMT -6
Good grief LB, that is some serious scopage. As for the binos, I wouldn't go without them. I have now clue how many coyotes they have helped me kill, but a ton. I don't glass constantly, but will always do a good scan before I quit a stand and amazingly many times I see a coyote out there a ways just watching. Many times I can switch sounds up a little and get him on in for a shot. A coyote sitting or standing still at 400 yards is damn hard to see with the naked eye. And I have pretty good eyes still. But they are pretty easy to pick up with the binos. Plus I can easily look at suspicious objects that may be a coyote without picking up my rifle. Less movement.
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Post by sagecreek on Jan 7, 2010 7:24:53 GMT -6
I agree with Cal. We have alot of knee high sage. I have had a few just peeking over the top and would have missed them with out bios.
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Post by trappincoyotes39 on Jan 7, 2010 8:03:53 GMT -6
Binocs as Cal and Sage stated will help you kill more predators as some you just don't see! Not talking 40 yrds or 100 yrds but past that and with some cover.I have had them laying and only pick up ears and with them I can watch them come from quite a ways off and know where they will end up in my stand by their approach.
In more open country I see them as a must have for calling as they will help and not hurt you.
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Post by lb on Jan 7, 2010 11:15:41 GMT -6
I don't disagree with the above, but I submit; in heavy cover, you can miss coyotes all day long while scanning with binocs. They can jump up and appear out of a wash, around a bush or any number of obstructions. Arizona may not envision heavy cover, trackless desert and sand, but it ain't that way. You would be better served, gun in hand ready for the close encounters than scanning out beyond 400 yards.
However, I have seen Wyoming and I understand what is being said, although I have not hunted there in twenty years. The scanning with binocs works up in Nevada, too. But, generally speaking, it's a cat hung up with just it's head peaking over a rock. I usually depend on movement with coyotes. Another thing. You don't have to wonder why a coyote would hang up, up around Gillette! Cal kicks a$$ and takes names.
You know, the first time Huber hunted AZ, he didn't have a clue. His locating and hunting up wind didn't work, at all? From his lips.
Good hunting. LB
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Post by cdog911 on Jan 7, 2010 15:53:16 GMT -6
+1 on Cal's comments. I usually start carrying them about now to do a one last look-see along ridgelines, tree rows, and in cover at a distance to try and find any looky-loos that might be giving me the stink eye. A couple times each year, I find one hunkered in dappled shade or a set of ears just above the tallgrass that would have up and left at the same time I did if I hadn't spotted them, too. Safer to glass with binos and much less movement than trying the same thing with your rifle/ scope.
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