Attn Paul

https://safariclub.org/a-look-into-optics-technology/

Looks interesting.

I have asked friend who is a dealer to check them out.

I thought that the article may have piqued SM338`s interest but he has been missing in action.

He hasn’t been here since last month.

Might be hunting and I hope he is having a great time.

Paul published a book on the innards of riflescopes hence I alerted him to the link. It is a bit odd that he hasn't replied I thought.

Thanks John,
sorry for my absence; the tablet I was consigned to for this purpose packed it in and I haven't got another one. Finally, I got permission from our family 'web master' to use the computer, as long as I lay off opening links.

I'll open that one of yours, though, just to show my faith in your processes.


Cheers
- Paul

Thanks guys
yes, I have been hunting and to Tahiti as well. (if you go, make it early July so you won't miss the scintillating drum-dance festival! Google drum dancing if you don't know what I mean )

As to Gryphon's link, it does raise questions of ethics in my mind. If you are out just to kill pests, I guess almost everything is fair - but as a 44-year member of the ADA, I prefer not to hunt deer by using unfair advantages.

My personal line in the sand is not to use anything electric to actually get them. I don't mind finding my way back to camp with a GPS or marking a carcase for further meat retrieval but I won't mark a wallow with one and eschew even illuminated scopes.

I see there is a move to make thermal devices legal for finding wounded deer, and suppose that would be a legitimate use of them. However, I would not be inclined to make them more 'legal' because you can bet some 'sportsmen' will also use them before the shot.

On the subject of stabilising binoculars, my hands must be getting steadier. When I was a boy we were told any bino over 8x was impossible to hold steadily, but I find 10x42s fine these days, esp. when I can hold them with two hands. I find the so-called 'Safari sling' helps with this because it leaves both hands free while keeping your rifle immediately usable.

Happy to hear that you are still kicking Paul.
Btw I have been using 10 x 42`s for so long I forget what I paid

Thanks John,
my regret is that I've never actually discovered a sambar by looking through binoculars. They confirm that something is not a deer and occasionally that it is, but then it usually clears off before I can raise the rifle.

Geez I have cobber,many many times,in fact I took pics of one today that without the swaros it wouldnt have happened.

Maybe it is just that I make do with Nikons - or don't have that Errol Mason country to peer into.