Hey all,
After reading with great interest the advice on glassing when rifle hunting for Muleys (see recent thread "how are you guys seeing so many deer"), I decided to take along my Leupold 12x50 Mojaves on my recent trip to VA just to practice, even though we'd be mostly hunting heavily wooded areas with shots generally no more than 150 yards through the trees.
What really surprised me was how helpful the binocs were for viewing through the trees. Viewed with the naked eye, the woods just looked like a jumble of sticks to me. But with the binocs I could sift through at various depths of focus, eliminating the foreground and background distractions because of the shortened depth of focus viewed through the binocs. That was a real revelation because before that I'd assumed that the binocs were good mainly for bringing things closer by magnifying them.
I figure it will help sifting through heavier thickets out here as well.
Thoughts?
After reading with great interest the advice on glassing when rifle hunting for Muleys (see recent thread "how are you guys seeing so many deer"), I decided to take along my Leupold 12x50 Mojaves on my recent trip to VA just to practice, even though we'd be mostly hunting heavily wooded areas with shots generally no more than 150 yards through the trees.
What really surprised me was how helpful the binocs were for viewing through the trees. Viewed with the naked eye, the woods just looked like a jumble of sticks to me. But with the binocs I could sift through at various depths of focus, eliminating the foreground and background distractions because of the shortened depth of focus viewed through the binocs. That was a real revelation because before that I'd assumed that the binocs were good mainly for bringing things closer by magnifying them.
I figure it will help sifting through heavier thickets out here as well.
Thoughts?
