Started hiking in this morning in the dark to an area that we know holds good deer . The plan was to make about a two mile loop and glass as much as possible along the way, when we were about a mile in my brother glassed up this nice 4 by 4. He immediately set up the spotting scope tripod so that I could use it as a rest and asked me if I was willing to shoot the buck. Kind of a crazy question but we have seen bigger deer in this unit. The buck was 260 yards uphill and had us pegged, so I got on the tripod found him in my scope and squeezed one off. The rest is history, nothing like opening day success on a nice desert muley ;D