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Spotting Scope vs higher power rifle scope for backpack hunts
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<blockquote data-quote="packgoatguy" data-source="post: 1609719" data-attributes="member: 27192"><p>Thank you. While I appreciate and applaud everyone's perfect track record with their hunting ethics and safety practices... it was not necessarily the point of the convo. However, the points made are apt. That said, I can see how my original comments could be easily misconstrued. I was not suggesting that I use or would use my riflescope to scan aimlessly across the hillsides, "scoping" every hunter in sight just for the fun of it. Perhaps my approach is not the same as everyone's, but I spend about 99% of my time behind my binos glassing the "big picture." When I see something of interest, I give it a second look with the spotting scope. That is not to say that this practice couldn't be slightly modified for safety purposes if all that was on hand for higher magnification purposes was a rifle scope. After all, I can tell a deer is a deer at out to 1200 yards with my 10 power binos... but I cant distinctively see antlers beyond about 500 yards without the spotter or a good scope (especially smaller "meat bucks"). The purpose of the spotting scope (and likewise a rifle scope) isn't for me to decide if a critter is a deer or a human... that is usually pretty evident with the binos and within a yardage that any glass is going to be useful. </p><p></p><p>One thought though... to the poster advocating for "self defense" if he ever gets scoped out??? Sure would have been a much sadder ending to the several other stories shared here... where other hunters accidentally scoped out another. Guess what guys... news flash.. we are all human. Mistakes happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="packgoatguy, post: 1609719, member: 27192"] Thank you. While I appreciate and applaud everyone's perfect track record with their hunting ethics and safety practices... it was not necessarily the point of the convo. However, the points made are apt. That said, I can see how my original comments could be easily misconstrued. I was not suggesting that I use or would use my riflescope to scan aimlessly across the hillsides, "scoping" every hunter in sight just for the fun of it. Perhaps my approach is not the same as everyone's, but I spend about 99% of my time behind my binos glassing the "big picture." When I see something of interest, I give it a second look with the spotting scope. That is not to say that this practice couldn't be slightly modified for safety purposes if all that was on hand for higher magnification purposes was a rifle scope. After all, I can tell a deer is a deer at out to 1200 yards with my 10 power binos... but I cant distinctively see antlers beyond about 500 yards without the spotter or a good scope (especially smaller "meat bucks"). The purpose of the spotting scope (and likewise a rifle scope) isn't for me to decide if a critter is a deer or a human... that is usually pretty evident with the binos and within a yardage that any glass is going to be useful. One thought though... to the poster advocating for "self defense" if he ever gets scoped out??? Sure would have been a much sadder ending to the several other stories shared here... where other hunters accidentally scoped out another. Guess what guys... news flash.. we are all human. Mistakes happen. [/QUOTE]
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