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<blockquote data-quote="TheFishBox" data-source="post: 1892734" data-attributes="member: 28105"><p>You need to be realistic with yourself about what power you can hold steady. I hate to be this guy but I call bs on the guys that say they can hold a pair of 12's steady ( by steady I mean like on a tripod) this ain't happening. So if you aren't going to glass from a tripod there is no way I would go with higher than 10's and I personally would go with 8's. Since we are talking elk you aren't generally picking out the tip of a tine way off in the distance so you don't need huge magnification. If conserving weight and you only want one optic I would get a pair of 15's assuming fairly open country and mount them to a tripod</p><p></p><p>Zeiss ht binoculars to my eyes is far and away the best glass in binoculars, they make my non HD leicas look like a pair of bushnells. You need to go to a place that will let you take the binoculars outside and compare them side by side after adjusting them to your eyes and then let your eyes tell you what they like best.</p><p></p><p>My current setup is zeiss 10x42 ht's mounted to a tripod and for in my bino harness along with my 85 mm zeiss spotting scope for looking close at stuff way out there. With tripod mounted Binos the spotter gets used very rarely but I still lug it with me everywhere I go. Sorry for the long winded post but this is my two cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheFishBox, post: 1892734, member: 28105"] You need to be realistic with yourself about what power you can hold steady. I hate to be this guy but I call bs on the guys that say they can hold a pair of 12’s steady ( by steady I mean like on a tripod) this ain’t happening. So if you aren’t going to glass from a tripod there is no way I would go with higher than 10’s and I personally would go with 8’s. Since we are talking elk you aren’t generally picking out the tip of a tine way off in the distance so you don’t need huge magnification. If conserving weight and you only want one optic I would get a pair of 15’s assuming fairly open country and mount them to a tripod Zeiss ht binoculars to my eyes is far and away the best glass in binoculars, they make my non HD leicas look like a pair of bushnells. You need to go to a place that will let you take the binoculars outside and compare them side by side after adjusting them to your eyes and then let your eyes tell you what they like best. My current setup is zeiss 10x42 ht’s mounted to a tripod and for in my bino harness along with my 85 mm zeiss spotting scope for looking close at stuff way out there. With tripod mounted Binos the spotter gets used very rarely but I still lug it with me everywhere I go. Sorry for the long winded post but this is my two cents. [/QUOTE]
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