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<blockquote data-quote="Comancheria" data-source="post: 1653560" data-attributes="member: 110141"><p>Thanks for the additional information, Guys. </p><p></p><p><strong>Crawdad</strong>: At times I'll be Hunting with a guide, at times with one other backpacker, and at times solo. Due to not being a youngster anymore, I will probably limit my solo trips to careful, relatively short sorties out of my truck—maybe with a daypack and enough survival gear to get through one night if caught out. I</p><p></p><p>My backpack hunting partner is considerably younger than I, and an accomplished mountaineer and hunter. When he is along, I can whine and moan and he takes on some of my load—while calling me every dirty name in the book.j</p><p></p><p>I understand what you are saying about the importance of quality optics—and believe me, I have trimmed weight down to make way for the same tripod of which you speak—but with the slightly heavier head—for use with a hog saddle and for when I am insane enough to carry my 13 pound RUM!</p><p></p><p>Oh, and to answer your question about ranging, I have "invested" in the Swarovski dS—with built-in rangefinder, pressure, and inclination measurement and ballistic solver. Basically, you sight in, then feed your load information into a cell phone app, upload that dope into the scope—then in the field, you just point, push the ranging button—and shoot! That's the theory, anyway.</p><p></p><p>The main downside is the thing is heavy as Thor's war club and you do lose some of the brightness for which all Swaros are justly famous.</p><p></p><p>With all respect (and I mean that!) for your recommendation, I am now leaning pretty heavily to the advice <strong>Duckhunter</strong> is giving me on the el glasses—Gust can't handle the weight you young studs do—assaulting Everest solo with 200 poking packs and shooting Yetis at two miles!</p><p></p><p>Best regards,</p><p></p><p>Russ</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Comancheria, post: 1653560, member: 110141"] Thanks for the additional information, Guys. [B]Crawdad[/B]: At times I’ll be Hunting with a guide, at times with one other backpacker, and at times solo. Due to not being a youngster anymore, I will probably limit my solo trips to careful, relatively short sorties out of my truck—maybe with a daypack and enough survival gear to get through one night if caught out. I My backpack hunting partner is considerably younger than I, and an accomplished mountaineer and hunter. When he is along, I can whine and moan and he takes on some of my load—while calling me every dirty name in the book.j I understand what you are saying about the importance of quality optics—and believe me, I have trimmed weight down to make way for the same tripod of which you speak—but with the slightly heavier head—for use with a hog saddle and for when I am insane enough to carry my 13 pound RUM! Oh, and to answer your question about ranging, I have “invested” in the Swarovski dS—with built-in rangefinder, pressure, and inclination measurement and ballistic solver. Basically, you sight in, then feed your load information into a cell phone app, upload that dope into the scope—then in the field, you just point, push the ranging button—and shoot! That’s the theory, anyway. The main downside is the thing is heavy as Thor’s war club and you do lose some of the brightness for which all Swaros are justly famous. With all respect (and I mean that!) for your recommendation, I am now leaning pretty heavily to the advice [B]Duckhunter[/B] is giving me on the el glasses—Gust can’t handle the weight you young studs do—assaulting Everest solo with 200 poking packs and shooting Yetis at two miles! Best regards, Russ [/QUOTE]
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