Okay, am I the only one wondering what happened to the big animal you pulled the bino out to look at? I keep waiting to hear the rest of the story.
Sorry about your bino. I'm sure that they will come back looking like new and working as good as ever.
Hopefully the repairs aren't too costly and I can get them back relatively quickly.
Not sure about Swaro- never had to use them yet- but Zeiss will give you a loaner of whatever you are having repaired if you explain to them that you still have hunts planned. I have done this 2 times with a spotting scope. Best of luck on a bum dealI spoke with a Swarovski service rep last week. Apparently this is their busier time and the current turn around time is approximately 8 weeks. By the end of Oct/beginning of Nov they anticipate the turn around time will decrease to about 4 weeks.
Regards,
So the $80 was for a rush repair...or a regular charge fee?I splurged and bought myself some SLCs... I also upgraded my tripod and got the outdoorsmans mount. the first day of my hunt, I clipped my binos into the tripod and then picked up the tripod to move it... the outdoorsmans looked like it was locked down, but it wasn't. The binos came off the tripod and landed right on the oculars. The glass was fine, but it knocked the housing out of alignment. I paid $80 for Swaro to rush the repair and get them back to me in time for my second hunt. Lesson learned: now I have a female clip attached to my tripod that matches the male quick release buckle on my bino harness. Now when I put my binos on the tripod, I clip them in as well, just in case...
Well it finally happened; I became one of the guys who destroyed his binos. I pulled my Swaro EL's out of my ACG harness and tripped while holding them. They came out of my hands and proceeded to roll and bounce down a rock filled hill side. It took 20 minutes to find them at the bottom of the hill and both ocular lenses had taken direct hits from rocks and were cracked. Surprisingly, the alignment of the lenses was maintained and even though the FOV is extremely compromised in the right barrel they still worked well enough to hunt with the next day. I attached a picture of the path the binos took and then a picture of the damage. Hopefully the repairs aren't too costly and I can get them back relatively quickly.
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