Optics

I'm not gonna lie … I like big glass.  My spotting scope choice for general western hunting has been the excellent Swarovski ATX 85mm for nearly a decade.  That...

The Granite Peak Tripod by KDC might be the fastest in the industry.

Leica has been in the optics game for quite some time and arguably has some of the best glass out there. Their pride in the quality of their binoculars...

Manfrotto Tripod Head 342RC2 By Robby Denning One of my outfitting clients showed up in camp this year with a joystick tripod head.  While I knew these were on...

Optics for Hunting Part 2:  What We AREN’T Looking For: By Matt Cashell This is the second part of a reference series on optical performance for the hunter.  In...

The Perfect Backcountry Companion: Swarovski 8x30 CL, by James Petker, Rokslide Prostaff In this review, I will show why the Swarovski Companion 8x30 CL binoculars may be the perfect optic...

Tract Optics, located in Pennsylvania, prides itself on producing quality optics for less. The scopes have no middle-man markup as they only sell directly to customers. The scope I...

Optics for Hunting:  What are We Looking For? by Matt Cashell  So many hunters have picked up a nice binocular in a store, or in the field, or out of...

Review: Novagrade Ranger App By Les Welch, Rokslide Staff This past April, I purchased the Novagrade Ranger App for my iPhone. I'd never used any digiscoping adapters or apps,...

European range-finding binoculars have been, and continue to be, the gold standard for binoculars with laser-ranging capabilities.  The current crop of top shelf range finding binoculars from Swarovski, Zeiss,...