Optics

"A picture or it didn’t happen..." appears to be the new mantra in the hunting community. Gone are the days of adding a few inches of antler to that...

I have been using Swarovski’s flagship ATX spotting scope with 85mm objective since I originally reviewed it in 2013.  In the meantime, I still haven’t found a better hunting...

Tripods and tripod heads are often overlooked when putting together gear for the season. The unfortunate thing about that is without a sturdy platform, your high dollar optics aren’t...

“Thirty Days to One Thousand”, pretty catchy title right? I thought it might spark your curiosity, but the value of the title ends there. The entire process only took...

Last year while visiting the Maven’s world headquarters in Lander, Wyoming, the Maven guys showed me a prototype of what would become the B.5’s. What excited me about these...

There is a donut hole in the long-range, exposed turret scope market.  The options have grown for the sub-$1000 and the $1500-plus categories, but it's a little thin in...

There are a large number of scopes available in what I will call the Alpha tier of glass so before I get started on this review let me answer...

I am a big fan of spotting scopes and carry one on just about all my scouting and hunting trips. Even when I’m hunting rutting elk with my bow...

Picking out a quality scope to mount on a modern custom rifle can be a daunting task.  We have so many options today that it can become overwhelming.  I...

Back in 2012, I took a Zeiss Diascope 85 T FL spotting scope with me to Alaska on a moose hunt.  At that time, the Diascope had been updated...