Looking for binocular advice! I have vortex 10x42 diamondbacks currently, and now have a 1500 dollar Amazon gift card to use. I also recently picked up some vortex viper hd 10x42 for 300 on Black Friday.
I hunt in Oregon, with a good mix of open mountainous big country, drier high desert area, and coastal thick forest. Archery and rifle. Sometimes on the move and lightweight and sometimes glassing for spot and stalk.
I’m looking for upping my glass to either really high end 10x42s for all purpose use (something like Swarovski SLC or meopta meostars), or adding a tripod and 15x56 bino set up for longer glassing sessions.
Now the question is...do I return/sell the vortex vipers and apply the 300 bucks towards my 1500 gift card for a 1900 budget to work with, and use that for meopta 15x56’s or something similar, or do I keep the vipers for a good pair of 10x42’s, and use the 1500 for a decent 15x56 and tripod?
Basically my options are
1: keep diamondbacks as primary binos and add high end high power binos
2: keep the vipers as better primary binos and add high power binos (just 300 less budget for it)
3: skip high power binos and get high end 10x42’s like SLCs.
No need for spotting scope as my hunting partner has a razor already.
Yes this is first world problems, but with lots of choices it’s hard to say which route to go. I won’t bother getting into which binos to get yet...(sig Zulu 9, meopta, Swarovski, and so on)
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I hunt in Oregon, with a good mix of open mountainous big country, drier high desert area, and coastal thick forest. Archery and rifle. Sometimes on the move and lightweight and sometimes glassing for spot and stalk.
I’m looking for upping my glass to either really high end 10x42s for all purpose use (something like Swarovski SLC or meopta meostars), or adding a tripod and 15x56 bino set up for longer glassing sessions.
Now the question is...do I return/sell the vortex vipers and apply the 300 bucks towards my 1500 gift card for a 1900 budget to work with, and use that for meopta 15x56’s or something similar, or do I keep the vipers for a good pair of 10x42’s, and use the 1500 for a decent 15x56 and tripod?
Basically my options are
1: keep diamondbacks as primary binos and add high end high power binos
2: keep the vipers as better primary binos and add high power binos (just 300 less budget for it)
3: skip high power binos and get high end 10x42’s like SLCs.
No need for spotting scope as my hunting partner has a razor already.
Yes this is first world problems, but with lots of choices it’s hard to say which route to go. I won’t bother getting into which binos to get yet...(sig Zulu 9, meopta, Swarovski, and so on)
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk