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#10MinuteTalk - Do Monoculars Need More Love?

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

You don’t need to be a cyclops to enjoy all the benefits a Monocular offers. We grab resident optics expert and coinsure Michael McDowell to break down these handy optics and all the great performance they offer. Light, fast, and mechanically simple, monoculars are easy to carry and always at the ready when you need them!

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here with our dear friend Mr Mike McDowell to talk about

0:05.8

Monoculars the optic that doesn't really I think get enough love. We've talked about binoculars

0:11.5

We're talked about rifle scopes rangefinder spotting scopes get talked about binoculars, we've talked about rifle scopes, range finders, spotting scopes get talked about.

0:15.3

We've even talked about, there's all kinds of things glassing.

0:18.0

And binoculars hasn't been brought up yet.

0:20.9

Mike, you're sort of our resident observation optics expert when it comes

0:25.2

to binos, spotters, and these things. You know a lot about them because you've used a ton of them and so

0:31.6

yeah that's why you're here. explain monoculars to us they're

0:35.3

pretty simple are they not you're you're right they only get about half as much

0:39.7

love as a binocular sorry that, that was really lame, wasn't it?

0:44.0

Well, no, it was good.

0:46.0

I enjoyed it.

0:47.0

And you know what, and I would argue they don't even get half.

0:49.0

Probably not.

0:50.0

He's probably right.

0:51.0

They don't.

0:52.0

Yeah, I mean, really, they're half of a binocular.

0:55.0

They don't have a hinge, a bridge to go to another optic,

0:59.5

but a binocular is essentially two of these things connect together and aligned so that you get stereoscopic vision.

1:06.7

This we would call stereoscopic vision is a thing, is a term.

1:10.3

Would this be monoscopic?

1:12.1

Correct. This is monoscopic vision.

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