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#10MinuteTalk - How to Choose a Spotting Scope

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

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Your style of hunting, terrain, hunt goals, the critters you chase, and more can affect your spotting scope selection. Size, weight, magnification, angled vs. straight configuration, optical quality — Mark Boardman and Paul Neess sit down to give you spot-on information on spotting scopes.

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic. We got a Mr. Paul Nice live and in person.

0:09.0

I'm here again. It's always a pleasure, Paul. It's a pleasure to be here. Mark, I enjoy it.

0:13.0

Before we threw the old headsets on, Paul, you were talking a little bit about a

0:17.0

mule deer hunt that you have coming up. Sounds pretty cool. Let's get me fired up.

0:22.0

One thing that you're going to use in high likelihood is a spotting scope.

0:27.0

Absolutely. That's one of the situations that these guys are critical for.

0:33.0

This is a tag. It takes years to draw, trying to kill a big buck.

0:37.0

You really want that ability to have extra magnification to be sure what you're

0:42.0

going after is good enough. Absolutely. Absolutely. The topic, if you haven't

0:46.0

gathered yet, today is about spotting scopes. It's really backing up and saying

0:51.0

how to choose a spotting scope. We've got different configurations.

0:55.0

We have angled straight. We have different sizes, magnifications.

0:59.0

Tears of quality built in there as well. There's a lot going on. There's a lot that

1:04.0

goes into that decision. Part of that decision, Paul, is like, when does a person

1:08.0

would you say it's like, yeah, I'm going to need a spotter?

1:12.0

That's a good question. Not every hunt would need a spotter.

1:17.0

It depends a little bit if you're focused on killing an animal that's maybe

1:22.0

got a certain size of antler or rack that you want to get where you're really

1:26.0

going to be critical about what you shoot. Sheep hunting is another great example.

1:30.0

For example, if you hunt sheep, you almost always have some sort of

1:34.0

a minimum horn length or curl. You've really got to evaluate that very closely

1:39.0

before you can shoot. There's other types of hunting. I think back to a lot

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