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Jay Scott Outdoors Western Big Game Hunting and Fishing Podcast

270: Swarovski BTX 65, 85, 95MM Field Testing Episode with Cody Nelson of the Outdoorsmans

Jay Scott Outdoors Western Big Game Hunting and Fishing Podcast

Interviews, Tactics, Gear, Field Judging

Sports & Recreation:outdoor, Outdoor, Sports & Recreation

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jay Scott field tests the Swarovski BTX 65, 85, 95mm with the 32X82 Kowa Highlanders, the 40X Doctor Optics, The 65mm Twin Swarovski Spotters with the guys from the Outdoorsmans in Phoenix, Cody Nelson and Jake Rush. In this episode we discuss: field of view, performance in low light, light transmission, overall perception of each binocular, pros and cons of the 65, 85 and 95mm. If you light long range glassing this is a must listen to episode. www.JayScottOutdoors.com Instagram @JayScottOutdoors http://gouldsturkeyhunt.com/ http://www.colburnandscottoutfitters.com/ For more on Outdoorsmans https://outdoorsmans.com/ Sponsors of the JSO Podcast goHUNT.com/Insider Get $50 KUIU gift Card when signing up by using "jayscott" promo code www.goHunt.com/jayscott http://www.kuiu.com/ http://www.phoneskope.com/ Use "jayscott16" promo code to get 10% off all products http://outdoorsmans.com/ Use "jayscott" promo code to get 10% off all Outdoorsmans Products

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0:00.0

Guys, welcome to the J. Scott Outdoors podcast. Today's episode is going to be a little bit different than normal.

0:08.0

I was able to spend some time with the Sirovski

0:13.4

I-piece with Cody Nelson and Jake Rush of the outdoorsmans and we met

0:22.2

early one morning in Central Arizona

0:26.1

where we could go and actually glass a hillside

0:29.0

where we would actually see some deer.

0:30.7

We went to a real popular spot where you know you can go and see you know 10 15 20

0:36.8

deer and we we wanted to be able to test the different optics from a standpoint of, you know, at first light when you can barely see all the way through kind of the light spectrum, you know, till 9 o'clock in the morning or so and the optics that we

0:56.1

tested were the doctor 40 by angle or 40 by 80 super wide angle the Koa Highlander 32 by 82, the 95 BTX, the 85 BTX, which is the

1:11.2

Sharovsky BTX, which is the Serrovsky BTX, the 65 BTX, and then my twin

1:16.9

Scler S Srarovsky STS 65 millimeter 25 by 50 by 65 twin spotting scopes and then the STX which is the

1:28.2

spotting scope that I have which is the 95 millimeter it's the 30 power to 70 power

1:36.7

spotting scope.

1:37.6

And so we had all of those out there

1:40.4

and were able to test the BTX compared to the Coa's and the doctors and against the

1:48.0

STX 95 spotting scope as well and my twins. So it was a real good test to be able to you know

1:57.3

actually look at deer, you know attempt to glass deer up on the hillside find them in each one of the

2:05.6

binos and then kind of compare you know the viewing pleasure if you will of each

2:11.7

bino I had to leave, I had to leave and go to church mid-morning on

2:19.4

Sunday, so when I left, Cody and Jake were going to do a field of view test and they have recently reported the findings on the outdoorsman's dot com blog and it's called

2:32.1

expected versus perceived and I thought I would go ahead and and

2:36.9

give you this chart you can also go on their blog and see this chart they created now. So they were actually testing

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