Ep. 137 | Glassing 101 – More than Meets the Eye

Vortex Nation Podcast

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

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🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

“Glassing” is a term tossed out there by so many hunters, it almost might trick you into thinking it’s a simple concept, but there’s really so much that goes into every facet of spotting game. What techniques and specific strategies are involved? How about the gear selection behind setting up the best glassing suite of optics and related accessories? Scanning, using a grid system, where to look, which magnification to use, when to bust out the spotter vs the binoculars, etc. Ryan, Mark and Jimmy discuss these topics at length, and admittedly, there’s still much more we could cover in the future. Let us know what you’d like to hear for future glassing conversations! Check out "10 Tip to Up Your Glassing Game": https://vortexoptics.com/blog/10-tips-to-up-your-glassing-game.html As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on Instagram @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and Good Food. What's up everybody? We are here with Ryan Muckern across the table from us and there is a lot of glass between
0:24.9	Mark, myself, and Ryan. We're gonna be talking about glassing here and specific
0:31.4	to more of the hunting side of things and maybe some tips tricks
0:37.1	things you might not have expected perhaps if you're headed on on your first big glass
0:41.7	intensive hunt and hopefully this will help you out.
0:45.9	Even those of you who have been hunting for quite some time, it's surprising how much skill
0:52.1	slash technique and different
0:55.7	different theories there are, you know, out there
0:58.2	that go into glassing.
1:00.2	I know I always, I always underestimate its importance or I underestimate the amount of technique that goes into it.
1:08.0	And then you get out there and you find yourself thinking, immediately trying to find more efficient ways of doing it and stuff
1:16.0	like that. So first off though why don't we discuss what hunts you guys think are
1:22.3	what we would call glass intensive hunts?
1:27.0	Out right. Anything out west.
1:30.0	Anything pretty much altogether. Big vast expanses it well okay not to put the guys that do a lot of Midwestern hunting in to a pigeon hole here you do glass a lot when you're in the deer stand so I mean a big proponent of
1:44.8	carrying binoculars with you when you're out hunting in the deer stands.
1:48.0	You know if you're doing some long distance pre-season scouting or even some you
1:52.1	know scouting during the season some observation type
1:55.0	stuff trying to figure out how to kill a deer where you know a deer might be that you
1:59.8	want to go after but this is the time here and driving around this weekend but
2:03.8	the trucks on the side of the road with spotters hanging out the windows
2:06.7	class and into beanfields mid-July yep everybody's out looking for those
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