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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Glassing Gear & Techniques

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES

Topic: Glassing gear, challenges, and strategies

Up Front: Enter Timney's 75th-anniversary trigger giveaway here!

GEAR: Buying quality optics:

  • Where does "good" start, pricewise?
  • Should you stretch your wallet?
  • Eye strain and quality glass
  • Where to spend: rifle or bino?
  • A good $$$ bino starting point
  • A good $$$ spotting scope starting point

THE COMPLETE COMPLIMENT OF OPTICS

  • Versatile binocular
  • 8x vs. 10x vs. 12x
  • Capable spotting scope
  • High-magnification optional bino
  • Useful and versatile tripods

HOW-TO: Putting your optics to work in the field

  • Adjusting fit and diopter
  • To grid or not to grid
  • Know your species
    • habitat
    • bedding areas
    • feeding areas
    • travel routes
  • Glass with the sun
  • Glass supported
  • Prioritize high-potential areas
  • Learn the country
  • When to carry a spotting scope
  • When to carry a high-magnification binocular

Submit questions via email [email protected] or on Instagram @backcountryhuntingpodcast

Final thought: Get the good stuff and go to work!

FRIENDS, PLEASE SUPPORT THE PODCAST!

Join the Backcountry Hunting Podcast tribe on www.patreon.com/backcountry

Contribute via PayPal using [email protected]

Contribute via VENMO: @Joseph-vonBenedikt

VISIT OUR SPONSORS HERE:

www.browning.com

www.silencercentral.com

www.timneytriggers.com

www.siembidacustomknives.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine you're sitting on a ridge top overlooking a vast network of canyons and basins,

0:08.0

finger ridges, and way below sage-coveredills, rolling away into the distance.

0:15.0

You know, there are elk, deer, maybe even bear, moose, big horn sheep,, another game within view. But where to look is overwhelming. How to get

0:29.8

started? Before diving into today's topic, which is classing strategies,

0:37.0

we're going to bypass our typical Q&A section

0:41.0

and instead bring you this year's final promotion with Timney Triggers.

0:45.5

Now this has been a tremendously exciting event for me and since Timney was the first

0:51.7

sponsor to come on board the podcast several years ago and express faith in belief in what we're doing here.

1:01.0

Well, this is particularly near and dear to me. Now it's the company's 75th

1:06.9

anniversary and to celebrate we've teamed up with Timney to give away a match grade trigger, any Timney trigger, your choice.

1:16.0

All you got to do is go to Timney triggers.com slash backcountry and enter your name and email and the winner will be notified via email.

1:27.0

This doesn't just give you a chance to win an awesome trigger, it helps me out by letting Timney know that listeners are hearing about them on the podcast.

1:37.0

So if you'd be so kind, do me a huge favor and enter this drawing.

1:44.4

Again, you can do that at W.W. timny triggers.com slash backcountry and I'll put a link in the show

1:51.4

notes. Okay let's dive into glossing strategies for success.

1:58.8

You got to begin at the beginning. To accomplish all you can with your optics, you've got

2:05.8

to have good quality glass. Then you've got to know how to employ those quality optics,

2:11.6

and you've got to have the patience to put that know-how to work.

2:17.0

So let's start with quality.

2:20.0

Where does good quality begin?

2:22.7

Price-wise.

2:23.8

This is a tough question to answer because in optics, as in anything else, you get what you pay

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