Comments on: High-Magnification Binoculars for Long-Range Varminting

By: jthyttin

jthyttin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:31:55 +0000

Exit pupil is important always. It’s not just that larger exit pupil gives your eye more light. Even during daylight, when (your) pupil is only 1.5-2mm or something, larget exit pupil gives more pleasant viewing experience. Your faster on the target, have more freedom of movement etc.

By: Bryan Willman

Bryan Willman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:50:52 +0000

If you are going to look at high mags, look at image stabilized binoculars. Canon makes some very nice ones, I think others do as well. It helps a very great deal.

By: Alan Witter

Alan Witter — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:42:45 +0000

I have a pair of the Geovid 10×42 BRF’s and also the Swarovski Rangefinder and have used them side by side ranging prairie dogs in South Dakota for the last three years. On the flat dry grassland, I found essentially no diffence in ranging between the two. Maximum range was seven to eight hundred yards for this use for either one. The Geovids saved one step, but are awfully expensive, and the display is much harder to read than the Swarovski’s.
Just my two cents.
Good shooting.
Alan