Years ago as new hunters to the vast acres of public land hunting one of our biggest mistakes was not taking the time to put glass on on area prior to charging in to it. Granted back then good optics were crazy expensive and our budgets could not afford it however, the glass we had at the time would have sufficed to give us an idea of what we were walking in to, we just assumed we knew and hence made terrible decisions.
We cannot emphasize enough how important it is to put glass on an area, when all possible, before you walk in. Take your time, look over the terrain closely not only for your possible entrance and exit routes but think about what you are looking at from an animals perspective. Where do they have feed, water and cover? How are they most likely to travel to these three things based on the terrain and, where would their escape route most likely be when pushed. Couple all of this with the basics of wind direction from your start point, wind direction of the thermals and how this will change during the day, possible game sighted and now you can make a reasonable plan of attack with the least amount of spooked game.
Considering quality optics are reasonably priced in comparison to 10 years ago in relation to what you are getting for your dollar we highly recommend getting as good of glass as you can afford. For the last 5 years we have purchased all Vortex optics and have converted all of our
bino¹s, spotting scopes, rifle scopes etc over to Vortex. They build quality products for a reasonable price and you can¹t beat their warranty policy.
