I’m not 100% sure. I’ve just heard that in 2018 vortex switched from being made in Japan to being made in China which would typically correlate to lower quality glass.
I’m in southeast Wisconsin, I just picked up a Nikon ed82 spotter and have a Gen 1 Japanese razor that I’d really like to compare to the swaro Ats and potentially Kowa, Meopta, and zeiss. Does anyone in southern Wisconsin or northern Illinois have an Ats that would be willing to meet up? Or any...
I was looking for this exact thing about a year ago.
The best mix of everything I wanted (relatively light, good elevation travel, good magnification range, budget) was the athlon ares btr 4.5-27x50. I snagged a gen 1 for $400. It weighs 27oz has 100 moa travel and you can still get gen 2s for...
This is important. Every single person is going to be different in this aspect. I shoot my 8.5 lb 6.5 PRC out to 1200 very consistently with a 2.5 pound trigger. I also shoot my cousins 7 lb all in 30-06 out 800. My buddy who shoots just as much as me hates them, he doesn’t shoot a lightweight...
Right now I have
Gen 1 razor 16-48x65
Leupold McKenzie bx-1 12x50
Razor 4000 range finder
Working towards
Swaro Ats 25-50x65
Swaro NL pure 12x42
Tricer AD
Razor 4000 rf
I guess I can see that side of it, 1 point just leads to another change.
I know Utah has become ridiculous. LE hunts are practically once in a lifetime hunts now
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I’m totally against a traditional points system where everyone ends up waiting 15 years for a tag. However I like the idea of giving 1 point to those who put in and didn’t draw the previous year, but cap it at 1 point so you don’t have a situation where 1 guy draws every single year...
A common trend in this conversation has been very obvious support for a random draw.
Why are people favoring a completely random draw as opposed to a points system of any type?
I really appreciate all the advice and insight that’s been given on this thread and it’s been great to see other people benefit from it as well. I hope it can be a good resource to some others in my situation in the future.
I’ve started looking very heavily into purchasing a business. I’ve...
I think the consequence is lower overall draw odds. I was pointing to not the fact that in a completely random draw 1 person could draw every single year for 15 years and 1 could never draw in those 15 years. Just completely luck based. I think giving a single point to apps that didn’t get a tag...
Something I always thought would be good would be if those who didn’t get a tag the year before get 1 point in the next year but it’s capped at 1 point and 50% of the draw go to the 1 point applications and the other 50% are totally random. So it’s still mostly random but still gives the guys...