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    Vortex Triumph HD 10x42 Binocular Review ***Updated 10/16/23***

    Sportsmans.
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    Less Physical Hunt ??

    I love hunting goats and think that they are amazing animals. Most coastal boat based hunts are tough adventures where you earn that Billy by busting through devil's club up dried creek beds and avalanche chutes. However, the op wanted opinions of what the easiest hunt would be. I didn't mention...
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    Vortex Triumph HD 10x42 Binocular Review ***Updated 10/16/23***

    Ok. They came in today. They are a bit sketch. Focus is weird. Not much eye relief but they are better than the cheap Nikon aculons.
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    Vortex Triumph HD 10x42 Binocular Review ***Updated 10/16/23***

    So I own and use all manner El10X42s, NL12X42, Victory 10X42s, Zeiss 8X30 SFLs and all manner of Vortex UHD binoculars. I get the greatest satisfaction from selling a pair of low end binoculars to the dude who is barely getting by working 3 part time slave jobs and has a wife and three young...
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    Less Physical Hunt ??

    Aaron Bloomquist from Alaska Outdoors Unlimited has a registration goat hunt where the horses haul you up to the goats. I have heard that if you go for Goats with Kodiak Combos in February that on some occasions you can shoot from the boat but consider that you might not get out because the...
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    AK gear gems?

    Smoked Salmon strips Freeze Dryer Apocalypse Design Musher's hat flagging tape moth balls for camp and bears a golf ball for feet a non-odor antiperspirant for feet Vortex socks- the best product that they make. An ultralight bivy for my sleeping bag power naps
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    Alaska unit 13 caribou closure

    So the bios did some surveys and found the central Nelchina herd is almost gone. Just a suspicion that they are not and have broken into about 15 different little mini herds that range from Dust Creek clear up to Chistochina and into the Western side of Denali National Park. The Bios in there...
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    Sheep Packing List

    I hunted a section of the Chugach for three years that is east of your location. I got down to taking an unnamed ultralight tent because it was unbelievably light and pretty bomber if it is staked down. Then one season we got hit with a real mountain screamer(I was perched right under two 42...
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    Moose hunting 101

    Find a copy of the Moose book by Samual Merill. It is an old book but very much the classic when it comes to moose hunting.
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    Sheep Packing List

    You can encounter 60+ mph winds from several directions in a storm up there and it can dump a foot of snow in August. The golden rule of hunting with your spouse is that she needs to be comfortable at all times because an expensive tent is cheaper than a divorce. Would you take that tent up...
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    Sheep Packing List

    Take a real tent and take the weight penalty for it.
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    Please do a valid Review on Swarovski NL

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    Please do a valid Review on Swarovski NL

    Eye placement and adjustment is key on NLs. Notice that I told OP that NLs are not for the timid. You have to learn how to use them and then they are on a different level. I still would choose them over any other binocular. I am interested on how Leica and Zeiss are going to respond. I am also...
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    Please do a valid Review on Swarovski NL

    Secret Spot. Yes. On the NLs there is a part of that strange raccoon ring in the field on NLs but I have found that it appears on a case by case basis and there is variation on this within NL binoculars. The center of the optical field and the outer edge of the field is slightly sharper than...
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    Please do a valid Review on Swarovski NL

    So you have rode through this thread so far and are wondering what I really think of the NL Pures. They are the best binocular ever made. I have not have had the opportunity to look at the 10X32 or 8X32 NL Pures. I do not like the diopter system that is incorporated in the NL Pures. I think...
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    Please do a valid Review on Swarovski NL

    I have loved Zeiss products for most of my life. They have a sharpness that I have found that I could use for glassing and often find game that others had to borrow my optics to find. I still am a very solid Zeiss Fanboy. I have only slowing been moving and experimenting with Swaro and Leica...
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    Please do a valid Review on Swarovski NL

    Drum Roll-- Alphas. It might be good to start with the Swaro SLCs. The revised SLCs are extremely great binoculars. They let in light and provide super color rendition. They are incredibly sharp. People with perfect vision and young eyes will prefer SLCs to any Swaro product with a caveat that...
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    Please do a valid Review on Swarovski NL

    I am sorry if I skip over Kowa Genesis, GPO, Maven, Tract, Steiner, Dr. Optic. I trust the information that I hear about the quality of Maven and believe that they offer some amazing products. I hear more about Tract riflescopes. Steiner seems to put most of their energy in project development...
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    Please do a valid Review on Swarovski NL

    The Nikon HG 10X42 binoculars have field flatteners that provide that same immersive view that the Zeiss SF, Swarovski Swarovision and even the Noctavids have field flatteners. These are an additional six slim lenses that create an effect of taking the sweet spot in the center and spreading it...
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    Please do a valid Review on Swarovski NL

    I would like to start with the least expensive binoculars that I think you could reasonably hunt with. I presently don't have a pair because I gave my only pair to my uncle who was killed in a freak accident so I believe that my aunt probably uses them to look at birds at their lakefront home on...

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