I bought a stainless 30-06 I was gonna make a 35 whelen. Then the 30-06 shot cheap ammo under and inch. Now I have three 30-06s and I picked this up. Fairly popular in Europe and at the time I thought reloading components would be easier to get than 35 whelen. I hunt with a couple brothers whole...
I hunted bear with him in 2017. It was my first outfitted western hunt. I had no other experience to compare it to. I did see forty bears and zero elk in my five days. My buddy just shot a lion with him last month.
I’ve had 11x45 b2s for 3 years. They are great out west on an elk hunt in CO and bear hunt in MT. They are a little bulky in the whitetail stand back east, but they still work.
I have never compared them to the sig binos but I definitely like them better than my buddies 10x42 vortex razors.