Glassing fatigue.

[Gun&BowSD]

Tri-pod 100% for the win. Also I bought a pair of Sig Zulu6 12x42 with the stabilizing tech. They come in various models with 12 being the lowest power. I thought the price was incredible. You feel so dirty the first time you take them out. Like you have cheat codes on. But for glassing, top notch. My fatigue always came from my spotter or wind shaking optics. I had such confidence in those, my spotter held down my cot in the wall tent. I tried the eye patch thing and it still wasnt as good as a shawl draped over
Tri-pod- binos- shawl over your head. Comfortable position

 

[Waugh]

Had lasik back in 2011 and had amazing vision up until about a year ago, now I’ve started having to wear readers for up close stuff and having trouble refocusing after looking through the glass and then pulling back to look at something close. Also noticed a decrease in my quality of low light vision going fast. Getting old sucks! Grey hair didn’t bother me, thinning hair didn’t bother me, but my eyesight issues hurt my feelings. Enough of my whining I have to repeat what many others in this thread have said. Buy the best glass you can get and it does make a difference. Now running NL Pure 14x52’s for my tripod mounted binos and BTX for longer range stuff from the vehicle. Made a big difference in my eye fatigue and trouble refocusing after coming off the glass. Also started a specific supplement for vision health, not sure how much it works but the cost is negligible and I discussed it with my eye doctor first.

 

[elkman224]

Buy Meoptas, dont look back.

 

[Jgill19]

Smelling salts!! lol

 

[Fireflyfishing]

Honestly, better glass may help maybe look at upgrading binos and then the spotter

This

 

[GoZags]

I can't speak to eye fatigue, but often times I happen to find game shortly after taking a nap. I implement this strategy often

 

[RockAndSage]

I can't speak to eye fatigue, but often times I happen to find game shortly after taking a nap. I implement this strategy often

Lol, I was my truck just to make it rain.

 

[Carrot Farmer]

I have a nice carbon tripod and upgraded my fluid head this year.
Aside from swaro's, how do I know I'm getting better glass? I can't currently spend 1200-2500 on a single piece of glass. I thought about bumping from the vortex vulture hd to a pair of vortex kaibab hd's. Would that be much of a change? I think a pair of viper 10x50 or razor (pre hd)

I couldn’t swallow spending the $ either.

Until I was glassing side by side, with hunting buddy w/swaros 10x42, I had 12x50 Razor HD. I was always impressed how he could glass for hours… while 15 minutes for me felt light hours(fatigue). It wasn’t until a defining moment he glasses a bedded bull at 3.5 miles, that I couldn’t find, until I looked through his binos!!!

From that day, I decided to make upgrading my glassing setup a priority for the next season.

I sold my Vortex Razors and RF on Rokslide, scrimped and saved and my August of the following year, I was able to purchase Swaro EL Range 10x42.

It’s now a competition of who can find the first/most/biggest animals. I now know that the biggest limiting factor to “staying behind the glass”, IS THE QUALITY OF GLASS!

Buy once, cry once…


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