Sig Zulu 6 IS Bino vs Vortex UHD 10x42 for chest binos

[nobody]

An IS failure means they’re just regular binos.

That have poor light transmission due to a small exit pupil, poor optical quality compared to standard non-IS binos of the same retail price, are hard to handhold because of the high magnification, have poor handheld ergonomics.

A rangefinder going down just means I get within point-and-shoot range.

 

[swavescatter]

That have poor light transmission due to a small exit pupil, poor optical quality compared to standard non-IS binos of the same retail price, are hard to handhold because of the high magnification, have poor handheld ergonomics.

A rangefinder going down just means I get within point-and-shoot range.

My IS battery dies in the field I pop in another, or I just glass with my RF binos like a schmuck I used to be.

 

[JGRaider]

An IS failure means they’re just regular binos.

Agree, and those particular binos without a battery are the definition of worthless.

 

[muleyapprentice]

I’m going to say from my experience I’ll take the dead IS binoculars over a dead rangefinder every day, I primarily bow hunt or muzzleloader hunt. And you just won’t kill with out a rangefinder. Besides, I have yet to have a rangefinder battery issue and that makes me open to the IS binos. Has anyone here had a rangefinder die unexpectedly?

 

[JGRaider]

2 RF's, both Leupold TBR's. They're garbage. Couldn't disagree more with the rest of your statement.

 

[muleyapprentice]

2 RF's, both Leupold TBR's. They're garbage. Couldn't disagree more with the rest of your statement.

Bummer, I personally haven’t seen any but noted to stay away from luepold RF.

You strongly disagree that it takes a rangefinder to kill with a muzzy or bow?

 

[JGRaider]

Yes. Would it be tougher, yes. "You just won't kill without a RF".....no.

 

[roadrunner]

Agree, and those particular binos without a battery are the definition of worthless.

Put them on a tripod and you won't know the difference...

Have you even used a pair?

 

[JGRaider]

Yes. Ergonomics are horrendous, and optics aren't much better. Besides that they're probably OK.

 

[muleyapprentice]

Yes. Would it be tougher, yes. "You just won't kill without a RF".....no.

Although you are correct because people do kill with trad gear and did it prior to rangefinders, success rates have changed drastically. My success would plummet.

 

[nobody]

My IS battery dies in the field I pop in another, or I just glass with my RF binos like a schmuck I used to be.

Not necessarily just talking about a battery problem, I’m referring more to an electronics failure.

If rangefinder electronics crap out, I just get inside point-and-shoot range.

If IS binos crap out, I’m just left with an optically inferior, ergonomically inferior, high magnification and low light transmission pair of oddly shaped binoculars. Yea I can mount them on a tripod, but isn’t that the big draw to the IS is it simplifies your optics loadout? Everyone I talk to pushes that you don’t need a tripod anymore because the IS is enough stability. so following that logic, my IS binos go down and I can’t get them stable, so instead I’m fighting to try to glass and increasing eye strain because the electronics went down. Oh and don’t forget about the small FOV.

I can get behind RF binos, because their electronics failing doesn’t bring down optical functionality. I’ll never get on board with IS, not in place of regular chest binos. A pair of 16’s in addition to 8’s or 10’s? Sure. But NEVER in place of.

 

[muleyapprentice]

Do you genuinely feel failed IS would hamper your hunt more than failed RF? I’ll take the inferior performing binos and working RF

 

[swavescatter]

I mean, I'm not selling these so I don't really care who doesn't use them.

Just like shooting Tikkas, suppressed, small caliber, match bullets, GPS mapping. Not everyone hunts the same. Cool.