Standing while glassing

What best describes your glassing scenario.

  • Standing with tripod, binos and angled spotter

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Sitting with tripod, binos and angled spotter

    Votes: 10 34.5%
  • Standing with tripod, binos and straight spotter

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Sitting with tripod, binos , straight spotter

    Votes: 13 44.8%
  • Combination

    Votes: 5 17.2%

  • Total voters
    29

rhsmith3

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I have a way I like to do things, and it has worked but….

I’m always trying to figure out the best way. I sold my tripods and pan heads and am starting over, just want to hear why people do things the way they do.
 
In recent years, my binos are on my tripod more and more and my spotter less. I find sitting to be by far the most comfortable/steady position to glass with both bino(handheld or tripod) or spotter on tripod.

Also prefer a straight spotter. 90% of my spotter useage is duing spring bear. I get as high as I can and glass across/down into large expanses of country. That said, I'd probably prefer an angled spotter if I spent more time low glassing up ( but that's rare for me)
 
Why else do you like the straight spotter? I have always leaned towards angled mostly because I can get away with a shorter tripod.
 
I run straight spotter so I don’t have to mess with my tripod to switch. And, I sometimes run both on a bar with them pointing at the same thing.

I am sitting during the day when reallly picking apart each bush and shadow.

I am standing a lot when moving, covering ground, or terrain dictates.

I also shoot off my tripod. But, I worked to get my total weight down, making some compromises. Now I have Sig 10x RF binos, Sig16x IS binos, and Kowa 554. I am only ounces more than my prior set up. The goal was to find a way to keep my Kowa in the bag for more trips.
 
Sit 90% of the time. I really only stand when I have too. I find it more comfortable and steadier for me.
 
I sit 99% of the time and use my binos 99% of the time. The spotter only comes out when I need to verify something that looks like a deer or try to put antlers on a deer that I spot a ways off. I currently have an angled spotting scope but I really do not like it. As herinaz mentioned, it would be a lot easier to switch between binos and spotter if I had a straight spotter.
 
Hunt dense northeastern forest so nearly all bino work is standing. Don’t own a spotter though one would be handy at the range.
 
Sit majority of the time with binos on a tripod. The spotter comes out when I want to film something with it. Still trying to find a scope adapter from Phoneskope that will work with my 10x42 Geovid Pros so I don’t have to pack the spotter.
 
I would think it would vary a lot by species and time of year.
Archery elk
mostly glassing with chest binos standing, scouting or occasionally when hunting 15x binos usually standing on a tripod, no spotter
Elk rifle/muzzy youth hunt
mostly standing, occasionally sitting with 15x on tripod, angle spotter
Recent barbary hunt
mostly sitting with binos on a tripod, angle spotter, moving along ridge standing with binos on tripod
 
I would think it would vary a lot by species and time of year.
Archery elk
mostly glassing with chest binos standing, scouting or occasionally when hunting 15x binos usually standing on a tripod, no spotter
Elk rifle/muzzy youth hunt
mostly standing, occasionally sitting with 15x on tripod, angle spotter
Recent barbary hunt
mostly sitting with binos on a tripod, angle spotter, moving along ridge standing with binos on tripod
^^^^that, it depends on the hunt. In AK on the tundra I stood and didn’t need more than 10x. Elk, lots of handheld 10 scanning inside 1000 and 16 on the tripod standing or sitting out to a couple three miles. Coues, sitting/standing with 16 and spotter from the same point, moving 30 to 80 yards at a time to get a new vantage point looking into the shadows.
 
I run a straight spotter. I am usually seated while "glassing". I am 6'6" so if I am standing I stick out pretty good. My RRS TVC-34L gets tall enough for me to glass standing if I wanted to though.
 
I run a straight spotter. I am usually seated while "glassing". I am 6'6" so if I am standing I stick out pretty good. My RRS TVC-34L gets tall enough for me to glass standing if I wanted to though.
I am 6’2” and sometimes feel like I stick out too much when standing too. The good thing is, our sitting is almost as high as some standing, lol… more for you.
 
I spend 90% of my time sitting glassing but my tripod can get long enough for me to stand up fully as a change of pace.
 
Sitting with binos on the tripod is how I glass the majority of the time. Straight spotter only comes out to get closer looks at things that look like a piece of a bedded deer in thick stuff or to verify size of bucks at longer ranges. I used to stand for a lot glassing but that seemed to be more scouting when I was covering a lot of ground looking for animals or in new areas so I could hit a lot of a new drainage. Now most of the time I have A,B and C picked out for glassing locations ahead of time from e-scouting. Then I can go right to that spot, tuck under a tree or in some rocks and glass away and really pick it apart.
 
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