What is your BTX glassing setup?

[Fowl Play]

Already planning for next year where I am going to cash in my elk and deer points on some hunts above treeline. Was able to scout out the location this year and found some good glassing spots that are within 1.5 miles of the truck or trail. Can easily glass some huge country between 1-3miles. Seems like the BTX will be perfect for combing that country to spot animals, but at the longer ranges that fixed 30-35x zoom may prove problematic for judging animals. You guys who use the BTX, what are you doing in this case? Are you packing an extender or a spotter eyepiece and swapping it in the field to judge? Is digiscoping enough to zoom in to judge an animal at that distance (even if blurry?). Also would be interested in what tripod setup you guys are using for say a BTX with 115mm.

 

[kota]

Have not been that impressed with the 1.7x extender. Usually if it’s far enough that the 30x fixed doesn’t cut it, there is enough mirage that it’s hard to see clearly anyway. It also adds length and weight to your setup, which makes it super sensitive to the wiggles. I’m also a little undersized with a slik 624 and va-5 head, which is part of the problem as well.

I still use the extender on occasion, but at 30x I can usually tell if I want a closer look or not and just use that most of the time.

 

[AZxp]

I have the 95mm with 1.7x and ATS eyepiece. I still haven't found a ton of use for the magnifier because its the same effort to swap to an ATS and get a clearer picture. However if I'm spending a lot of time scoring a coues deer, the magnifier has proven quite valuable to have both eyes open at medium distances. Magnifier is cheap and not a terrible place to start but perfect world, spotter eyepiece FTW.
I have had a few friends get the 115 and I dont know anyone who kept it. 95mm is good enough and the 115 is enormous. At that bulk and weight, I think a set of STC or 65mm STS big eyes would be better.