I have seen a lot of hesitation about doing this to your conquest HD's and to be honest I was just in the same boat. These are probably the best glass I will ever be able to afford/ justify so when I was told that you need to pull out the drill and go for it I was a little nervous. Anyway, I decided to take the leap and just like has been said, it was way easier than I thought it would be.
I decided to put up some pictures to help those out that might be on the fence with these binos for this reason.
You start by drilling a small hole in the aluminum center cap. I used a small bit, 5/32" but anything that's fairly small should do the trick.
I was then able to stick a small screwdriver into the hole and easily pop the aluminum cover off. This revealed the plastic threaded cap. I used the pliers pictured to grab the hole and the putter edge and the threaded plastic very easily backed out of the threaded hole.
That's it, then I just installed my outdoorsman bino stud and I'm happy as could be.
I decided to put up some pictures to help those out that might be on the fence with these binos for this reason.
You start by drilling a small hole in the aluminum center cap. I used a small bit, 5/32" but anything that's fairly small should do the trick.
I was then able to stick a small screwdriver into the hole and easily pop the aluminum cover off. This revealed the plastic threaded cap. I used the pliers pictured to grab the hole and the putter edge and the threaded plastic very easily backed out of the threaded hole.
That's it, then I just installed my outdoorsman bino stud and I'm happy as could be.
