straight or angle lense for your backcountry spotter?

[addicted2hunting]

looking to buy my first spotter for next year and need to know angle vs straight and what specs you guys prefer? I really like the vortex razor what do you guys think...?

[sirmissalot]

I can't stand angled spotters. They have their place but not for me

[addicted2hunting]

I can't stand angled spotters. They have their place but not for me

whats the problems you don't like? more of a neck kink thing?

[Miles]

Straight

[sirmissalot]

Most glassing for me it is just awkward. In the right situation it crates less neck kinking but I don't usually stare through my spotter for hours at a time, generally it's lots of glassing with binos, then zoom in with the spotter or sometimes pick a hillside apart with a spotter but then I move on. It's tough to find stuff sometimes with an angled eye piece and really awkward to me when glassing out a truck window.

[Ccortez]

Most glassing for me it is just awkward. In the right situation it crates less neck kinking but I don't usually stare through my spotter for hours at a time, generally it's lots of glassing with binos, then zoom in with the spotter or sometimes pick a hillside apart with a spotter but then I move on. It's tough to find stuff sometimes with an angled eye piece and really awkward to me when glassing out a truck window.

 

[buckfvr]

Im good with angled except for the window mount..............

[7mag.]

I used to think the same thing, but after getting used to my buddies angled spotter, I hated my straight one. For hunting the back country, angled IMO, is better, but out the truck window, angled sucks.

[MtnMuley]

Straight all the way for me. I've used and owned angled and either application I don't approve/like them.

[carpsniperg2]

I cant stand angled spotters they drive me nuts. I can understand if all you do is look threw a spotter for hours every day then I could see the benefit. I just like them, them always seen awkward to me. Santa just dropped off my new spotter today and the new light binos

[Bean Counter]

Its good to be straight! Mainly for being up high and glassing downhill. 

Mine is angled because that was the one I was able to get for almost half off. I am used to it and though I spend countless hours behind it every year, I'm not about to buy a new one unless I could sell my current one and get into the new one on the cheap.

BTW, you're debating straight vs angled eyepiece, not lens.

[Magnum_Willys]

With my angle swaro I can swivel the barrel and pan across a large area left to right without moving tripod, body, or neck. Can't do that with straight.  Out the window you can also see a wider area - though I would go straight if primarily window scoping. 

[j_h_nimrod]

For most of the backcountry hunting I have done I prefer angled, it is more versatile from multiple angles and less than ideal glassing locations. A lot of time we would leave the tripod and just use a pack to rest the spotter on and you didn't have to be lined up like you do with a straight eye piece. A lot of times it seems awkward to get a straight spotter set so you are not scrunching your neck trying to keep your alignment. Angled can be a pain to get on target but so can straight, only to a lesser degree.

That said a straight is much better for the truck window and if you have a well set up glassing spot where you can get the scope at the right height.

[zwickeyman]

I prefer straight but that might be because its all I've ever owned

[addicted2hunting]

Its good to be straight! Mainly for being up high and glassing downhill. 

Mine is angled because that was the one I was able to get for almost half off. I am used to it and though I spend countless hours behind it every year, I'm not about to buy a new one unless I could sell my current one and get into the new one on the cheap.

BTW, you're debating straight vs angled eyepiece, not lens.

Lol thanks bean... I meant eyepiece! Lol

I don't really need it for the truck as it will be used mostly in the backcountry. By the sounds of it angled is the most versatile as far as setup?