straight or angle lense for your backcountry spotter?

[WAcoueshunter]

when you guys go with 15s is it like a 15x40 or 52?

Thanks for the link also!

15x56.

[jjhunter]

Straight for me - but I don't sit and glass with a spotter.   I sit and glass with tripod mounted 15x's.   When I've located something that requires a closer inspection, I can quick detach my 15s from my tripod and click in my spotter and be on the critter in seconds with no adjustment to my tripod.

On backcountry hunts, I pack both.   I'd rather live without something else than leave my beloved 15s behind.

[addicted2hunting]

when you guys go with 15s is it like a 15x40 or 52?

Thanks for the link also!

15x56.

ok excellent.

[addicted2hunting]

Dude,

I fully support your spotter purchase or some bigger binos.    Funny story everyone...So this september, AD2H and I were on an open sage brush hill side.  We had split up to glass more efficiently.  He radios me and says he's got eyes on 2 bedded muley's. So off I go on a 2 hour blind stalk as he guides me via radio.  I get to where the deer should be and it turns out that in his 8x42's, what he thought were bedded muley's were actually deery looking rocks! 

I'll never forget that.  Funny stuff.

dude those rocks would have been sooooo dead too! haha

[jackelope]

Seems you can always find a straight bodied spotter in the classifieds, there's a reason for that

...because 90% of spotters that are bought new from retailers are straight?

Strait bodied spotters are for bench rests and road hunters so your probably right and there probably pretty popular on this web site. The OP is asking about a " back country" spotter. Try sitting on a 40% grade and glassing up hill from hard right to hard left with out moving your tripod a dozen times. Even if you can after five minutes your neck will hurt so bad you'll hike out sell the thing and buy an angled one. If you just want something to throw on a window mount then yeah, buy a straight one

Wow...

[kentrek]

Seems you can always find a straight bodied spotter in the classifieds, there's a reason for that

...because 90% of spotters that are bought new from retailers are straight?

Strait bodied spotters are for bench rests and road hunters so your probably right and there probably pretty popular on this web site. The OP is asking about a " back country" spotter. Try sitting on a 40% grade and glassing up hill from hard right to hard left with out moving your tripod a dozen times. Even if you can after five minutes your neck will hurt so bad you'll hike out sell the thing and buy an angled one. If you just want something to throw on a window mount then yeah, buy a straight one

Wow...

Only seriously serious hunters use an angle spotter 

I have too much fun to be that serious tho so I prefer straight

[jackelope]

Seems you can always find a straight bodied spotter in the classifieds, there's a reason for that

...because 90% of spotters that are bought new from retailers are straight?

Strait bodied spotters are for bench rests and road hunters so your probably right and there probably pretty popular on this web site. The OP is asking about a " back country" spotter. Try sitting on a 40% grade and glassing up hill from hard right to hard left with out moving your tripod a dozen times. Even if you can after five minutes your neck will hurt so bad you'll hike out sell the thing and buy an angled one. If you just want something to throw on a window mount then yeah, buy a straight one

Wow...

Only seriously serious hunters use an angle spotter 

I have too much fun to be that serious tho so I prefer straight

Only seriously serious hunters have elitist attitudes.

Try pulling off the same maneuver glassing downhill, maintaining a low enough profile to not spook game and without having to climb up on top of your spotter.
Different strokes for different folks. It's got nothing to do with whether or not someone is an awesome enough hunter to be a true "backcountry" expert.

[300rum]

For this reason number one and for a couple other reason's too.  Go with straight. 

I've owned both models of Swaros and much prefer strait, I can line up and lock on critters quicker with it.

[Karl Blanchard]

I think some are confused at what a 40 degree angle is   If your cranking uphill 40 degrees and glassing, your doing it wrong   Also, if you invested in a good tripod and head then you should adjust it to do the work for you, not your neck.

[Karl Blanchard]

another vote for straight from me.  I am a "dead from above" kind of guy so most of my glassing is looking down.  If I'm looking up with a spotter it is a long ways off so the the angle isn't much.  My personal preference, thats all.

[longwalker]

I think some are confused at what a 40 degree angle is   If your cranking uphill 40 degrees and glassing, your doing it wrong   Also, if you invested in a good tripod and head then you should adjust it to do the work for you, not your neck.

40% is different than 40 degree I guess that's confusing to some .And try looking real far to the left with your strait spotter from a sitting position and not move your body. Also looking down hill you just crank the angled eye piece over and your head is basicly staying strait. Pretty funny how offended some get on here. Kinda fun actually

[HardCorpsHuntr]

I've had both too.  Each has its advantages, but for quick acquisition of the intended object, the straight was always been faster for me.  And, while glassing through an angled spotter it is harder to reacquire the find if you readjust yourself and or the spotter/tripod.

Remember, move the spotter to your head not your head to your spotter (sound familiar )     


   

[cbond3318]

I think some are confused at what a 40 degree angle is   If your cranking uphill 40 degrees and glassing, your doing it wrong   Also, if you invested in a good tripod and head then you should adjust it to do the work for you, not your neck.

40% is different than 40 degree I guess that's confusing to some .And try looking real far to the left with your strait spotter from a sitting position and not move your body. Also looking down hill you just crank the angled eye piece over and your head is basicly staying strait. Pretty funny how offended some get on here. Kinda fun actually

I don't look left , I don't look right. I set up, look straight ahead and give a looksy, if there isn't a 185+ buck in my view I jog straight up hill to the next drainage. Repeat until sundown.
Straight for me.

[Woodchuck]

I sprint from drainage to drainage. If you aren't sprinting you don't want it bad enough and you are a low life road hunter with a straight eye piece spotter. Insert extreme sarcasm font here.

[cbond3318]

I sprint from drainage to drainage. If you aren't sprinting you don't want it bad enough and you are a low life road hunter with a straight eye piece spotter. Insert extreme sarcasm font here.

I used to sprint, but I accidently deleted my recording of Cam Hanes' book Backcountry Bowhunting: A guide to the wildside from my IPOD and just can't find the motivation.

 I just ordered the window mount for my straight spotter.