Yeah, I have been meaning to come back here and do an update after my Montana hunt.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Golden Ring. REALLY glad I got it. We hunted over there in extreme conditions (-20 with the windchill, snowstorms, ect..) and the scope performed magnificently. Both Tom and I spotted our bucks through the scope, and even in the horrible conditions were able to accurately judge our animals at a distance before begining the stalk.
We spotted Tom's buck at over a mile across 2 canyons and I called him a 180" deer before we began the stalk. On the ground he taped out at 174 5/8. Spotted my buck at about 600 yards in a straight up snowstorm (my eyecups had filled with snow, so I couldn't see with the binos (left the caps off
). Tom whipped out my spotter and judged him a "shooter" through the blowing snow. On the ground he taped out at 160 2/8.
Aside from those bucks, we also saw two more "shooters" that we couldn't close the deal on, and got to field-judge lots of 3x3s and 4x4s that we chose to pass on. Lots of use out of the scope, and like I said, I LOVE it.
I would tell anyone that can afford it, to buy one. Here's a few pics.
