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What is your preference and why?
Straight or angled?
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Broz
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Have owned and used both. Angled, by far. I like it better from the bench next to me. Sitting on a hillside with it below me glassing and especially from a truck window to get far left or right viewing
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Angled. I've had both, and angled seems to gives me less neck strain with extended spotting sessions.
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Angled has always been more comfortable to me.
Listened to a podcast the other day explaining why straight is better than angled. Their reasoning was from using the tripod with binos and when you found something that needed a better look, you could slide the binos off and the spotter on. The idea is you won’t have to relocate what you’re looking at. The spotter should be pointed at the same spot the binos were. This was the first time I’ve considered getting a straight spotter.
Listened to a podcast the other day explaining why straight is better than angled. Their reasoning was from using the tripod with binos and when you found something that needed a better look, you could slide the binos off and the spotter on. The idea is you won’t have to relocate what you’re looking at. The spotter should be pointed at the same spot the binos were. This was the first time I’ve considered getting a straight spotter.
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That's interesting. I go from my binos on a tripod to and angled spotter all the time while glassing big country. Never noticed any problems at all.
Good set of bino's on a tripod are my go to I should add.
I think when glassing bucks in the big brush patches, it may be an advantage when there is no landmarks to reference too. Other than that, have always been able to pickup what I was looking at in the binos in the angled spotter.
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Good point
Back when I was working, we did quite a bit of surveillance work. I used a straight scope. However, when at the range and PD fields I prefer the angled one. I still have my straight one, but those surveillance days are long behind me now.
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Angled here also. It helps if you get in a situation where you have to spot up hill, also you also don't have to have your tripod as tall with an angled spotter which helps with stability. Its also nice if you are prone on your rifle you can set it up next to you and use it, I shoot this way in LR F-OPEN and I set the scope up to read mirage, it works great.
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