My wife really hooked it up this year for my birthday this last weekend. She picked me up the 8x32 1 mile LRF and the 8-40x tactical spotter for me. I'm not sure what I did to be so lucky!
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Anyways so far playing with the LRF today I am quite pleased with it so far. The bino comes with butler creek flip ups for the front objectives which I found to be a very nice surprise. The build quality on them is very nice. It was very sunny today so I set the brightness to the highest mode on setting 4. Then I configured it for my .308 win which is usually what I hunt with and set it to MILs (I think that is a really neat feature since most binos I have seen only do MOA or inches.) Then I started ranging targets, I was able to pickup a neighbors house at 1833 was my furthest I could get. Ranging trees up on on the hill across the road and I was easily able to range at ~ 1000 - 1300yds. I was able to compare the glass to my Kowa BD-42s which I regard to be fairly decent binos (not the best but pretty solid) and these bushnells are easily as good if not better than my Kowas. For a dual purpose LRF and binos I don't think you will be lacking on the optical clarity.
The spotter is very nice as well, the build quality and feel of it overall is superb. I really like the H32 reticle as its easily usable at all magnification ranges. Optically it looks quite good, very similar to the Leupold Mark 4s I have seen. I haven't had much of a chance to to really play with the spotter since I do not have a tripod to mount it on. I will have to report back on this one after giving it a better once over.
Overall I am impressed by Bushnell stepping up their game, their products seem to be really improving which is nice to see so new somewhat lower cost options on the market.
Anyways so far playing with the LRF today I am quite pleased with it so far. The bino comes with butler creek flip ups for the front objectives which I found to be a very nice surprise. The build quality on them is very nice. It was very sunny today so I set the brightness to the highest mode on setting 4. Then I configured it for my .308 win which is usually what I hunt with and set it to MILs (I think that is a really neat feature since most binos I have seen only do MOA or inches.) Then I started ranging targets, I was able to pickup a neighbors house at 1833 was my furthest I could get. Ranging trees up on on the hill across the road and I was easily able to range at ~ 1000 - 1300yds. I was able to compare the glass to my Kowa BD-42s which I regard to be fairly decent binos (not the best but pretty solid) and these bushnells are easily as good if not better than my Kowas. For a dual purpose LRF and binos I don't think you will be lacking on the optical clarity.
The spotter is very nice as well, the build quality and feel of it overall is superb. I really like the H32 reticle as its easily usable at all magnification ranges. Optically it looks quite good, very similar to the Leupold Mark 4s I have seen. I haven't had much of a chance to to really play with the spotter since I do not have a tripod to mount it on. I will have to report back on this one after giving it a better once over.
Overall I am impressed by Bushnell stepping up their game, their products seem to be really improving which is nice to see so new somewhat lower cost options on the market.
