Is your scope as good as your binoculars?

[Altitude sickness]

I’m guessing the “reliability” issues named by users are most often due to improper mounting.

We see certain high quality brands mentioned and I have never had an issue with any of them.

The eye can not see the minuscule amount that scope bases and rings can be out of alignment. Left, right, up and down. Front and rear.

If the tube is in a bind and you hog down to 35 inch pounds because the ring manufacture says to torque it to 35. When the the scope company says 25. Or worse you hog down without a quality torque wrench. And the bases and or rings are not perfectly aligned the tube is in a bind,

And the internals of the scope are also in a bind. Now add recoil to that bind. And then wonder why it doesn’t track any longer.

Of course there are defects. And abuse from dropping or impacts. But I’m guessing the guy at the store or at your house didn’t take the time to align and or lap the rings.

The pointer style alignment is better than nothing. But it still relies on your eye to see thousandth's of an inch.

Better is the sliding ring. If there is any bind whatsoever, you feel it. Left right up or down.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Both are superb, Swarovski. It is not worth scrimping on glass.

 

[Rare Breed]

It depends on which scope and which bino we're talking about

Ive got a wide variety of scopes across all of my different rifles, ranging from lower end Leupolds like the VX-Freedom line on some, to higher end Zeiss and Swaro optics on others, and several scopes in between...

For binos Im sort of in the middle of the road.. Ive got a set of Leupold BX-4 Pro Guide 10x42's as well as a set of Zeiss Conquest 10x42's...

So.. in some cases, depending on which rifle I am carrying, my bino capabilities are superior.. in other cases, by scope is superior to my bino... and in a few cases, theyre about on par with each other (for example my Christensen 308 wears a Zeiss Conquest scope.. and as said above I also have Zeiss Conquest binos)..

I asked about taking binos on my hunts and the overwhelming results were yes take them. I have had many top end swaros but two had lateral sighting problems so now I own the top end Leupold all with red dot. I researched binos and one of my cousins who was a navy seal said they used Steiner. I just bought a top end hunter version of them in 10x42 still waiting to get them. Previously I had two swaro binos

 

[LWPhunt]

My bino passion far exceeds my scope passion. But that is due to hunting conditions, and my limit to shooting distances. Have Vortex Razor, Zeiss conquest, Mavens, Leica Geovid B, some in multiples. Leica are range finder, I can't go in the woods without them. Mavens are my favorite glass but I love the Razors for overall fit and function. Scopes I am in the Viper and Burris world, just don't shoot far enough that I can't kill everything I have ever pointed at. Limit shots so I can smell the animal. Sort of. Again to each his own, if your seeing and killing things, who cares. The real money for me is to be spent on a very good spotting scope, that is where stuff goes bad viewing for me.