At the moment I have a cheap ( bought of ebay ) scope it has a 60mm objective lense and variable magnification up to 40X. Problem is that the optics are poor although you can see arrows at 90m if the light is low or there is a lot of arrows in the boss it is very hard to make out my own arrows, I have tried some other scopes and they are a lot better, Other people must of had this problem so lets have your recomendations.
1:- good optics
2:-rugidnesss
3:-Water proof
4:-cost
Next what tripod do you use with it
1:- rigidity
2:-weight
3:-max height
4:-cost
your help is apprieciated
Nick:cheerful:
Hi Nick
Interesting that you should bring this topic up.
The first outdoor shoot of the season brought it home to me that I needed to start using a scope on the line especially for the longer distances (8x40 bins were good enough in the past not worried about line cutters just that the arrows are landing more or less where they should). By my calculations it cost me 30 points plus thinking that arrows were in the gold only to find great groups in the Blue at 6 O'Clock. Fortunately my Dad goes bird watching in the winter and has loaned me his scope and tripod for the summer. The Scope is an 80mm Opticron and the tripod is a Velbon CX680.
Tonight I used the scope for the first time.
The scope is great and the Tripod very stable but you cannot tilt the fixing so the eye piece sticks up in the air. So point 1 make sure the fixing head can tilt the right way for right handed archers some don't.
I am told that the scope has very good optical quality but at even 100yards it needed only 20x to spot all the arrows infact the more magnification the harder it was to distinguish colours although you could spot line cutters very easily.
The scope is now going to have to form part of my shot routine, for shoots where you cannot leave the scope on the line what do people do to save time setting up each time, I was thinking of target pins in the ground.
Before being offered my dads scope I had started looking around for scopes and tripods and the 2 tripods that surprisingly seem to do the job are the Velbon CX440 (?20) CX540 (?30)
Finally found this scope at Cameras2u.com - Centron 20-60X60mm Waterproof nitrogen filled for only ?69.99 Jessups sell it for ?199. Not the best optical quality but better than most on ebay and waterproof.
TBH if I had the spare cash and nerve to ask permission from my wife I would buy the Olivon 80mm & tripod on our website if anyone was thinking why I was trawling websites for a scopes and not putting my money where my mouth is:cheerful: