Camofire: NIKON PROSTAFF 20-60x82(?)

[blackeagle603]

Opinions or experience with these as range spotters?

[blackeagle603]

TBTOH made a delivery today. Got home late and well after dark. Unwrapped, assembled eyepiece, fiddled a bit freehand/no tripod trying to resolve some city lights. Looking forward to getiting on my tripod and giving it a workout.

This is a pretty sizeable scope. Definitely at the high end of what I'd want to lug in the field -- and that in limited scenarios and in a daypack. Comes with a nice zippered/snap cover that opens up and can stay on it during use.

"Range report" to follow.

[HTRN]

I can't tell you about the Nikon, but I do know that the Konus is the best of the cheap spotting scopes. They're about 200 bucks for a 20-60x80mm

[rightisright]

I do know that the Konus is the best of the cheap spotting scopes.

Love my Konus.

[randy]

I do know that the Konus is the best of the cheap spotting scopes.

Love my Konus.

Me too

[blackeagle603]

I'm going to have to give some serious thought to a dedicated range/field box for this. Maybe with room for some other goodies. A tripod for sure. Perhaps a camera adaptor if I ever get to figuring that out.

I've been wanting to make a hotwire foam cutter. This could be my excuse over the holidays (as if I don't already have a backlog of projects in the queue).

[Rumpshot]

C'mon, BE603, the canning season is over for now. You should have lots of free time on your hands...

[blackeagle603]

hah! 3 pumpkins left to do. Got ambushed last weekend and failed to finish all of 'em. Then it's onward to meat sauce, turkey broth, rendering and canning tallow, canning some cheap meat.

Hope to have about 70' of 3' retaining wall formed to pour over the holiday break. Maybe pour some steps and a pad for poolside bar depending on prep time -- i hate buying short loads. Goes against my Scot thrift). Won't have time to rent a track hoe and dig the field and lower lot for drain lines. Prolly just have to live with the mess another couple months. The threshold from the lower drive to the road is next major concrete job after the retaining wall. Best do that while it's damp -- easier digging and compacting. That might have to wait for Spring Break though.

In the driveway, the Beetle brakes are grinding a bit and front struts are thunking. Going to swallow my pride and have ball joints on the Excursion done for me.

At the gun/reloading bench if the weather if (Good Lord Willing!!!) foul I can stay in and work on these...
Have a hardwood rifle vise in work, a couple scopes to swap/mount. Would like to finish the M4gery assembly. Still haven't stripped and cleaned or shot my CMP M-1. Still need to finish tweaking the MEC650 for those useless new style AA 2-piece hulls (I'm wrinkling some) and then run a few hours on that press to get ahead on trap/dove loads. At the LNL-AP, several bottleneck calibers are way low or out of stock. They'll have to wait.

Don't get me wrong. No complaints. Got most my real teeth, a wife who tolerates me and looks grand, kids who only talk disrespectful lower than my hearing aides can detect, and even with a couple discs bulging mightly, my back is better and more functional than it's been in 10 years. And now I have a major spotting scope to get an even better look at the birds out in the valley below. LIG!

[Combat Controller]

It's a Nikon, therefor it is probably pretty decent.

[blackeagle603]

Hope get it on a tripod and take a look today. Just took a break from setting retaining wall forms -- tweaked my back (mid-back right at the T/L transition) as we're making to the short strokes at the ends.