Who doesn't use Bino's?

[Captain*Kirk]

Of course my eyesight isn’t what it used to be!

All the more reason to have them.

[RAU]

I carry 10x Nikon binos in a chest harness on every hunt. Every time I’m in the woods for anything actually. The chest harness is the key. They stay tight against your chest and don’t flop around or interfere with bow string at all. Don’t even know they are there til I need to look at something. I think the perfect bino for me here in Pennsylvania would be a pair of 8x Swarovski but they’re way out of my price range and not in my near future!!

[BAK]

Can't figure out why so many have to explain why they do use them on a thread asking who doesn't

[OkKeith]

All just part of the conversation...

OkKeith

[TOEJAMMER]

Never without them.

[TOEJAMMER]

Never without them.

[hawkeye n pa]

Thanks OkKieth and others I will try that.

[Captain*Kirk]

Can't figure out why so many have to explain why they do use them on a thread asking who doesn't

Because people who agree with the OP's point of view will go out of their way to explain why they agree with the POV and it never hurts a conversation to hear opposing viewpoints, is all. When one posts a blanket statement, they should expect both opposing and concurring answers .

[LC]

I'll give my opinion of why those who do and don't both responding. I USE to never carry binoculars. I figured if I'm hunting with a homemade stick bow that I'll never shoot beyond 20 yards why do I need them. I NEVER used them for decades. I finally bought a quality pair and now I feel naked without them. To get a closer look at the buck that just wouldn't come close. To checking things that just doesn't look right at a distance. To watching a bob cat close up. To watching birds that I haven't seen before. As for those who say they once spooked a deer by using their binoculars, yeap and I'm sure I can remember a time or two I spooked a deer by getting a candy bar out of my fanny pack. I still carry food and a fanny pack. I could go on. But that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Terry Green]

I only use them on very rare instances....

 Here in the East you really don't need them....

I can't remember anyone wearing them in my hunting circles growing up....

Actually, I never owned a pair until I went out West in 2006.

[Adirondack Bowman]

would never hunt without them.

[Holm-Made]

I hardly ever use them.  The only pair I have is a 6x that I bought used to have something for when I go antelope hunting or check the fields from my truck.
Growing up in the big woods of northern MN nobody I grew up used them.  Even now I really do not enjoy looking through magnification as it fatigues my eyes. 

[mnbwhtr]

Just got in from stand, left in a hurry and forgot my binocs at the house, saw several deer but it's more fun when you can bring them in close with binocs. I felt naked, won't forget them tomorrow!

[Krex1010]

Always have my binos.....the biggest reason is it makes telling if a buck is legal so much easier. As the years go by those brow times are getting harder and harder for me to see without some assistance.

[Hanktownpete]

I love to have my binos with me. I use bushnell 7x26 as they are really easy to pick up your subjects with. I have found them to be less durable than I’d like so this year I picked up a Vortex 8x32 and love them. I use a leather shoe string for a strap so I can sling it over my neck and shoulder. Easy to bring into action and stays out of the way when needed.
 I usually don’t scope deer coming toward me as I want to be as still as possible. I do like to put the optics on the deer to see where I hit or if I hit and also to look for the arrow to see if it picked any color. I also like to do a little birding along the way. If you’ve read Fred Asbell’s ground hunting book you see what he thinks of binos as a hunting tool. 

[The Vanilla Gorilla]

Rarely use them.  Dont need em while I'm in my stand or blind.  I do keep em in my truck tho. And have used em to pick apart the brush for a downed deer.

[maineac]

I own bino's but rarely take them. I might carry them more if they were 8's rather than 10's. In the thick evergreen filled forests I hunt the I rarely see a deer before it is in range or close enough to pick up my movements. I did bring them a couple of weeks ago on my last hunt to glass for bedded deer as I approached the area I was going to set up in. When I stopped for the first glassing session three deer blew out of some evergreens to my right. Even with the binos I wouldn't have seen them. If I walked by they might have stayed bedded and shown up later since the farmer walks the woods all the time and does not disturb the deer's movements. Maybe some day I will become a convert.

[oz]

Just now trying to get used to them, got a fair set and a nice chest carrier in the last two years, but find myself not carrying them.  Very seldom am I ever more than 50 yards from any animal.  But There have been a couple of times I wished I had them, was in the cabin getting ready to go hunting and had a nice buck cross the meadow 400 yards off, I could see antler, but didn't have the bino's.  I also pulled into the cabin one afternoon and caught 6 wolves in the meadow about 300 yards out and wished I had bino's to get a better look.

oz