Originally Posted By: LesSnyder

you might want to see how well your long range scopes do as to gathering light, just in case... regards

I am not really set up for night shooting. I only have traditional scopes. On my long range rifles, one is equipped with a Nightforce NXS 3.5-15x50 with a 30mm tube. Another rifle has a scope with the same size tube and objective, but that scope is a Vortex PST 4-16x50 FFP. My scopes go down in quality from there, the next being a SWFA SS 10x42 30mm tube. That's actually a very decent and solid scope, looking at how little money they charge for it.

The best binoculars I have are an old pair of Minolta 10x50's (over 30 years old!) They were considered good quality back then, and they still are reasonable enough to meet my needs today. If I were to buy new binoculars, they would probably be 7x50's. I can handhold 10x steady enough for most uses, but it's not always easy to do (for me). Not with those large Minolta's at least. I am much steadier with 7x.