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NitroX
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Anyone ever use one of these?
#254251 - 29/09/14 08:24 PM

Perhaps on a Highland Scottish hunt?

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Ripp
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Re: Anyone ever use one of these? [Re: NitroX]
#254286 - 29/09/14 11:45 PM

My grandfather had one---not quite the same length but remember it as a kid--he would spot something in the distance and take it off the fridge to get a better look...

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Re: Anyone ever use one of these? [Re: Ripp]
#254305 - 30/09/14 03:06 AM

Yes, I have a collectors piece that is just over 100 years old. They are extensively used by the professional stalker in Scotland to study the head on red deer before startng a stalk.

Amazing just how far away you can read a cars number plate with such a glass, but with such a narrow field of vision the scope needs to be rested on a knee, rock, stick or similar form of support. None to brilliant in poor light...

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Re: Anyone ever use one of these? [Re: Rigby270]
#254315 - 30/09/14 06:17 AM

I had a leather bound brass one, bought it at an estate auction for something like $20 and later sold for $100. It was 20x and had a pull forward brass lens shade. Quite good optics but narrow FOV and as Rigby270 says it had to be rested on something.
Photos of early deerstalking here in NZ, back when the gentry and nobility of England and NZ were 'guided' by the great resident hunters of the day, show these telescopes being used particularly on the open mountain tops and river valleys of central NZ, for the big trophy red stags of famous English and Scottish herd origin, and in Fiordland for the trophy Wapiti bulls.

The photo below shows one being used by Jim Muir a well known and sort after guide of the day in the early part of last century. The great Landsborough River valley produced many huge Red stag trophies back then.

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Re: Anyone ever use one of these? [Re: eagle27]
#254322 - 30/09/14 07:15 AM

Very nice - still used on the hill today

http://www.graytelescope.com/home/home.html

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