And while I am waiting…a question about binoculars?

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011 at 4:39 pm

Question by Newell: And while I am waiting...a question about binoculars?
Just got in from one party....going to another. Waiting for Pavel. We are going as Rocky Horror. I am going as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, and Pavel is going as Rocky. He's Blonde.

I normally never use binoculars. I wouldn't know how. The way I hunt is like this: I have a very dear and close friend who works for the US Forest Service. He does creepy crawly all around the Angeles Forest looking for Meth Labs and Marijuana Farms. He stakes places out, and spends the night.(Angeles Forest is considered the most dangerous National Forest in America..

http://outsideonline.com/outside/magazine/0797/9707dark.html

He actually likes that kind of thing. Anyway, in the course of his travels, he spots deer. He has no interest in deer. I have virtually no chance whatsoever of finding them on my own. He knows my limitations, so he finds a place, usually down wind and above a spot where deer come down to drink in the morning (Angeles Forest is tall pine trees, but dry, dry , dry, it is so steep all water runs downhill). Usually within sixty yards of the deer. I am not such a great shot. Past 100 yards, the deer could stand up and thumb its nose at me, and be perfectly safe. I have gotten my deer six years running. But I notice he is getting a little cold towards me, and I will eventually have to find my own deer. So that brings up binoculars. Not that I know anything about using them, but I guess I need to learn. My father (now deceased) left me a big footlocker of all his hunting stuff. In there were all these OLD books on hunting. Apparently in the 1930's and 1940's, the 7 x 35mm Binoculars was all the rage. I have no idea what everyone uses now. I don't see many 7 x 35mm in the Cabela's catalog. It seems somehow that 8 power is now the big deal. Also the cost of binoculars now seems astronomical. I saw a pair made in Austria or Germany called "Steiner" that were several thousand dollars. Do you really need to spend that? What is a pair of binoculars that I could show up with at a guided hunt, and not look like a total cheapskate or a dork? Pavel claims that Russians make outstanding optics at very reasonable prices. But I can never believe anything he says. He tells me Russians invented Television and the Airplane. My favorite was when he explained to me that Russians invented the Gatling gun. But that the correct name is the Gorshun, because Admiral Gorshun actually invented it. I am not joking. He also claims the AK-47 was a completely original invention and was 100% Russian and had NOTHING to do with the German SturmGewehr 44 (StG44). Which was funny, because the safety on they AK-47 is an EXACT copy of the safety on the Remington Model 8/81. I have a Remington Model 81. I showed it to Pavel. He stared at it for a minute and then said "Ah, you see, Americans copy superior Kalashnikov design." Never mind the Remington Model 8 was made in 1906 and the Kalashnikov was made 41 years later. So I am trying to figure out what binoculars to save up for. I am thinking of saving my nickels, my pennies, my dimes, maybe selling a gun I inherited I don't like and buy a pair of binoculars worth about $ 500. Any ideas?
"First: Dont drink and Post" Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Was it THAT obvious? Ha. Pavel says I get drunk so easily , it embarrasses him. I only drink at like Valentine's Day, Christmas, New Year's and Halloween, so it doesn't take much. Pavel won't let me near a set on car keys on nights like this. Ha.
Oh, wow, my hands are numb.
A song for the kid:

Best answer:

Answer by Tahoeguy
First: Dont drink and Post.

Second: a pair of $ 60 bushnell from walmart has always done fine for me. I wear glasses and like the focus free ones.

Glassing a deer in heavy timber & brush is almost impossible, and spotting one 1000 yards out is close to pointless.

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What to do about a neighbor that surveils my property?

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 9:36 am

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I own a vacant tract of land that we use for farming and hunting. The neighbor doesn't care for us and we don't speak. He has set up a very elaborate surveillence system and watches us. It's pretty creepy. He uses binoculars, drugstore turns all the lights off in his house in the evening if we show up, has outdoor switches and motion trips. It's the weirdest thing I've ever heard of. He and his wife scramble like mice when we come out there to turn on cameras and watch us on in-house monitors. We've seen him creeping around in the bushes and hitting switches that he's set up in strategic areas.

Anyway, it freaks me out. Is there any recourse? I feel like I'm being stalked, but I don't think it fits the technical definition of stalking. We've tried to get a restraining order, but were denied for lack of evidence. What should we do? We live in SC.
Yeah, I know that I have no right to privacy. I just don't like the feeling of being monitored. I was hoping there was a secondary action that we could get him for.

As for protecting us, he wouldn't piss on us if we were on fire. In fact he has set fire to some of our equipment, vandalized stuff, but I can't prove it. Our tractor lights shined on his house once and he tried to have us arrested for being peeping toms! He harrassed us with the cops so much we had to threaten a suite with the police department to get them to knock it off.

He's been more quiet lately, but it'll start again when hunting season opens.
Can't set up our own cameras because he'll destroy them when we're not there or accuse of peeping he's got a kid and we don't...He's used that angle a lot and the cops sympathize with him, or used to anyway.

Tried to "back at you stuff" for a while. Got bored with it.
We used to speak until the crazy came out. He used to brag about doing it to the farmer on the other side of him. He used to also tell everyone that all the surrounding farmland is his. He has a small lot in the middle of it. Just a miserable, angry little man.