Best low light scope for stalking?
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Koenig
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For most UK stalking and calibres the 8x56 S & B really is point and press. But I don’t do fiddling with turrets and so on that some do. I like to keep things simple. If you know your set up you can compensate adequately with an A7 or A4 reticle (as often found on an 8x56).
boar & deer
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S&b polar is the best but the zeiss victory ht is very close and the Swarovski z8 isnt far away
I can’t agree that an 8X56 fixed power is the best for woodland stalking. Yes, it matches the specification of most binoculars used by stalkers but as some 85% of the deer I shoot in woodland are terminated at under 50 yards (I like to stalk my deer rather than shoot from an elevated armchair) 8-power is simply too much magnification.
Just my view of course and further informed by the reality an 8-power fixed mag scope has its parallax set at 100 yards with no ability to adjust.
K
Just my view of course and further informed by the reality an 8-power fixed mag scope has its parallax set at 100 yards with no ability to adjust.
K
Are you talking woodland or open fields/hill?
Any particular deer species?
Also are you considering first/last light alone, or low light conditions such as under heavy tree cover during the day?
With muntjac in woodland, for example, I'd take a scope with variable zoom and an illuminated reticule over a fixed magnification scope any day. Out in the fields shooting at literal last light, perhaps the 8x56 (ideally with an illuminated reticule) has the edge.
Steff
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When I bought my first rifle and scope it was a Schmidt & Bender 8x56. That was in 1996! And it was by no means the premiere league. The top scopes at the time were by Zeiss and Swarovski. Schmidt & Bender was only second choice. Also a fixed magnification was already outdated at that time. I soon parted with it and replaced it with a 3-12x56 Zeiss VM and later the 2,5-10x50 models.
I have no idea why the Schmidt & Bender 8x56 is so popular in the UK. On the continent I don't know a single person who uses or would use such an antique item.
I have no idea why the Schmidt & Bender 8x56 is so popular in the UK. On the continent I don't know a single person who uses or would use such an antique item.
Fudd value, it's like people saying Ziess BGAT T*P's are great binoculars, or people who use 7X57/6.5X55/30-06.
Sure, some things were made better in the past, but the improvement of lens coatings has made a lot of the old stuff redundant.
You need one of these.....they will see 25/35 mins past the smartie tube owners have gone home sulking...
glasshalffull
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If you can get one the Swarovski 8x50 PF is the dogs B's 
If the point of the post was to highlight the improved utility of recently developed products compared to older ones (with the implication that some people use ‘old stuff’ without objective justification) then the choice of 7x57/6.5x55/30-06 as examples was hardly wise.
You need one of these.....they will see 25/35 mins past the smartie tube owners have gone home sulking...
The key part of the original question was ‘for general stalking’.
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