Thread: Spotting scope - straight bs angled

I can see the angled being better for a shooter that stays on his rifle and turns his head to the side for the spotting scope veiw etc , Its generally accepted that the civie tgt shooters prefer the angled spotters , and its generally accepted that the military prefer the straight spotters .

I have a Zeiss Spotter60 , 20-60x72mm straight waterproof spotter , it has a reticle in the FFP posn , so its constant thru out the mag range , to start with I was using it with master eye only , and had trouble getting quickly onto tgt , and had thought about mounting a red dot sight as a quick sighting system like a finder scope on a astro telescope , but never got around to it .

It has taken sometime , BUT now I use it both eyes OPEN , and by doing this both images overlay them selves , and I can use the reticle center marker overlay on my non-master eye , and use that image to move the spotter on to any point I wish to look at , and I am finding its very quick and instinctive , and accuracy is very good , and the more I use it , the better I am getting .

This is with the spotter on its lowest setting , ie 20x .

Like all things , if you can try before buying .