RE: How many guys "glass" and how much?
This is probably the most under utilized technique in the bow hunters tool box. I spend hours,sitting in my treestand,glassing my hunting area, which is a river bottom used as a bedding area. Make no mistake, while I am glassing, I am still very alert with my ears and eyes on anything close around my stand. Starting in the early season I will glass for bucks using a certain area and watching for river crossing areas that can be used as ambush spots. I am a trophy hunter, so what really interests me are the 150 class bucks that start showing up around the first signs of the rut. After spotting them and deciding on an ambush spot, then I will hunt from a ground blind location in an attempt to arrow a big bruiser that otherwise had no idea I was around. Glassing is a great, scent free, way to get up close and spot some real big bucks. More bowhunters should be using this tool!