I've noticed on this site as well as others that many bowhunters say they rely on their optics to successfully hunt or locate elk. My question is why?? Now unless you're trophy hunting in an LE UNIT why is it you place so much importance in a heavy object around your neck! Ruling out road hunting of course!

The reason it strikes me as odd and to question ones motives is I or the different hunting partners in our camp do not use them. Yet we harvest more than our share of elk everyear. Sure we have areas we can see elk a half mile away or several hundred yards away at a time, but many areas are heavily timbered and vision is very limited. We've found that the use of "blind setups" when elk aren't vocal are awesome. We've also found that when elk are vocal the use of calls are unbeatable along with strategic methods.

Now how many bowhunters here can attribute a harvested elk by the use of binos? In most cases you can tell the size and maturity of a bull by his sound, within reason of course. Now I can see the use of good optics by rifle hunters of course, but I question their use and annoyance for bowhunters! Not trying to cause a debate, but I fail to see the real necessity here.

Please enlighten me!!! Thanks--ElkNut1