Best marine binoculars? (1 Viewer)

[Montereyman]

My very inexpensive Bushnell Marine 7x50 were still working perfectly when I gifted them to a friend after my using them for nearly 40 years and that was out on small boats and inflatables in the open ocean. With anti-fog implemented a key problem was eliminated with marine binoculars and this spilled over to the majority of terrestrial ones.

 

[Trinovid]

My very inexpensive Bushnell Marine 7x50 were still working perfectly when I gifted them to a friend after my using them for nearly 40 years and that was out on small boats and inflatables in the open ocean.

Did you replace them with something else, or just stop boating? I keep thinking of buying a porro like the 7x35 I'd been so impressed with on the boat 10 years ago.

 

[Lowcountry]

I'm glad the ex ship driver was amused by pretty much every post in the thread mentioning or recommending 7x50s ...

NB. I'm surprised the USN didn't see fit to issue multi-coated binoculars - then again maybe with all the advanced sensors they have, it wasn't thought necessary?

I served in the post Vietnam era. It was a time of neglect and lack of funding for the military. We deployed overseas without sufficient crew headcount. Underway, double 4 hour bridge watches were the norm everyday. Our weaponry was WW2 era old. I served in the amphibious fleet which was not far from bottom rung replenishment ships for funding priority. Those old single coated 7x50s hung around my neck like cinderblocks the entire watch, but were perfect for my young eyes. I'll always have at least one pair to grab when the time is right.

 

[Montereyman]

The military brass love to buy expensive toys and are not going to be interested in binoculars or for that matter either assault or sniper rifles. The snipers were using Remington model 700 hunting rifles in Vietnam.

Post Vietnam the U.S was deeply in debt which is why Nixon took the country off the gold standard which enabled the goverment to print as much money as it needed.

 

[Maljunulo]

The Remington 700 will do anything a contract-manufactured, so-called “sniper rifle” will do.

 

[Gumball]

These would work pretty good on a boat or maybe a ship! A 20 X 120 Kollmorgen Mark I 45-degree Binoculars. One of the most famous big eye ship binoculars ever made. They have a 120mm aperture with 20x magnification, so they have a 6mm EP.

20 X 120 Kollmorgen Mark I 45-degree Binoculars

Kollmorgen 20 X 120 is known as one of the most massive “Navy Big Eyes” ship binoculars used by the U.S. Navy. U.S. Navy ships would mount a 20 X 120 Big Eye binocular on the deck just off the bridge. The 45-degree lens angle provided ease of use aboard ship where lookouts could spend hours...

www.luxxoptica.com

Those are excellent binoculars. BUT, they would be impossible to use on a small boat.

 

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Those are excellent binoculars. BUT, they would be impossible to use on a small boat.

As they said, in Jaws. We're going to need a bigger boat! 😬