Shooting spotter scope

[Karakal]

Is a 20-20x60 spotting scope suitable up to 300m or can anyone recommend a better on please?

[Geezer]

If it’s a £2000 Swarovski, Zeiss, Leica, etc, yes, of course it will.

If it’s a £25 (inc shipping) thing from China, no it probably won’t.

PS - what is 20-20?

[Karakal]

Gosky 20-60x60 on Amazon spotting scope

[Karakal]

If it’s a £2000 Swarovski, Zeiss, Leica, etc, yes, of course it will.

If it’s a £25 (inc shipping) thing from China, no it probably won’t.

PS - what is 20-20?

Whoops my sausage fingers

[BigDuncs]

Gosky 20-60x60 on Amazon spotting scope

Have you used this one and what resolution is it capable of?

[zpaulg]

Barr and Stroud, good quality around the £100 mark new £50-70 used.

[grumpygit]

Have a look at this it may help you,im looking at spotting scopes myself.
https://www.interneteyes.co.uk/budge...ting-scope-uk/

[Geezer]

Barr and Stroud, good quality around the £100 mark new £50-70 used.

I’m sure they are fine. Honest.

But this is yet another example of a historic brand name being misused.

B&S from the late C19th onward were a world-respected maker of optics. They specialised in things like rangefinders for Dreadnought battleships and submarine periscopes.

Eventually, they became part of Thales Optronics, who are still a world-leading maker of that sort of stuff.

Thales didn’t need the B&S brand name. So they sold it off to a bloke who now uses it to market Chinese-made value optics.

Nothing, I’m sure, wrong with them at their selling price. Just another example of a name historically associated with high quality and actually making their products themselves in the U.K. (Webley, BSA, Enfield, Lee-Enfield...) now being used simply as a marketing tool for products that have no connection at all to those that made the brand famous.

If Holland and Holland went bust, you could buy the brand name and stamp it on SMK air rifles, and you would (legally) be doing nothing wrong.

[Karakal]

Thanks gents for all of your help

[Scott.]

I’m sure they are fine. Honest.

But this is yet another example of a historic brand name being misused.

B&S from the late C19th onward were a world-respected maker of optics. They specialised in things like rangefinders for Dreadnought battleships and submarine periscopes.

Eventually, they became part of Thales Optronics, who are still a world-leading maker of that sort of stuff.

Thales didn’t need the B&S brand name. So they sold it off to a bloke who now uses it to market Chinese-made value optics.

Nothing, I’m sure, wrong with them at their selling price. Just another example of a name historically associated with high quality and actually making their products themselves in the U.K. (Webley, BSA, Enfield, Lee-Enfield...) now being used simply as a marketing tool for products that have no connection at all to those that made the brand famous.

If Holland and Holland went bust, you could buy the brand name and stamp it on SMK air rifles, and you would (legally) be doing nothing wrong.

Thanks for this information Geezer, I almost bought one of these B&S spotters because of the name a few months ago but put it off due to lockdown..
although in hindsight it did seem a bit too good to be true.

the hunt will go on...

[Geezer]

Thanks for this information Geezer, I almost bought one of these B&S spotters because of the name a few months ago but put it off due to lockdown..
although in hindsight it did seem a bit too good to be true.

the hunt will go on...

My pleasure. As I said, they are probably fine. Just Mao&Zedong more than Barr&Stroud.