I habitually hunt one of two ways. When still hunting—the strategy I generally prefer for elk and Coues whitetail—I stay on the move between cover in slow stops and starts, using a binocular (in my case a superb Swarovski NL Pure 10 x 42 ) to scan ahead and to the side for glimpses of my quarry in order to initiate a stalk. When I’m after mule deer, on the other hand, I pick a vantage point and use a spotting scope on a tripod to scour the landscape microscopically for browsing deer, or the twitch of an antler that reveals a bedded buck. The binoculars don’t have the magnification needed for such long-distance scanning, and a spotting scope i