Spotting Scopes

Spotting scopes are used anytime you need more magnification than a binocular provides. Spotting scopes are widely used for birding, surveillance, hunting, and viewing landscape, wildlife, ships and other distant objects.

Most spotting scopes are labeled with three numbers. The first two numbers represent the magnification range and the last number is always the size of the front lens. For a 15-45x 65mm model, then, you have a spotting scope with a zoom magnification range of 15-45x with a front lens of 65mm diameter.