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    • Ralph
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        November 8, 2014 at 1:21 am
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        #5257

        I’ve always used a haversack or a fanny pack when hunting or messing about and I use a harness to carry my binocular. Easy access, they don’t swing around and get in my way.

        I’m thinking about rigging out my day pack (Badlands) and giving it a whirl but I’m not thrilled about having my binocs hanging around my neck as it seems my harness straps and day pack straps seem to be odds somewhat.

        Ideas for me and maybe we could all share some methods in the way we carry binocs. My harness works great but maybe not so with back back. I’ll diddle some more tomorrow but now……:?

        I may forgo the day pack for a day trip anyway cause it’s so handy to put trinkets I find in my haversack, but I’m still open to ideas.

      • David Coulter
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          November 8, 2014 at 2:20 am
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          #38860

          My binos (B&L 7 x 26 ) came with a long shoe string sort of strap. It’s nylon and flat, but thin. I wear it over my neck and shoulder and it lies on my side by my belt, out of the way. The nylon strap slides to let me pull the binos up for glassing and then back out of the way. I tie a loop in the strap if I want to wear them closer, up on my chest for birding and scouting. I’ve looked at different harnesses, but it seems like to much extra stuff. dwc

        • James Harvey
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            November 8, 2014 at 5:25 am
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            #39022

            Ralph, if your daybag has a chest strap between the shoulder straps you can basically use your daybag straps as a bino harness. Put your day bag on with chest strap undone, then feed one side of your bino neck strap under your right shoulder strap and back over, pulling the right chest strap through the neck strap.. like this:

            Do the same with the other side and then do the chest strap up, it should end up something like this:

            The only drama is it’s a little fiddly every time you want to take off and put on your pack.

            If I had a proper bino harness I reckon I’d probably just wear that with the day bag over the top, unless your day bag made that uncomfortable for some reason?

          • Bruce Smithhammer
              November 8, 2014 at 11:38 am
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              #39324

              Ralph –

              What kind of bino harness do you have? Is it the Baflands one with the built-in water bladder holder in the bacK? Only reason I ask is that I’ve used a few different harnesses (including the Badlands) and it’s the only one that has ever felt uncomfortable in conjunction with a daypack. If I still owned it, I would cut that thing out so that it lays flat on my back when I’m wearing a pack over it.

            • Ralph
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                November 8, 2014 at 1:39 pm
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                #39449

                Bruce, I’ve been using the Crooked Horn Bino System for years. Got it down to an easy on/easy off, a system figured where it and my GFred type quiver get along great.

                Just pondering a day pack thing.

                Seeing Jim’s rig and thinking on it I’ll try something after while.

                I think I have an idea where I can quickly go in pursuit leaving backpack behind and still have my binos at hand and out of the way.

                Then when I expend all 2 of my arrows in my bow quiver on a futile attempt to fetch one of many turkeys (Note to bow hunters, always carry a blunt somewhere so the lonely empty handed trip back to the re-supply depot will not be so boring) I can return hopefully to where I left the pack.

                No comments on hunter camo orange packs please.:D This is a bino strap thread. 😉

                P.S. Jim is that the one you put the bow in also?

              • Brennan Herr
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                  November 8, 2014 at 2:16 pm
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                  #39500

                  Jim – nice set up.

                  R2- I use the harness style for my binos. I wear them with my day pack that is similar to Jim’s. The bino harmess I have is elastic so I can still pull them up with the pack on. I will take some pics while out hunting today.

                • Ralph
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                    November 8, 2014 at 2:57 pm
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                    #39549

                    I’ll bet this’ll work fine. The chest strap on the pack puts some tension on the elastic bino straps when I raise the glass and helps steady the binos in the wind.

                    Off with the pack and binos are what I’m used to.

                    Look out turkeys!!!!!!!!

                    Ha, they’re probably still laughing at my old arse!!!

                  • James Harvey
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                      November 8, 2014 at 8:07 pm
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                      #39842

                      R2 wrote: P.S. Jim is that the one you put the bow in also?

                      It’s the very same. But I had the bow and arrows inside a big pack liner (think of a light weight dry bag) which was neatly wrapped up like a christmas present and attached to the back of the pack with elastic webbing.

                    • Stephen Graf
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                        November 9, 2014 at 12:49 pm
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                        #40656

                        Jim – Like the idea! Simple and doesn’t need extra stuff.

                        I bought the badland pack with the built in bino straps. The pack itself is great, but the strap thing doesn’t work right.

                        The shoulder straps are the bino harness. Whenever you try to make something serve two purposes, it never does either well. When the straps are tight enough to hold the pack close to your back, you can’t pull the bino’s to your face. When the straps are loose enough to use the bino’s, the pack is hanging off your back.

                      • Brennan Herr
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                          November 9, 2014 at 2:06 pm
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                          #40730

                          That’s it R2.

                          Works well for me.

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