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The Engage line of riflescopes represents Bushnell’s latest evolution in optical sights. How does it stack up? Richard Mann took a closer look.

Here’s a question for hard-core big-game hunters: How much is efficiency worth to you? Or more to the point: Is the convenience of a rangefinding (RF) binocular worth the extra money and the extra weight vs. carrying separate bino and rangefinder units?

Though the Signature HD Spotting Scope isn’t budget-priced, it’s also not budget-built. It pairs good glass with a feature-packed body, resulting in a strong return to the observational market for the Burris brand.

Mossberg has introduced FLEX Conversion Kits for the Mossberg 500 and Maverick 88 pump-action shotguns in 12- and 20-gauge options. Three conversion kits are available for each gauge, with all required hardware included.

It’s a given that Leica manufactures brilliant sport-optics, and, true to form, the Noctivid (NV) came with labels like “revolutionary” and “all new design.”

Swarovski recently released yet another iteration of its famous EL binocular that doesn’t even try to improve the optics. Probably because it doesn’t have to.

At its core, the Steiner HX series is designed as an olive branch to the U.S. market—it packs high-quality German glass into a package that’s meant to be familiar to the American hunter, and at a price that’s upper-middle class yet not eye-popping.

Years ago Leica’s Trinovid was the binocular dream date. Crisp, sharp, clear, bright. Think of a word that describes a great binocular view and it was lavished on the Trinovid, one of the world’s top binoculars.

Get 'em started with the right gear.