Shooter's Bible Guide to Optics

Shooter's Bible Guide to Optics
Author: Thomas McIntyre
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1620872862

One of the Shooter’s Bible 2018 series Gives advice on using pursuit binoculars, a pursuit rangefinder, a pursuit spotting scope, and more Useful for experts and beginners Whether you are a hunter, guide, target shooter, tactical user, sports spectator, or birder, optics play a key role in adding to and facilitating your profession or sport. To help you figure out which optics are best suited for your needs, and your budget, the Shooter’s Bible Guide to Optics lists every quality sporting optic on the market in 2018. Filled with color photographs, this book features a new products section that lists all new riflescopes, binoculars, rangefinders, and spotting scopes. It also has in-depth features on how to use binoculars, how to mount and sight in a rifle scope, and more.

Field Guide to Binoculars and Scopes

Field Guide to Binoculars and Scopes
Author: Paul R. Yoder
Publisher: SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Binoculars
ISBN: 9780819486493

Modern binoculars and scopes meet a variety of user needs. This Field Guide provides readers with a concise, organised reference that explains the functions and configurations of instruments commonly used by bird watchers, hunters, amateur astronomers, and military and law-enforcement members. This book also addresses the rationale behind instrument design choices, with hardware examples illustrating specific arrangements and features.

Optics for the Hunter

Optics for the Hunter
Author: John Barsness
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1999
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Finally-a book that explains everything the average hunter should know about buying and using modern optics!

Sport Optics

Sport Optics
Author: Alan R. Hale
Publisher: Alan R. Hale, Hale Optics
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2013
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

The author, a long-time president and CEO of a optics manufacturing company, shares his knowledge and insights to assist consumers in understanding the basics and specifications of standard optical binoculars, spotting scopes, and riflescopes for a variety of hobbies and uses.

Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes

Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes
Author: Ernest H. Cherrington
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780486244914

Informative, profusely illustrated guide to locating and identifying craters, rills, seas, mountains, other lunar features. Newly revised and updated with special section of new photos. Over 100 photos and diagrams. "Extraordinary delight awaits the amateur astronomer or teacher who opens this book." — The Science Teacher.

Advanced Whitetail Hunting

Advanced Whitetail Hunting
Author: Ron Spomer
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1996-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781610603027

The diligent hunter, who finds his buck and learns its territory and habits before hunting season opens, has a huge advantage over other hunters.This helpful resource is filled with detailed illustrations, charts, maps, and hundreds of color photos to show you how to outwit wary bucks. The main difference between this book and others, is that Advanced Whitetail Hunting contains secrets from some of North America's most successful trophy buck hunters. If you're tired of average deer and want to set your sights on a record-book buck -- this book is for you. Learn how to eliminate human odors that give you away. Find out what special areas you can hunt that most casual hunters will avoid, leaving the big deer for you. See how to lure a mature deer with rattling, calling and decoying. The photos and illustrations show you the techniques that will take your hunting to the next level.

Applied Photographic Optics

Applied Photographic Optics
Author: Sidney Ray
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1424
Release: 2002-02-20
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1136097015

Selected by the American Library Association's 'Choice' magazine as "best technical book", the first edition of this book soon established itself as the standard reference work on all aspects of photographic lenses and associated optical systems. This is unsurprising, as Sidney Ray provides a complete, comprehensive reference source for anyone wanting information on photographic lenses, from the student to the practitioner or specialist working with visual and digital media worldwide. This third edition has been fully revised and expanded to include the rapid progress in the last decade in optical technology and advances in relevant electronic and digital forms of imaging. Every chapter has been revised and expanded using new figures and photographs as appropriate, as well as extended bibliographies. New chapters include details of filters, measurements from images and the optical systems of digital cameras. Details of electronic and digital imaging have been integrated throughout. More information is given on topics such as aspherics, diffractive optics, ED glasses, image stabilization, optical technology, video projection and new types of lenses. A selection of the contents includes chapters on: optical theory, aberrations, auto focus, lens testing, depth of field, development of photographic lenses, general properties of lenses, wide-angle lenses, telephoto lenses, video lenses, viewfinder systems, camera movements, projection systems and 3-D systems.

Zeroing in on Optics

Zeroing in on Optics
Author: CPL. Reginald J. Wales
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 289
Release:
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1039181155

Zeroing in on Optics has been designed specifically for today's shooters looking to improve their skills and knowledge of utilizing their firearms optical system. Whether you are a hunter, competitive shooter, or just enjoy recreational shooting, this book will assist you in choosing the best optic for you specific application. It will help you to raise your accuracy to the next level! This manual will walk you through step-by step how to use your firearms optical sighting system to its maximum potential. Packed full of color images, reference charts, and range exercises, this book will help you to maximize your optics capabilities, and elevate your performance in the field, competition or on the range. Learn how to: -Utilize the techniques the pros use from years of real-world operational experience -Properly install your optical system -Calculate your shot correction and make accurate adjustments to your optic -Efficiently zero your firearm without wasting time or ammunition -Understand and utilize the benefits of first focal plane and second focal plane optics -Use your reticle as a "tape measure" to determine the size of the objects downrange -Increase your effectiveness using red dot sights and other electronic optics -Troubleshoot many common problems that can be encountered with your optic -Perform advanced techniques to hit targets at greater distances with repeatability -Increase your physical and mental performance -Utilize and deploy the included training tools and drills And much more!

Pete Dunne on Bird Watching

Pete Dunne on Bird Watching
Author: Pete Dunne
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780395906866

Pete Dunne has taught birding to beginners for years, but he has never found the right book to help them get started. Now the popular birding author identifies the skills and tools available to people with any amount of interest, great or small, in bird watching. Beginning with backyard birding and moving through a quick but comprehensive survey of tools of the trade, Dunne outlines ten basic, simple steps in bird identification that can make a birder out of the most casual of observers. He goes on to show beginning birders how to use their skills to explore new horizons through birding by ear, birding by telescope, and finding and identifying rare or difficult birds. Written in the lively, authoritative style that has made Dunne one of the most popular writers in this field today, Pete Dunne on Bird Watching will inspire in readers both a growing passion for birding and a lifelong respect for the natural world and its inhabitants.

Handbook of Ethological Methods

Handbook of Ethological Methods
Author: Philip N. Lehner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 1998-04-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521637503

At first glance, studying behavior is easy, but as every budding ethologist quickly realises, there are a host of complex practical, methodological and analytical problems to solve before designing and conducting the study. How do you choose which species or which behavior to study? What equipment will you need to observe and record behavior successfully? How do you record data in the dark, in the wet, or without missing part of the action? How do you analyse and interpret the data to yield meaningful information? This new expanded edition of the Handbook of Ethological Methods provides a complete step-by-step introduction to ethological methods from topic choice and behavioral description to data collection and statistical analysis. This book will be a must for beginning students and experienced researchers studying animal behavior in the field or laboratory.