Flagship 20-60x80 Spotting Scope with Tripod for Bird Watching

Just bought this Spotter scope after orginally wanting to buy a telescope . My uses were to watch Birds about 50-100 yards away and spotting and looking at ships in Long Island Sound from the shore in Waterford CT. I looked at the reviews and this unit was very popular with good reviews so I did some more reseach and decided this was the unit for me, Well I have had it for a week now and it hasnt disappointed ! It does a great job of seeing the things I needed to see which varied from short to long distances . The images were very clear. The device feels sturdy but not overly heavy so its the ideal device for either a travel or fix station in your house setup. Worked great for bird watching. pulled things right in at 50 yards. Ships in the sound was also good. Ships were a good distance away and the spotter showed nice clear magnified images Pros of the unit - Nice images - good zoom. Easy to use . Light weight enough for taking on the go but sturdy enough for the home based tripod use. Very good value for the price you pay.... Cons of the unit - The cell phone attachment is a little clunky. Also it would have been nice if they had better directions. What you get is bare bones and everything in it you probable knew before reading

This is a very nice scope. Excellent range, crystal clear optics, Money well spent. Its very light mounted on tripod.and the carry case is size perfect. Comes with everything you need for bird watching to Archery target spotting. . its very versatile and easy to setup. I had a minor problem with my scope eye piece, I sent message to Gosky and they took care of it very quickly above and beyond. Highly recommend as a starter scope or even intermediate use.

I purchased the scope in May 2025 and have only taken it to the range 5 or 6 times. Unfortunately, the eyepiece has some kind of internal smudging or growth and is no longer usable. I have been trying to get help from both Amazon and Grosky but can't access any legit website or email address to ask for help. I am hoping that someone will see my post and reach out. For the few times I have used the scope at 100 and 200 yards it has been really a great scope, especially for the price. I truly hope someone will contact me on how to get some help.

Even on the lowest power (20x) you can clearly and easily see .22 holes on a dead tree at 100yards. If one review had said that, I would have bought it a year ago. Instead I hemmed and hawed thinking I need to spend hundreds to get a spotting scope that would do that. So on prime day when it was 20% off, I figured, well heck, why not? If it sucks, I'll return it. At 40x I can see .177 pellet holes at 100 yards on plain old white paper. No more walking back and forth or having to buy shoot n c targets just to check my zero. The scope on my favorite airgun cost 4 times this and even at 25x you can't see your hits at 100 yards. This does it easily. Like others have said, image quality degrades after 40x, but if you want to see .22 holes at 100 clearly and easily, this will work. My 53year old, terrible vision eyes w astigmatism have no problem with this scope. The tree with holes is dead, so nothing was injured. The dove is at 20 yards, it was the only critter I seen out that day, except for my dog, she's at 50 yards. You can see things much further, very clearly, but when I tap "take picture" button on my phone, its blurry. So if you want to take long distance pics use something better than a 10yo cell phone on a shaky tripod. But as for the scope, it's better than I expected.

Great spotting scope for range use! I was shooting my ar15 , target 50 yards, and it showed the bullet holes very clearly at 50 yards. Might struggle beyond that but i guess for the distance/range of the scope the clarity was great!

For the price, you get amazing pictures even without using the tripod!!!! It is definitely heavy at times but staying in one spot works great for digiscoping.

The scope itself seems to be pretty decent hard to adjust the tripod that comes with it piece of junk why they would put that with this greatest scope I have no reason to understand very sorry tripod

Can finally see, IN DETAIL, my shots at 100 yds away! The tripod isn't the sturdiest, but it works and not gonna knock it. Seemed to have good focus, and felt solid otherwise. Always going with me to the range.

Très efficace pour la vision d'animaux, bonne luminosité mais passable avec appareil photo Nikon perte des automatisme, mais super avec smartphone (ne pas abuser du zoom!) le support livré d'origine est anecdotique. bilan rapport qualité prix très bon.

Franchement impressionner par cette longue vue. Image nette en zoom x20 x40 et plus sombre a x60 mais reste acceptable surtout pour le prix. Je regrette pas mon achat. Je regarder la lune avec et franchement j’ai été vraiment surpris de pourvoir voir les cratères aussi bien. Aucun regret

Very disappointed as the view inside the view finder is circular and small not NOT a full screen view be aware of this ! veyr disappointed

This is a review aimed at people looking at this scope as a way to get into birding; in addition to pros/cons, I'm going to give my advice for new birders to get started using this, which can maybe also help you tell if digiscoping is going to be the right birdwatching approach for you. I've had this scope for a little less than a year. I have not used any high-end cameras to compare it to. Pros: Really inexpensive way to get into the hobby. For a relatively small cost, you're getting a great zoom level. Perfect for bird identification photos. Seems really robust and sturdy. I don't mind just slinging this over the shoulder and going for a hike, rather than having a lens where I'm worried that any bump is going to cause a misalignment. It is a little heavy, but I'd rather heavy and sturdy than light and fragile. Cons: Weak link is the connector to the phone. It's fiddly to get aligned just right sometimes. Sometimes I think I've gotten a great shot and then checking it out afterwards I have weird dark patches on the photo because the scope and camera weren't totally aligned. The photos you get won't be professional quality. this is less a knock on the scope, moreso, on digiscoping as compared to traditional cameras. You'll get great photos for identification and sharing. If there was one feature I'd like on the scope itself, I'd love some tactile indicator on the focus adjustment knob so you can remember just by touch which way is focusing closer and further. I find myself frequently turning it the wrong way. General advice: 1. Get a good tripod. You'll want one that's adjustable up to standing height, light-weight, and has a pan/tilt-handle. (I got one that didn't have a handle and ended up deciding that I needed to make one). The tripod that comes with the scope is sturdy, but setting up and sitting on the ground isn't great for birding. I got one with a ball-head mount, and I'm not sure it's better than one with bi-directional pan head. My sense is that ball-heads allow you to quickly adjust to unusual angles, but pan heads are a little easier for fine-tuning your adjustments. The scope is quite front-heavy when mounted on a tripod. 2. Use a good camera app. I use Camera+ 2 on the iphone and find that it's a lot better than the standard camera app. While you can use both the manual focus and the phone's focus ability, I find the best approach is to get my focus close with the scope, and then use the focus on the camera do the rest. A great approach is to use autofocus on something at the same depth as the bird (a branch or leaf), and lock the focus... then you don't have to worry about the bird moving and the camera suddenly deciding to focus on the distant background. Speaking of apps, you'll definitely want to get Merlin, for use with identifying birds... you can leave Merlin running, stay in your camera app, and you'll get notifications when new bird calls are detected. (also, this is a beat of a cheat, but playing a bird call back through Merlin can be a great way to get a shy songbird to come out in the open.) Paying attention to bird calls and learning to recognize them is both rewarding and really useful. 3. The zoom on this scope is really powerful, but if there's one thing that's challenging, it's when a bird is too close. There's just no way to focus on a bird that's closer than about 12 feet (and you can't quickly dismount your phone if you want to switch). It's important to understand your zoom on your camera phone: typically you've got both an optical and digital zoom. Digital zoom isn't actually zooming in any closer, just expanding the pixels, so generally there isn't any point in zooming in beyond your optical zoom threshold. Remember that the closer you are, the narrower your depth of field is, so don't bother trying to get as close as you can. If you're photographing a larger bird like a goose or heron, you might not be able to get it all into the shot if you're too close. 4. Depending on your phone settings, you may find that your picture is inside a circular vignette, especially when your phone's zoom is set to 1. For my phone, there's a zoom sweet-spot between 1.5 to 2, where the picture fills the full frame and I'm still using optical zoom. 5. Accept that it's going to take a while to set up a shot. This is ultimately the big downside to digiscoping: you can't just point-and-shoot. You'll miss out on some shots because the bird takes off while you're still trying to dial in your focus. When I'm photographing songbirds, I spend a lot of time observing what branches they like and where they move, getting my focus locked in on where I think it's going to go, and then waiting. Getting any good action shots likely requires both a lot of preparation and luck. 6. Bring a pair of binoculars, even cheap small ones. If you're trying to tell at a distance if a bird is worth your effort, it's easier to just check it out through binoculars first. 7. Start with wetlands. Geese and ducks make way better targets for the beginner, since they're large and slow-moving. Songbirds are a lot more challenging. Practice quickly getting your zoom and focus set. Because you're looking down at the scope rather than through it (like a binocular or telescope), it can take a little while to actually get it pointed where you want as well, so it's good to practice using landmarks (ie. that bird is below a prominent tree on the horizon so I'll find that tree first, and then pan down until I get to the bird). 8. A lot of your photo quality is going to be determined by your post-processing. This is something I'm not really experienced with yet, but if you want to try and push this beyond just identification into really vivid, high-quality photos, you'll need to work in a desktop photo-processing app.

Es ist leicht,man kann bis ca 40 fach gut sehen,danach läßt es mit der Helligkeit nach,aber immer noch ok. Wer also weis das er für ca 200 Euro soetwas kauft,und weis das es auch welche für ein paar tausend Euro gibt, der ist für dieses Geld wirklich gut beraten sich es zu kaufen, meiner Meinung nach gut