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ntodwild
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I have both an angled and a straight. It's very difficult to just say one is better than the other (in regards to this topic "Angled vs Straight"). I can say there has been dozens of times over the years where I had one vs the other and wished I had the one I wasn't carrying. That scenario has diminished these days with phone scopes. The truth is unless you are using your spotter under very "reproducible" (range days) situations it's difficult to just throw a blanket one is better to own than the other on either a straight or angled. On that note if you could only own a single spotter I would have to vote for an angled. Although not ideal for things like a window mount or some of the other issues raised I would have to say that I personally find myself more often than not using an angled spotter (it just seems to be more versatile, allows me to carry a more packable tripod in the field and does almost everything well). Now days I find myself 90% of the time with a phone attached to the spotter in order to view a large screen without having to constantly be cranking my neck to look through the eye piece so angles are almost negligent even at the range. I have found that acquisition of a target or animal is purely a matter of knowing your personal scope and having used it often. Just my .02