So it finally happened to me. I’ve heard the stories for a while about getting into the range bag or dragging out the hiking gear in the springtime and finding your binoculars not exactly as you remember putting them away. The problems range from not quite being as clear as you remember, to having double vision, all the way to now having a pair of monoculars, one for each eye.
My binoculars weren’t broken in half. It wasn’t that bad. But the left side didn’t look in the same direction as the right side anymore. Somehow, at some point they had hit something hard and were out of alignment. It would have been as simple as sending them to the manufacturer for warranty service work, if that company had given a warranty worth the paper it was written on. That is a whole different conversation on warranties though, but it was okay. The binos had been a gift and it wasn’t a dire emergency, just inconvenient. I didn’t have a hunt coming up or a camping trip next week that I’d need binos for.
