Also pleased to find that the individual eyepiece focusing system works properly - no central focus ring here! The East and West scales are only marked by numerals in divisions of every 10 mils. The North and South scale are marked by numerals in divisions of 10 mils and further marked every 2 mils. As they are military contract binos, the right lens contains a reticle that covers 50 mils in each direction. The 30 could be a military formation or region marking, but if anyone has any ideas, please comment. Does anyone have an idea of what BH 30 stands for? Has anyone come across any other Swarovski binos with military issue markings?Ģ.
Clearly, the Austrian MOD procurement executive have chaps of exquisite taste and unlimited budgets!ġ. BH stands for Bundesheer (the Austrian Army), so they have definitely been acquired at some point by the Austrian MOD and issued to the army. The one marking I have not come across before on this particular model is the Austrian eagle with BH 30 underneath. I intend on contacting Swarovski to find out the They are quite old - the serial number appears to be 98*** so they could have been used by Moses on his way through the desert, as far as I know. But they are green, which clearly must make them so much better. Great design, very reminiscent of the Avimos. So I have done the deed and pulled the trigger on a pair of Swarovski Habicht Tirol 7x42 GA. However, I could not quite control the yearning for a good old set of porro prisms.
Great, more compact but they feel heavier. I replaced them with a previously-loved set of Leica 7x42BA.
Although there are many like them, there was a pang of regret as I gave them back in. Having used the Avimo 7x42 in British Army L12A1 version for many years, they eventually gave up the ghost and were BLRd.