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Catch-and-Release Deer Hunting with Alpen Optics
 For the first time in the history of deer hunting, you can shoot a buck and release it. That's right, just like bass fishermen catch and release bass, deer hunters can shoot bucks at 200 to 300 yards and let the bucks walk away. Using revolutionary new adaptors for spotting scopes, hunters can shoot their digital cameras in hunting blinds or tree stands and photograph bucks they don't want to take at that time and show those bucks to their friends and family.
If you’ve ever been somewhere like the world-renowned Ford Ranch, near Melvin, Texas, you may see 12 bucks that each would have scored 130 points or better on the Boone & Crockett scale. However, you know none of your hunting buddies at home will believe what you’ve seen. But with Alpen’s spotting scope and digital camera adaptor (DCA), you can let them see what you’ve seen.
New Photography Equipment for the Hunter:
 Until now, photographing wildlife has had three requirements: get close; use a big lens; and don't hunt when you want to take pictures. However, today you don't have to get close to wildlife. The spotting scope you have functions as a zoom camera lens, and you can take pictures while you hunt. With the DCAs from Alpen Optics, you quickly and easily can screw your digital camera to the back of your spotting scope and photograph deer and other wildlife at long range. This new spotting scope/digital-camera system allows you to use your spotting scope in a tree stand or a ground blind. Now you can photograph all those bucks you don't get shots at or decide not to take because of waiting on the opportunity to bag a bigger deer.
 Here’s what Alpen Optics suggests: Use an Alpen DCA #706 with straight spotting scopes or 45" eyepiece spotting scopes. Alpen Optics recommends using the DCA with Alpen’s 18-36X60 waterproof spotting scope #735 with a tripod and a carrying case; and/or Alpen’s 20-60X80 waterproof spotting scope #788 with a tripod and a carrying case.
Once you have a digital camera, a DCA and a spotting scope, you'll discover multiple uses for this new photography concept. Use your DCA for photographing:
- deer you see while hunting but choose not to take;
- bucks on agricultural fields before the season so that you can determine the sizes of antlers of the bucks around each field you’ll have to hunt that season;
- young bucks on green fields you hunt to document the antler development of these bucks from season to season;
- other wildlife when you hunt deer like hogs, squirrels, turkeys, songbirds, armadillos, birds of prey and other critters that come around your stand; and
- anyone who walks into your hunting area unexpectedly. If you hunt private lands, then taking a picture of a poacher from far away documents the person on your land, the date and the time. You can turn this photo and information over to law-enforcement officers and help to prevent hunter/poacher conflicts in the field.
Let's face it, a hunter sitting in a tree stand or a ground blind all day can become as bored as he will watching paint dry. However, when equipped with a tripod, a spotting scope, a DCA and a digital camera, you can have a great time photographing wildlife, even if you don't see any bucks. You’ve also solved the problem of, "I wish my buddies could see this buck I'm passing up."
To have more fun every time you go hunting, learn more about the bucks on your property before, during and after the season and have a better way to take outdoor pictures than you've ever had before, then use a digital camera, some kind of tripod, Alpen Optics’ new DCAs and a spotting scope this season.
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