Hello, I live in Huntingdon County Pa. and in this area there is very little to no places that sell optics. I was told by a few people [esp. ChadKauffy on here] about the Lost Creek Shoe Shop located 3.9 miles north off Mifflintown/McAlisterville exit off Rt. 322 , this is exit 35.This shop is located very close or is part of Oakland Mills.
I needed to buy a new pair of steel toe boots, and wanted to see this shop. I was really surprised to find a very nice shoe shop as well as binocular, spotting scope bonanza. There were a lot of top brand model optics and also some very nice used optics. Here are some pictures. The picture to the right shows what I was really shocked to see, a Kowa 32x82 Prominar Fluorite Highlander binocular as well as a Zeiss DC4 camera eyepiece on a Zeiss scope. I really didn't see which Zeiss scope it was, there was just too much to look at in this shop.:-)
I asked to see Zeiss 8x42 and 8x32 FL binoculars, the one picture shows where the Zeiss 8x32 was made.:-) I was very much impressed with these.I also asked to see the Swarovski 15x56, of which I thought a lot of.
The Swarovski picture shows some of the back porch observing area that is very nice. These Amish Salespeople let you alone to look through and don't stand there waiting for you to get done.:-) I did forget about the big Kowa binocular.
I will have to make another trip down. From my place it is about 46 miles.
Steve
Here are some more pictures. I asked to see a Nikon 82 ED spotter with the zoom eyepiece. This is one scope I am very much interested in. I forgot about looking for a Nikon 50 ED as this is another scope I am interested in.These show the observation area and some of the targets to see. I hope you like these pictures ok.The one picture shows my feeble attempt to take a picture through the Nikon 82 ED and shows the far "target" . The one closest is a Vortex optics checking target and has a 1951 USAF Test Target as well as other types included in one target. Sorry I didn't see any birds this day, but it was 91 degrees out.:-)
Steve