While at the range last year we were playing around with some of our spotting scopes. As usual disappointed with the sizes, features and benefits in contrast to the cost of these often near behemoth range optics - we wanted the performance of the larger glass with the packable size of the typical novelty items. It was here, on the range, over the smell of gun powder, that the concept of the new LUCID OPTICS SC9 Compact Spotting Scope was born.