Hi All,

Can anyone recommend some decent compact scales (for stalking) ideally non digital unless there are any people really rate.

Cheers

In reply to Post #1
Fox digis are superb and pretty compact. Always had dials but would never go back now. Mine are 100% bang on over there whole range as we have a testing facility at work to test a scales accuracy with calibrated weights.

In reply to Post #1
I recently purchased the saber tackle digital folding scales, got to say i'm quite impressed

In reply to Post #3
these are on my list for pay day........

In reply to Post #4
Ruben Heaton 9000 digital scales....perfect and compact, 3 years of use and still perfect

In reply to Post #1
RH Fly weight scales small, compact and you don't even know they are in your bag

Mine are 5 years old and still going strong and regularly check them against my bigger scales and still remarkably accurate

In reply to Post #6
I use reuben 9000 series for this purpose.

As always I believe in being honest..

Coming from the era of Avon London scales, I was in the market for some scales to potentially replace the sticky bodied korums I have,which are very accurate..

So ..

I bought some RH,flyweight,to remind me of times past with the Avons...the set I had and sent back were completely 'out'..

Years ago I had three sets of RH,dials,they also were out,no point in having scales if they consistently give false weighing..

I now don't trust Ruebens,with all this needle bouncing around malarkey,and the bulk of them too..far better options out there now small,lighter etc..

In reply to Post #3
The wife bought me these as a stocking filler last Christmas she asked so I gave her some ideas.

I have Reubens which stay in my kit bag for the longer trips generally abroad then the Fox compact scales goes in my weekend kit bag so wanted a small compact set for a days fishing so I bought one of the zip type mats some cheap alarms a few bank sticks small tackle pouch that I could keep altogether as a grab and go set up in the zip mat and leave altogether the idea being a set of the Sabre scales would be left in there as well.
Anyway I fished a day session back in March where I landed a reasonable carp of 39.8 this fish is one of the A team and generally around low 40's that time of year possibly a mid forty having not being out over winter it looked all of that but the Sabre scales said what they said.
A few months on and I fished my syndicate in May and caught a fully scaled stock fish, a mate in the next swim came over for a look and it weighed just over 12lb on the Sabre scales to which my mate said and I thought it looked bigger so he popped and got his scales (Reubens) re-weighed it and it went over 17.8 checked again same result, any way checked the Sabre against his and they were 5.6lb out, later that day when I got home I checked against my Reubens and Fox digitals with the same result all bar an ounce on the Fox scales, upshot is I had a 39.8 in March that was quite possibly bigger but hey ho it was what it was when weighed on cheaper scales they went in the bin after that.

In reply to Post #9
I checked mine against my Ruben dial scales and they both read exactly the same, but its obviously worth checking them periodically like any anything digital with batteries

In reply to Post #1
compact ? not really but in a way yes lol
as they are long and thin so go in a rod bag or chair or bedchair easy enough and mine when tested against factory overhauled set or RH specimen scales were found to be 100% the same I mounted them on a tripod using a large water carrier with various amounts of water
they are the Wychwood T-Bar Scales Mk2 about 30 quid bit more money and you can get them with a display on both sides so your mate can read it at the same time

In reply to Post #1
mk2 flyeeight Reuben Heaton ... bang on

In reply to Post #12
My flyweights are miles out as were the last pair i had.

In reply to Post #13
Yep, they utter ***** those scales.