re: Binoculars recommendation

Check out the link. I bought the Monarch 7 series under good value.

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Price: $480
Score: 4.11
The takeaway: There's little mystery as to why the Monarch 7s are perennial favorites: They provide razor-sharp optics with excellent light-gathering capabilities that just feel good in your hand, even after hours in the field.
More specs: 22.9 oz, waterproof/fogproof, 351 ft/1,000 yd FOV, limited lifetime warranty

I'm a firm believer in the fact that you can't skimp on good glass. Good glass is always better than mediocre glass...

BUT,

It's unfortunate that nobody who makes good glass makes a better set of autofocusing binocs like my bushnell 10x50mm Permafocus ones (or none that I've found in my limited time looking for it).

I guarantee you that if Leupold, Swarovski, etc. started making permanent focus binocs folks would take the permafocus style of binoculars much more seriously than they do now (as more of a novelty item than an actual hunting optic) and I'd pay whatever they were asking to have that platform in premium glass.

If you ever try them out where you're constantly glassing in the woods for a day, you'll probably never pick up a pair of manual focusing binoculars again. You can glass in the thick woods and swamp from 50 feet away out to infinity. I credit many turkey and deer kills in the thick woods to my BINOCULARS finding the game, not me.

Picture this: it's like sticking a pair of 10x magnification contact lenses in your eyes and getting instant focus at all depths of field. Plus, their low light performance is ridiculous: you can see until it's STUPID dark.

I especially like them when slipping through the national forest river bottoms after green out looking for turkeys. When that split second counts where you see the gobbler before he sees you, where having the ability to instantly focus from 32 yards out to 64 yards and decipher whether or not that red buckeye flower is in fact a buckeye flower, or if it's the waddle on a gobbler's neck, is priceless to me. Is that a honeysuckle vine at 78 yards, or is that a bedded buck's rack at 102 yards just beyond it? There's no time taken to focus juuuust right and see if it is with permafocus binocs.

I paid around $100 for mine going on 10 years ago, but now you can get them anywhere from 40-60 bucks. I still use them all the time, and they're all I use when I hunt, but they're getting to the end of their serviceable life at 10 years of constant use. I'm actually looking at some higher end models made from other manufacturers now, but I don't know if I want to fix what ain't broken and try a different model. Better glass would be nice- better glass is ALWAYS nice- but it ain't BAD glass, to be clear.

Heck, for 40 to 60 dollars, whaddya got to lose? Try em out in terrain where the depth of field and cover varies in thickness from near to far and see how much more efficient they are for extensive glassing and you'll love em. For all the still hunters out there, you'll for sure probably never go back. I won't.

Theres my. 02 cents worth.

A few months ago I purchased a telescope and a pair Leupold 10 x 50 binoculars for bird watching. My older pairs were football game binoculars. They were mail ordered from a store in NYC for about @155.00. You can get an amazing quality difference for your needs for the $50.00 spending increase. However, I suspect the sales associates can match your needs with what you wish to spend.

Not long ago I was interested in binoculars and understand that finding a good hunting binoculars worth less than $ 100 is a difficult task not so many really high quality binoculars. I read a lot of feedback from experienced users and came to the conclusion that there are several models of binoculars in the budget of up to $ 100. The model from the Vortex series gets a lot of good recommendations, but I would also pay attention to the Nikon 8245 ACULON https://opticzoo.com/best-hunting-binoculars-under-100-reviews/ It is suitable for those who wear glasses and another good model Bushnell 334211 Trophy on the recommendations of the owners one of the best opticians.