I need new binos for this season. Looking at 10x50's

Mid range Nikons.

vortex

I like my Nikon prostaff 7s

For $500? You can get Vortex for half that price

vortex makes 3/4 different models. the lower model isnt terrible, but its not that good in my opinion.

i have Nikon Monarch 10x42 and love them. especially their customer service at Nikon. they have a lifetime warranty and after 5 years, my latch that holds the harness broke off. called Nikon and they sent me a package to send my binoculars too. a week later, I received a new pair of their most recent model. not just the latch fixed, but a whole new pair of binoculars. I was very pleasantly surprised.

I've been looking at the new Nikon laserforce binoculars. but I had to look at the store model at bass pro. don't know how banged up they were but I wasn't impressed with them. im going to try cabelas and see if it was just that particular pair or if its the binoculars themselves.

I personally think the 10x50's are a little bigger than ideal. 10x42 seems to be that perfect sweet spot (even though you are a large human )

Check out the Maven C.1 they have a 12x42 for $375

Sworvs, if they have any like that. My wife worked in the field and I bought her 8x30's. After 20 years one cover cap fell off and the dial dry rotted and broke. Called em up and they said send em back to us and they would refurbish. Six weeks later they returned em to me like brand new. No charge. Little pricey paid 650.00 for em in 95. I'll pass it down to my grandsons.

have you had or used the Mavens? I was worried they were gimmickie

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have you had or used the Mavens? I was worried they were gimmickie

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Buddy of mine has them and they're great. They just released the C (affordable) series, before that they were all $1000+