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I won a pair of these earlier this year at a company event. I took them on a week long hunt in South Carolina, and I must say they have the singularly worst depth of field of any bino I've ever used. When zooming in, as they come to focus there is a "pow!" and the sight picture is crystal clear at the aim point, but, trying to peer a bit deeper or shallower into cover is impossible, and a fractional adjustment loses the focus. Maybe not an issue to others, but I gave them away at the end of the hunt and crawled back home to my Leicas...

Spent some time with these elk hunting in Co. this year. The glass is great, I will give them that. Other than that I wasnt impressed. To heavy, to bulky, to much slop in focus knob and the huge eye cups suck.
Went to Sportsmans yesterday to check out another sample and confirm original thoughts. Salesman said they are a slow seller .


JMHO

I am not impressed either I tried my nephews this year. We were linking over a herd at about 600 yards I could see the little spoke horns on a small bull with my 8x30 Swaro and we could not see the horns with his 8x42 Leopold heavy and not all that clear he is looking a pair of 8x30 now

The majority of Binos are made in china. at the same plants just different specs.

Well I received my new McKinley 8x42 today and from the little bit that I have used them sofar I think they are great, extremly bright wide field of view and great depth of field glass is crystal clear from 50 yards to infinity, also I ware glasses and the eye relief is great for $399 I'm extremly happy will give them a further review later this week coyote hunting. The large ocular doesn't bother me at all.

This sounds like a classic misalignment problem. Given the fact that depth of field decreases with increase in magnification, those do not sound right. The barrels have to be aligned both up and down and left and right. The three terms are dipvergence, which defines the up and down, convergence, which defines if one or both barrels overlap, and divergence, which defines whether or not the barrels axis gets further away from center to the outside. If these get far enough way, even it all three are in spec, the binocular will do what you describe. Likely you have a dipvergence problem as well as one or the other divergence or convergence as well. Since the binocular can be focused at a point, as would be the case in a factory check, that may well go unobserved.

Send them to Leupold.