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Any real world experience with them. Best place for the best price ? Thank you
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Everyone on this site has a pair.
good binos. get the 6 power
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I own a 6x. Light, decent glass, and inexpensive. They're just good basic binoculars.
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I have 2 pair of the 6x.
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Have been using the 6x for a few years after reading about them on this site and I am quite satisfied. But I have any of the high end glass so maybe I don't know what I'm missing.
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I have and use both 8x and 6x. They are good enough and inexpensive enough you should consider both IMHO. If I could only keep one, it would be the 8x.
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After reading all the hype on this site I bought the 8x and they were terrible....sent back to Leupold and returned as OK......couldn't give em away so finally threw em out,
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After reading all the hype on this site I bought the 8x and they were terrible....sent back to Leupold and returned as OK......couldn't give em away so finally threw em out, That's because you were supposed to get the 6xs. I like the 6xs very much. They are my truck binos, and get used about everyday. Usually switch to Swaros in hunting season, but get along just fine with the Yosemites, and if they were all I had it wouldn't hurt my feelings overly much.
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I have a 6x and hunt with it quite a bit. The most "important" hunt was after grizzly in Alaska, and it worked fine.
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After reading all the hype on this site I bought the 8x and they were terrible....sent back to Leupold and returned as OK......couldn't give em away so finally threw em out, That's because you were supposed to get the 6xs. +1. The 6x's are much better than the 8x's.
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I don't own any high-end glass, but I really like the view through the 6x Yo's. I bought a pair for my son a few years ago. I have a pair of Nikon 8x30 roof prism binos that were about a $300-$400 binocular in the early 1990s. They were Nikon's version of the Zeiss Dialyt 8x30 - the ones with the green rubber armor. I also have a late 1990s or early 2000s vintage Nikon Monarch 8x40. When I compared the Yo's side-by-side with both pair of my Nikons, the view through the Leupold was much better. Everything looked clearer and brighter. Granted, the comparison was against low-to-mid priced 20 year old technology, but I always thought that my Nikons were decent quality bins. I was happy with the Yosemites considering what I paid for them. You can buy the 6x here for $80, which looks to be about $20 cheaper than most other places: B&H Photo
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Been using the 6X pretty much daily for a couple years or so now. They are great little binos. I'm still amazed how good they are.
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After reading all the hype on this site I bought the 8x and they were terrible....sent back to Leupold and returned as OK......couldn't give em away so finally threw em out, Sorry to hear this. You are not alone, though. Friend got the 8x as well... gathering dust. With the 'mites, 6x is where its at.
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8x version sucks dog dick
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6x rules, 8x drools, as my daughters might say...
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I used to have the 6X30's and liked them, but my nephews daughters needed new hunting binoculars. One told her father that her current binoculars were "crappy." Now both of my 6x30's reside in another state while I make do with Swarovski 7X42.
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I'm still using a 6x bought six years ago.
Has anyone compared the current models to the original 6x? I think Leupold made a change to the housing design. Are the new ones as good as the originals? I want to pick up a pair for my 12yr old son so he will have his own.
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