If it was me I'd look for whatever 300 buys in a minox, pentax or steiner porro.
I have 3 sets of binos, pentax sp 8s for elk hunting in timber plus distance, minox hd 10s for coues with steiner 15s on a tripod. I glass distance with the 15s and periodically scan close with the 10s.
Reality is I've glassed animals well past a mile with the 8s, but those are the easy animals in the open... and I've picked out an eyeball at 250 yards in grass that I'd never had seen without the 15s on a tripod.
Get the best glass you can even if it's 300, that won't be vortex. Then learn to glass by doing it, teach your mind to see.
A good glasser will find animals with 25.00 binos and someone uncommitted will struggle with 2500 ones.
