Good binocs are the shizz....best money I EVER spent on any sporting equipment. The caveat then is to USE them, religiously.
For 99.9% of hunting high dollar "Alpha" scopes are not necessary. But if it floats your boat....
I'll spend 90% of my time looking through binocs, and about .00012% looking through a scope.
Also, as someone mentioned you get into a law of diminishing returns quickly with optics. A $500 binoc is easily twice as good as a $250 one. A $1,000 binoc is by no means twice as good as the $500,and for another $1000 you'll be lucky to get 10% more in performance.
