I have a pair of Nikon Monarch 8x30's that I keep in my truck. I take a pair of Leica Geovids in 10x42 for hunting where I will be hiking quite a bit. For hunting that requires hours of glassing, like Coues deer in Arizona, I have a pair of Swarovski 15x56 SLC's. I carry a lightweight tripod for both the Leicas and the Swarovskis.
It greatly enhanced my success at spotting animals when I started using really good optics on a tripod. With the 15x56 glass I often leave the spotting scope at home or in camp.
On a given hunt I might spend hours a day looking through my binoculars but only 15 seconds or less looking through my rifle scope.
So when purchasing optics I spend a lot more on binoculars than I do on rifle scopes.
