I live and hunt in New Hamphsire, but I travel the country for work and vacations. I spent the better part of a year stopping in at every store that sold binoculars for my 20 weeks on the road that year. For my dollar and my style of hunting, I went with an 8x30 Conquest and couldn't be happier. I use it extensively in NH and New England, but have been in the woods of northern Idaho and Northeast Washington State with them and haven't wanted any more magnification or, or anything for that matter, from my bins.
If I truly need to see something with much more magnification, I'll take out my spotter with a 25LER eyepiece and call it good.
Handle as many as you can, but if they're going to be sitting around your neck all the time, look hard at the 30/32's.
Mike.
