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A word of caution to prospective buyers of the Yosemite 6x30 glass. Know your inter-pupillary distance, or look through them before you mail order them. The Gods, to amuse themselves, placed my eyes so far to Port and Starboard that many otherwise good quality binocs just won't work. Flintlocke.

Ever try a monocular instead? It might be a viable option.


Who makes a good monocular? Serious inquiry.

I don't know about high end stuff, but I used to carry a Simmons 8×21mm monocular.


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Good article JB ! Thanks!


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Thanks for the article JB,

Good timing as... I'm looking for a pair of binoculars that are both a smaller package and lighter than my Leupold 8x42 'Pinnacles'.

Thinking 8x32's and want to stay under $500.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Jerry


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Originally Posted by flintlocke
Thanks for the tip, but I seem to be prone to eye fatigue when using one eye, at least during extended sessions at the spotting scope or rifle scope. I just gotta be aware of IP distance. Got all in a lather about getting the Yosemite's and before that Meade Safari Pro's and before that the 8.5x42 Audubon's (you can tell I'm a Porro guy?). Tons of good glass out there, but many of the Asian designs aren't concerned with the small percentage of folks on the high end of IP distance. Euro designs tend to accommodate us. Yea, I'm a slow learner.


I wound up getting a Minox binocular for just that reason.
I have NO idea who else builds them with that much intraocular distance - but the Minox are the best I've had, in that regard.


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Originally Posted by jerrywoodswalker
Thanks for the article JB,

Good timing as... I'm looking for a pair of binoculars that are both a smaller package and lighter than my Leupold 8x42 'Pinnacles'.

Thinking 8x32's and want to stay under $500.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Jerry

Jerry, I had the same question and called Cameraland and asked them. Took Doug's advise and am sure glad I did.


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Originally Posted by jerrywoodswalker
Thanks for the article JB,

Good timing as... I'm looking for a pair of binoculars that are both a smaller package and lighter than my Leupold 8x42 'Pinnacles'.

Thinking 8x32's and want to stay under $500.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Jerry

Jerry, I had the same question and called Cameraland and asked them. Took Doug's advise and am sure glad I did.


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I have 2000.00 binoculars and have had lesser.I will keep the two pair of German bins that have. I would down grade my rifle scope and spotting scope before ever considering changing. I hunt sheep by preference and hunker down to glass for hours at a time. If at sometime good quality stabilized bins become available , I will look at them. Better than Cannon's offerings

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I bought some Pentax 8x43 DCF SP on Mule Deer’s advise a few years ago as the best bang for your buck then. I haven’t been disappointed. Got them from Cameraland as well.

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I like my Leupold Yosemite binos. I have two pairs. Both are 6x30. They work great and are still in good condition. I don't recall when I got them, but I believe that it was the first or second year they were available. The first one was a gift from my wife. I bought the second, should the first pair fail or break.


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I bought Pentax DCF SP binos about 10 years ago for about $525 and they are very, very good.

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Originally Posted by Steve Redgwell
I like my Leupold Yosemite binos. I have two pairs. Both are 6x30. They work great and are still in good condition. I don't recall when I got them, but I believe that it was the first or second year they were available. The first one was a gift from my wife. I bought the second, should the first pair fail or break.

......... I also have two pair of Yosemites, the first of which from when they were a recent introduction. But I sort of "lost" them when the wife commandeered them and she didn't even buy me a pair as a replacement. So in 2016 after retirement I ordered another pair for myself and let her keep the first pair. Have had zero problems with them and the smaller size makes them "kid friendly" .

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That was nice of you. smile

The two Yosemites are the only binoculars that I own. It's because of my hunting needs. I had others before them - Bushnells - but gave them to my SIL.


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Originally Posted by jerrywoodswalker
Thanks for the article JB,

Good timing as... I'm looking for a pair of binoculars that are both a smaller package and lighter than my Leupold 8x42 'Pinnacles'.

Thinking 8x32's and want to stay under $500.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Jerry


Try the Nikon Monarch 7 8x30's - ~$375 stunning glass in a very lightweight and compact package. Make sure you are trying the Monarch 7's - the lesser Monarchs are in a different league as well as price point.


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Thanks Mule deer!

I was in a bind and needed a Bin to replace My Nikon Monarchs I had for 12yrs. Ten miles down the road I'm pulling into a Cabela Store And The first pair I looked through Cabela's HD Intensity 10x50's and the search lasted a whole 5 minutes. $219 later I'm headed back up the hill hunting. While scouting Bulls this September my good friend asked to look through them. He's like how much were these? $219 I said. Wow he said they are quite a bit brighter than mine.

Hands me his Vortex Viper HD's and there was no guessing. We agreed the Cabela HD's were at the very least noticeably brighter and cost $300 less. My only complaint they are a lil heavier than my old Nikons. I've one season on the Cabela's now and beat the living chit out of them. Best bang for the buck? I think so.

https://www.cabelas.com/product/hun...ntensity-binoculars/2558676.uts?slotId=0


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Good article, down to earth as usual. As expected, it riled a few snoots into a bit of a lather. Liked that, too.

Now in my 70s, I've always been a cheap skate and haven't leaned towards spending more money, if something a bit less expensive will do. Back in the mid 1970s a buddy and I both had Kmart 10x50s made in Japan. Doubt they cost more than $50 back then and we both used them for decades, mostly while varmint hunting and lots of preseason deer glassing. We were younger then and had better eyes. so we got by with the cheap glass. Anyone that has spent all day glassing for woodchucks, learns to appreciate decent binos.

Years later and with a much better income, he started buying much better glass. One summer we were looking about and he handed me his new B&L 10x50a. Pretty good binos for the time, but I noted they weren't 15 times better than my old Kmarts, as the price suggested.

By the 90s he'd moved onto Zeiss binos and I had a pair of Nikon Monarchs, both 10x50s. I had the same comment after looking thru his Zeiss binos, that I'd had years before with the B&Ls: Good, but not 15 times "gooder". Got a pair of 8x30 Yosemites years ago for Christmas. They are what I have with me from turkey, archery deer and rifle deer seasons. Right now it's flintlock season here in PA, so they're still in use. Love 'em to death. Light, bright and handy. Can't ask much else from a small pair of bines that cost less than $100?

Like to add that I have a Konus 80mm spotting scope. For the money, I think it doesn't give up much to the Kowas that cost far more than it did. Neither do most of those that have looked thru it, unless they have a Kowa? Then it's not even close. ;O)

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