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Ragincajun92
Optics GrassHopper Joined: November/05/2019 Location: Ga Status: Offline Points: 5 |
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Posted: November/05/2019 at 09:57 |
New member here looking for advice on some binos under $300 if possible. Any recommendations would be great. These will be used for hunting so low light gathering is a must. Thanks in advance for any help or guidance.
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supertool73
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i own a couple sets sightron s2 blue sky 8x32. They are just under $200. They are fantastic binos. Especially for the $200 they cost. I have the meopta 8x32 hd also to compare too. The meoptas are better, but the sightrons do very well against them.
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Rancid Coolaid
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"Hunting" is a pretty wide open term for specifying needs. Are you hunting open fields at dawn/dusk or heavy woods or something else entirely?
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Ragincajun92
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JGRaider
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Athlon Midas 8x42. It is easily as good as the Vortex viper HD, far superior to the Diamondback. It competes well with any $500 class bino made. Beauty of it is, you can find it for $250 or so on (read rule #3.)
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Raido
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I would say that you need the porro prisms as soon as you hunt in the woods, but no. There is one excellent binos: Leupold Bx-2 Acadia Roof 8x42, it's about 300$. leupold is one the manufacturers which make binoculars on Abbe–Koenig prisms. "Such a prism is much more difficult in manufacturing so that binoculars with Abbe-Koenig prisms are more expensive. But the image quality is higher, so it’s worth it. Such binoculars are perfect for observation at low light" (https://lookforword.net/binoculars/roof-prisms/) , plus it's waterproof and had phase coated prisms (means high resolution). I think that the optic is highly important in hunting and if you need it, It's better to buy the best
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Karaoke
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My father has a pair of these binoculars and he never gives them to anybody hahaha! I'm a newbie in optics but looking on him I can assume that this stuff is really worthy for its money
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