So I'm looking for a little bit of advice here, I am looking to make my first significant Bino purchase and am looking for some advice from people with experience with different levels of glass. Currently my only binos are a pair of 8x32 redfields, received them as a gift years ago and they have been very serviceable for a primarily midwest whitetail hunter, for everything I have read they are actually pretty good glass given their price point. However, I have recently begun to dabble in western hunting and general adventuring and would like some good glass for those purposes as well as general use hunting and outdoorsing back here in the upper midwest.
I have settled on the tried and true 10x42 as the perfect format for my uses and am really considering optics in two price levels, as I am simply not able to jump to the truely high end ie swaro slc or the new razor uhd and other comparable. I am considering stuff in both the lower mid (viper HD, BX4 pro guide and sig zulu 7) or the upper mid (Razor HD, BX5 santium and open to suggestions of others at this level) which represent roughly $500 and $1000 price points. My main concerns being is the step up in quality from the $500 glass to the $1000 glass really that significant or is one better off going $500 and then other being happy where your at or eventually saving up to get into the afor mentioned truely high end glass level? I ask this because at least to me at this point all of these binos seem like a huge step up from what I've used before and it's hard for me to tell if it's really worth it at this point to spend more when the $500 ones already look amazing to me,but then again as I gain more experience with the better glass will I begin to really notice a difference. Just looking for opinions and thoughts from those with more experience in the glassing game. Thanks ahead of time.
I have settled on the tried and true 10x42 as the perfect format for my uses and am really considering optics in two price levels, as I am simply not able to jump to the truely high end ie swaro slc or the new razor uhd and other comparable. I am considering stuff in both the lower mid (viper HD, BX4 pro guide and sig zulu 7) or the upper mid (Razor HD, BX5 santium and open to suggestions of others at this level) which represent roughly $500 and $1000 price points. My main concerns being is the step up in quality from the $500 glass to the $1000 glass really that significant or is one better off going $500 and then other being happy where your at or eventually saving up to get into the afor mentioned truely high end glass level? I ask this because at least to me at this point all of these binos seem like a huge step up from what I've used before and it's hard for me to tell if it's really worth it at this point to spend more when the $500 ones already look amazing to me,but then again as I gain more experience with the better glass will I begin to really notice a difference. Just looking for opinions and thoughts from those with more experience in the glassing game. Thanks ahead of time.