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    Looking for a pair of Bins, need some Help.

    Sherwood appear to take batches of Opticron demo models from time to time which I'm pretty sure will have been checked before hand. I'm sure they list their own trade-ins as well. As a company they get lots of positive feedback from members here. David
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    Looking for a pair of Bins, need some Help.

    Mostyn, I'm not sure if the Aculon is waterproof which may well be a consideration in south Wales. It replaces the Action in the range that wasn't but they claim they "are built to handle virtually any environment you can bring them into." It would also be a problem with glasses as Les...
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    Looking for a pair of Bins, need some Help.

    Porro prism binoculars are actually much simpler designs optically and better value for money than similarly priced roof prism models. The cheapest roofs will usually lack phase coatings and only have basic mirror coatings and suffer in brightness and contrast compared to the porro designs and...
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    Looking for a pair of Bins, need some Help.

    Mostyn, the Sightron Bob mentions is indeed very well regarded but very difficult to source over here. It could be ordered from the US but watch out for the VAT and collection fee. Pentax do the very closely related BC 9x32 which again is a fine binocular and normally sells for over £200 but is...
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    Looking for a pair of Bins, need some Help.

    Mostyn, I think Les has made some good suggestions.The Leupold BX-1 Yosemite, Kowa YF and Opticron Savanna, Vortex Raptor and probably others are essentially the same optically. They are small. lightweight and good fun to use. Like many here I feel the 6(6.5)x30 are more satisfactory overall...
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