For what this is worth, I had the Chuck Adams Bowhunter Excursion 7x36, the 7x36 Diamondback, and the Fury 6.5x32 at the same time. FWIW I still have the Fury. I was doing a bunch of looking at various more or less compact 6-7x binoculars at the time. The reason I bought the Bushnell was the fact that the fov at the time of introduction was listed as 488' (yeah 488')
. That spec was everywhere, and I think that all stemmed from the fact that Bushnell listed it as such, and everyone else selling it took the Bushnell site at face value. When I got the binocular it had 408' @ 1,000 yards clear as a bell on the end of the focus knob. So I called Bushnell and asked which was the misprint. At first they said that the website was right, Anyway that led me to check it (it measured at 410' if I recall correctly) and eventually they eventually admitted somebody typed in 488' instead of 408'. Bushnell changed the spec on their site a few days later. The Diamondback said 411'. Now as far as I could tell the ONLY difference between the Diamondback and the Excursion was the style of enclosure. Every surface, angle, lens, prism, whatever...was as far as I could tell EXACTLY the same design. Even the lens tint and the way they reflected light was the same. The view was indistinguishable. I will not call a difference based on a couple of measly feet fov. I did much prefer the Excursion for ergonomics. However it went back in what was a long and tense battle with Bushnell. The eye cups of the Excursion almost required a pipe wrench to adjust and they only extended out to about 12 mm. They worked fine with sunglasses, but I'm not a glass wearer and they wouldn't work for me. Bushnell claimed there was nothing wrong with them...anyway I digress. I kept the Fury because it was a lot better than both, but larger than I had hoped. For $129 it is a smoking deal.
EDIT: Tom may be right about 426'. My experience was right at the time of the release of the Excursion 7x36 and they may have tweaked the spec a little later on to match the 8x36 version's 426'. I pretty much quit paying much attention to Bushnell after this. I will however, always remember 408 vs 488.