Liliput said:Have anyone test the Bushnell Excursion 8X42 ?
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The sample that i looked at had a close focus of 45 yards.
FrankD said:Rob,
Thanks I had not considered that.
Wehr,
I am assuming a typo. I will send a brief note to Cabelas to ask them to change it. They are good about such things.
Otto,
Ok, now that is just scary! How did you manage to focus them at all...especially with the problem with the right barrel.
I am going to have to head to the local retail store to see if they have them in stock yet. They are beginning to intrigue me. I was expecting somewhere of a step up from the H20/Buckmarks but a step down from the Legends.
Are you serious? I was thinking about getting a pair, but if the close focus is 45 yards, nope. 45 yards? Close focus? I don't see how they can call that 'close'.Otto McDiesel said:The sample that i looked at had a close focus of 45 yards. That is yards, not feet.
marcus said:Are you serious? I was thinking about getting a pair, but if the close focus is 45 yards, nope. 45 yards? Close focus? I don't see how they can call that 'close'.
John Traynor said:The published specs list 6 feet for the 8X42 Bushnell Excursion.
It costs $160 USD.
FrankD said:Excursion. Size and image quality are better than a similarly configured Trophy model. I cannot speak for Otto but must assume he had a really poor model to view. I looked at them a couple weeks ago at the local Cabelas and found them to be quite good optically for the price. Though they are a bit distorted in the outer 1/3 of the view I still thought that the extra wide field made them very easy to look through. Optical quality was very close to the Legends in my opinion. Resolution wasn't the greatest though in my opinion.
FrankD said:Interesting comments as many of them are somewhat contradictory to my experience with the Excursions...most notably the distortion for about a 1/3rd of the field of view and the resolution. Though I do believe they offer good resolution levels I did find them a bit less sharp than either the Legends or the Monarchs. I am wondering if either you have a "cherry pair" or I just had a poor set.... I will have to check them out again the next time I head down to the store.