If you're concerned about weight, be wary of the recommendations for used Nikon HG/L and Trinovid BA/BN bins, they are heavy beasts. I personally would take a Conquest HD over either of those if I wanted the best performance at the price, and the Conquest is also very durable and has a modern warranty.
Well, the weights for all of them in 8x32 are like this: Conquest 600g, Trini BA/BN 640g, Nikon HGL 695g, Nikon HG almost 715g. The wonders of all metal construction. All of them have decent (Conquest/Trini) or better (HG/L) eye relief, field is around 135-140m
None of them are light examples - for comparison a Nikon M7 is 436g (its clones Opticron Traveller, Kite Lynx and Maven C1 are a bit heavier), Nikon Discovery is just shy of 400g, both of course plastic. M7 has borderline unusable with glasses eye relief and a wider field of 145m, Discovery has decent ER and little narrower field of 131m.
The Nikon Monarch HG 8x30 would be 450g, 145m of field and ER somewhere in the middle between borderline and decent. But I would be astonished if you can find it used inside the budget as it's fairly new.
Joachim
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