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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CliveP" data-source="post: 3544234" data-attributes="member: 85835">I repaired, or tampered with, depending on how you look at it (eh Bill) my Hawke Endurance 10x25 (approx£100) and now it's performing very well such that I'm starting to use it regularly and finding it a nice useful asset whereas before my tampering it wasn't much use and was left to the side and this was the 4th bin (third replacement) from Hawke and I'd pretty much given up on it so was spurred into tamper mode.Anyhow when I was out with it a few times after the tampering it actually occurred to me that of all of the bins I have owned it most reminded me of the Leica 10x32 HD that I had. Of course not just as good but not really that far behind and much lighter and more compact.So if you could actually manage to get a good one of these from Hawke (I tried 3 times, obviously they are good components but really cobbled together in China and Hawke seemingly incapable of noticing) it would be a very good little bin for a 10th of the price of a big brand bin such as the Leica. So just one example of how the cheap end is persuing - and catching - the top end at least in optical quality. You just have to fix them yourself.</blockquote>