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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sancho" data-source="post: 1313277" data-attributes="member: 27039">I´ll step in uninvited and try to answer that....it´s a lot of things. It´s partly all of the above. It´s largely a "toys for boys" thing (how many women inhabit this dark optics-corner of the forum?) It´s partly a simple hunting/evolutionary thing...humans rely heavily on binocular vision, have pretty good hearing but a comparatively lousy olfactory sense. Our vision for millions of years was the major means by which we ate, and avoided getting eaten. It may also be in my case a psychological throwback to being 10 years old and desperately trying to save "odd-job" pocket-money to get my first pair of bins. (Let´s hear it now for Sancho´s Inner Child, "Awwww......"<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />)I just thought of something....why are binoculars far more addictive than scopes? I, for one, feel this desperate urge to use the absolute "best" bins out there (as if such a thing existed), but I´m happy enough with a cracking good scope (or scopes), even though there may be better ones available. For me, the obsession is about bins. Anyone care to offer some free psychoanalysis on this issue?</blockquote>