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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Purcell" data-source="post: 1313410" data-attributes="member: 68323">There are so many more bins to choose from.Part of this is that bins are a intimate tool. The bins are held not clamped to a tripod. They have to have good ergonomics to match your grip and your face; to balance the weight well and to get that weight just right.; to be carried in just the right way. I think some of the "primitive man" ideas mentioned above might have some bearing on this.Bins are more useful too. Grab and go with no off the faffing about with setting up the tripod, leveling it, toting it around, finding the target "indirectly" rather than just moving the body.I think part of this is the design constraint on scopes show how much poorer lower end scopes (of which I own only two!) are than higher end scopes (of which I own so far none). So it really does take a lot more effort and a lot more money to make a good scope than a good bin. So there are much fewer of them and they're a lot more expensive.I think this is one reason I'm so surprised with how much alpha bins cost compared to alpha scopes. It seems there the better deal is with the scopes.</blockquote>