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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 1361108" data-attributes="member: 56622">Well as luck would have it, I went to the Cabelas in Post Falls, Idaho last weekend.  Now that Frank brings it up, I remember seeing the Alpha in a Cabela's catalog.  With the Promaster/Hawke reviews, it does seem like somebody would have remembered it.  The Cabela's Alpha appears a lot like the Vanguard, it would have to be a better instrument than the Vanguard.  A local Sportsmans Warehouse has those, and to put it mildly, they do not impress me.  I posted about them on that thread.The Vortex Razor has a different enclosure than the Promaster/Hawke.  There is a three finger gap in the Razor bridge.  The Razor focus knob is also somewhat smaller too.  So similar, yes, identical no.The current Cabelas Alpha Extreme (it is linked in one of the above posts)  is not at all like the Promaster/Hawke.  For one thing it is smaller.  It appears to be a Bushnell Excursion EX with a much better rubber, camoflage armor.  Also has less fov than the Bushnell too. They cost less than $200, but I think they are better optically than the EX.  The Cabela Alpha Extreme is also similar to the Leupold Mojave, but there are a number of differences in the length between hinges, Mojave shorter, overall length, Mojave shorter.  Optically, I thought the Alpha Extreme and Mojave were awfully similar, but the Cabelas glass has a 390+' fov and the Mojave is 350-'.  So at the Leupold price of about $350 vs the Cabela Alpha Extreme at $200, the choice seems a no brainer to me.I was also pretty impressed with the Cabela's/Steiner Outfitter binocular.  Easily the optical equal of the Promaster at about the same price.  The Outfitter is only available in 10x42.  It was (is?) on sale for $499.</blockquote>

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