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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Purcell" data-source="post: 1385688" data-attributes="member: 68323">Given the naming and the pricing an improved Legend is rather more likely than an improved Excursion or Excursion EX: it's about $100 more than a current Legend 8x42 perhaps less in street price terms (it's difficult to know with Bushnell pricing: is that in wacky Bushnell dollars, if so the street price will be even lower). It won't be the same as the other open-bridge ED designs (if for no other reason that its 3oz lighter).So I think a better mental model is a Legend 8x42 with ED glass and perhaps slightly better coatings. Probably a closed-bridge design.I think Bushnell have a sensible "pile it high; sell 'em cheap". After all Hawke must have though the Frontier ED fairly priced at $429 before it go the rave reviews <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> I think the more interesting question might be how this affects Vortex. Precisely which model do Vortex see as competing with this? I don't see one right now as the Viper seems closer but is $200 more. Perhaps the currently mythical unreleased Vortex Dragon (the obvious name for a Chinese ED right <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ) that they can't possibly comment on right now.This sort of thing is the disruptive change in the binocular industry that I commented on about 6 months ago.The new Nikon Monarch I would guess is not ED. New mechanical design and perhaps newer coatings and perhaps an EP redesign for a bigger FOV. But that's all speculation.</blockquote>

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