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Message: <blockquote data-quote="denco@comcast.n" data-source="post: 1637902" data-attributes="member: 25300">You know it surprised me to. Maybe the Bushnell 7x26 Custom Elite I got from Amazon.com was defective. I didn't think to try and exchange it. I think I will go over to Sportmans Warehouse and compare one to my Zeiss 8x20 Victory. I previously had compared the Bushnell to a Pentax 9x28 and that's when I said it was SE like. I had not compared it to the Zeiss or Leica 8x20 yet. This is what I said then:"I went over to Sportman's Warehouse and compared the Pentax 9x28 and the Bushnell 7x26 Custom Elite and really there was no comparison. The Bushnell is smaller, it's focus way superior being amazingly smooth. The Pentax focus is WAY to hard! In fact I could barely turn it. The eyecups on the Bushnell work like silk. The ER on the Pentax is better or longer. When it comes to optics the Bushnell really is way superior to the Pentax. It is brighter, has a larger FOV, sharper on-axis, way sharper at the edge and has superior contrast. The build quality on the little Bushnell's really is good. The Bushnell comes with nice straps and really a nice case. In fact the Bushnell's optics are like a little Nikon SE. Sharp as a tack right to the edge and bright as heck like most porro-prisms. For about the same money the Bushnell is really a better bargain although they are not waterproof like the Pentax's. It depends how important that is to you which you would choose.</blockquote>

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