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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sancho" data-source="post: 3628830" data-attributes="member: 27039"><p>That about sums up my disease too, Sir Ivadafew. 15 years and about 47 binoculars later (and that's just the ones I can remember), I use Mulligatawny's 'old' Nikon SE 8x32. Does more than it says on the tin. But the angst only began to wane when my eagerness to rush off 'twitching' or scouring headlands at migration times waned first. Now I look at birds, through SE's, whenever the mood takes me, and I don't think about the binos. But it was an unhealthy and expensive obsession, possibly something subconscious that had nothing to do 'per se' with binoculars, a bit like hoarders or whatever. Or maybe some of us just fall for the marketing hype more easily. In any case, it's nice to know that the MHG are so well thought-of by calm and rational folk like Chuck. If I were 'starting out', I'm sure that's what I'd buy.</p></blockquote><p></p>