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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tero" data-source="post: 1395026" data-attributes="member: 3367">Well, I tend to side with the 10x:ers for birding part of the time. I like it for sparrows in winter, I can ID them with some accuracy at 10x, and not haul the scope around. And sometimes, you just get thatone look and the bird is gone by the time you set up the scope.I missed several warblers due to the narrow 315ft field I have become used to at 10x, so there I switch to 8x for most of May.I only have two pairs of 10x and they are at home, and two pairs of 8x in the car at all times. The 8x also travel more. So the 8x end up seeing more action by default.The Promaster 10x have taken me slightly more in the 10x camp. I can hold them steady at the distance I see sparrows, and I have not missed a bird in winter with anyof my 10x.The hunting question had more to do with how well you need to ID. The animals tend to be bigger than our birds and I do undestand the points on the antlers business, but still, if I were to take up hunting, I would get the best 8x32 to do the job.</blockquote>