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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CLRobles" data-source="post: 1510985" data-attributes="member: 76360">This may be true but in 35+ years of hunting everywhere from Alaska to virtually every western state, Mexico, South Africa, and Tanzania I have been in some of the worst weather mother nature can dish out from -45 degrees at 12000+ feet in Colorado Rockies to 120+ heat in the Sonoran Desert. I have been Snowed on over a foot while glassing for Mule deer at in 10000 ft bowls, rained on like it was Noah's flood in the Kaibab, and chasing Texas white tail in humidity that made me think I never got out of the shower! One thing that I had in common in all these places were my optics. I regularly pack a 10x42, either a 12x50 or a 15x60, and always my trusty Swarovski CTC-75 with a bogen tripod w/pistol grip. I glass at least 60 to 75 days a year, at least! I have already spent weeks behind my new SE's (which I love and am rapidly becoming a "True Believer" in). I know good optics! I worked for Swarovski for two years! And I have spent many, many days behind binoculars in every condition you can imagine and I have never filled the ocular with standing water and just let them sit that way? Why would you even let that happen? In addition, and I'm not a engineer but I can tell you that the ocular and objective lenses are very well sealed. The tolerances here are incredibly small. The area where Poro's are not sealed as well is in there external focusing area but they are sealed to a point. I have used my Docter Optic 15x60's in some of the wettest days imaginable and they never had any water or dust get inside of them! The Docter's had an almost identical focusing system as the SE's And I'm just going to bet the Nikon's are built with better tolerances. So, not to sound like a jerk but I think these and most high end poros are much, much hardier than you think and I have seen it first hand. The last thing I would want is to have a very expensive trip ruined because my Docter 15x60's became useless due to water damage! And that has never happened to me or anyone else I know using these glass or the Zeiss 15x60 equivalent. As stated before in one of my posts I intend on using my 10x42SE's this entire fall and winter regardless of weather conditions and we will see how they hold up? I already have a pretty good feeling for them though because I have already had them soaked pretty good here the last month and other than as I stated before all they needed was a little cleaning and they look as good as new!</blockquote>

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