Thread: What Binoculars are you using?

@Beetroot here's my take on Binos: I was very lucky to be blessed with great eyesight and natural spotting ability. Very ordinary binos did fine for me, I could out-spot anyone. Over time like I found, your eyesight too will deteriorate and you will be forced to buy better binos to compensate, so you might as well buy them now and shoot more game each year than you would with the poorer ones - meaning that they more than pay you back for the extra outlay.
Regarding magnification I have used 16 power Nikons (which I bought for reading eartags) for hunting with great success, a mates 15 power rangefinder leicas (impressive), 8 x 50 or60 east german jobs for hunting at night and now 10 power Swaro EL's. I wouldn't go below 10 power and in fact 12 would be fine. I don't need a big field of view because I am looking in the right place where I expect to see game, that is a big part of spotting game - looking at the country before you start glassing and saying to yourself 'where are the places that will hold game' and looking there.
What the Swaro EL and top leicas give you is colour definition and image sharpness, like R93 said the ability to see and identify a small piece of an animal like and ear or hoof.
They are expensive, so if at this point you can't justify that investment buy a pair of the top grade Deltas off Sarvo - I think around $400. They are not as good as the Leicas and the Swaros but they are better than all the in between binos that cost a lot more.