Thread: budgety spotting scope

Come to the realisation that I probably need to get a spotting scope for the alpine stuff, thinking probably around a $1000 budget. probably looking at the leupold sx-2 alpine but I've also seen the bushnell 20-60 for around $700, and that would give me more money to spend on a lightweight tripod, I've also seen the vortex but I'm probably just going to go the leupold, anybody got personal experience with these particular models or any other recommendations that I've missed? cheers fellas