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  1. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    I'm going to go ahead and apologize now for the comment I made, it it detracts from the myth of southern hospitality that many seem to believe in. I still grow very tired of the comments that if others could afford them they would all buy them, but the comment was beneath me. Sorry Dennis.
  2. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    Once they told him his chest swelled with pride. 3:-) :-O Jesus Christo, I wouldnt have believed an adult would type that out.
  3. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    Got cha, eye relief is a big bugaboo for me. With some of my eyeglasses 18 mm on a binocular is just barely doable. Thats one reason me and the conquest got along so well. I think the fly in the ointment of Chinese optics is the consistency of their offerings. You may get one that matches the...
  4. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    Check out the prime HD's if you can. Impressive.
  5. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    But what it sounds like to me as the reader is if someone says they really cant see an appreciable difference between a Leup GR (or Zen Prime HD) and a Swaro optically that they have some form of agenda and are just denying the obvious that any intelligent person can see. And the fallacy that...
  6. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    Was something to witness, and I think you are correct.
  7. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    You nailed it.
  8. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    I'm glad, because I take you at your word that you can see the difference. Just like I take my wife at her word that she can see the colors differently. I just dont, but even if I did I might not spend the extra dollars.
  9. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    Oh thats gonna leave a mark.
  10. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    3:-)
  11. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    This coming from the Cat who admitted he used a Bushnell Elite. :-O (hey, them old elites are good stuff, the new ones arent bad)
  12. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    I have tried them all, I live about 5 miles from SWFA, what I'm saying is I cant tell more than a very little difference between a Conquest and a SV, and I really cant tell any difference optically in a Prime and a Conquest. The Conquest is smoother and better put together. I know you think I am...
  13. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    I think maybe it happens as we get older, some sooner than others and some are never afflicted (my wife, rather buy the grandkids something than spend it on herself). I have the half of the upper shelf of my gun safe filled with various wristwatches. Most havent seen the light of day in a year...
  14. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    This sums it up perfectly to me. Everyone has something they probably obsess over. For me optics are very interesting, but not an obsession. My wife is that way with wristwatches. I was trying to buy her a very nice watch (Omega Constellation) and she said heck no. So we bought her a very nice...
  15. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    Agreed, I think the alphas are a niche market, there may be status in the upper realms of the alphas but the money is in the lower to mid range stuff. So what we see is lower to mid range. After using the ZenRay prime HD's for a few months, they have the ability to produce anything they want to...
  16. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    I would take that as an indication that swaro is using some Hoya glass. How much and in what, we will likely never know.
  17. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    Thank you,
  18. perterra

    Leupold Gold Ring HD 8x32 versus SV 8x32

    From a business viewpoint it would be hard to justify spending the millions required to produce no more units of binoculars than they were producing. If they were mfg binos in the USA they were losing a shoebox full of money on every unit they sold. From the past I believe I have read from...
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