Best hunting binoculars

It’s our Fieldtester binoculars survey. We sent out the survey during coronavirus lockdown and got more than 3,500 responses. Of these, we had over 600 responses to our binoculars survey.

And the results? You certainly spend money on optics. Around half of you own one of the three most expensive brands: Zeiss, Swarovski, or Leica – the blue, the green and the red. Here are the winners:

Now what do you use your binos for?

 

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Here are the prizes for your favourite model. We asked you to give us star rating for your binos. And these are the winners:

Now the big one. Your favourite binos, in three categories.

Winner in the under-£500 category: Vortex Diamondback is the most popular, with Zeiss Terra in second and Nikon Monarch in third

Winner in the £500-£1,500 category: it’s a dead heat between the Swarovski SLC and the Zeiss Conquest, with the Leica Trinovid in third place

And there are three contenders for the over £1,500 category: in third place, the Zeiss Victory series does well. Second place goes to the Leica Geovid. The winner – and the overall winner of all categories – is the Swarovski EL

There’s a ton more information about binos and you can find it on the <a href=”http://Fcha.nl/fieldtester”>Fieldtester</a> pages of our website.