CorbLand
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A family member has the Razors and we spent about 15 or so days together on a couple sheep hunts. It was night and day different on what I can find in my NLs. I was glassing them up at a mile plus and even when I walked him into them, he couldn’t really see them that well.Completely agree with this statement, the standard Razor HD's pale in comparison with anything that's remotely "alpha." For a grand, the Razor HD's are still a good buy (especially on sale or during Vortex month or used), and I'm not in the camp who calls them worthless or tells people they're junk. But they're nowhere near the performance of any of the Alpha glass or Alpha-Minus glass. Good for what they are, but let's call a spade a spade, they're a solid option for a working-class stiff or a guy who is building a kit and is slowly upgrading gear. My now 20 year old brother got a pair working at Sportsman's with me between high school and college, and they've been great for him in the interim. But he is fast to admit they're not the "end all be all" of the binocular world.
I am color blind to, so finding animals that have evolved to blend in is hard to begin with.