I think Nikon is doing themselves a dis-service by not marketing the SE binoculars to the hunting crowd (they only market them to the birders). I also don't like the idea of spending several hundred dollars on binos that are not waterproof, while I don't plan to toss my binos in the lake, it is comforting knowing that in a good rain storm they wont be ruined.

I have looked through the Nikon field scope 80mm and I can tell you that it is fantasic.