Check out nikon prostaff's, bushnell legends (3-9x50 = $150), oh and definitily check out sightron, like deerandbearhog suggested. Sightron uses the same lenses as leupold's just differant crystals, i have a pair of sightron sII binoculars and i love em, they are amazingly clear and only cost me $80. I have yet to hear anything bad about these scopes.

www.sightron.com