I'm the lone dissenter on the loopy's it looks like. I have a pair of the cascades and they sit it my truck. The pair I grab when I head out the door to hunt are a pair of Brunton Eterna 7x42's. These are the older style Eterna's, not the new model. No one who has looked through both have ever thought the loopy's had better glass in them. The Brunton's aren't top end bino's by any stretch of the imagination, but they are alot better to my eye than my pair of loopy's. YMMV
I personally wouldn't buy a pair of bino's without looking through them first. If your local shop won't let you look through them outside, I'd try to find one that will let you.