You know name recognition is a funny thing. Nikon riflescopes as well as their spotting scopes are made by Light Optical...coincidentally these same people make Items for Bushnell and Bausch and Lomb(when they existed).They probably make Cabelas Alaskan and Guide series scopes also and they also make Weaver Scopes so please tell me the difference between all these brands? The correct answer is none there is just variations in weight,length and eye relief on all of them. I purchased a 3x9 monarch a month ago because the truth is I never owned one before. I mounted it on my ruger no 1 in 280 and took it to the range...nice clear scope but it looks thick and bulky and cheap compared to my Leupolds...The eye relief sucks and the windage and elevation adjustments are cheap also. It was sent back and replaced with a VX II 3x9 and it is maybe not as clear as that Nikon but it is lighter has way better eye relief and fits the gun and is brighter than I'll ever need in any hunting situation. It is easy to make a long scope better optically the trick is making it shorter and same optical quality with more eye relief. Up until this newest release of the Conquest series the eye relief on Zeiss's were abysmal and still are on their high end scopes the same can be said for the rest of the German/Austrian scopes in general. The COnquest has 4" eye relief which is an improvement over previous versions but in my opinion will not balance correctly on your Titanium rifle. If you spend 1000 dollars for a factory lightweight you should at least add lightweight components to the gun...ie COnetrol or Gentry rings...Leupold 2.5x8x36 would be the heaviest scope I would put on it anything else and you threw away a bunch of money.Thats my .02 on the matter.